IntroductionLaura said:There are several of these links that bring up errors, they no longer exist on the web. It would be useful if anyone could find them archived somewhere and if a thread has not been created for that witness, to create one in the same style.
James Ryan is the first witness mentioned on Michael Rivero's "whatreallyhappened" which Laura refers to. The sound links do not work and I have tried to find them but no luck yet. However there are written transcribed versions that refer to sound clips or the sound clips that do not work. Apparently they should be stored on French server
There are four versions. - Thorborn
[First account of James Ryan]
From: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/F77penta03.html#AAFA
Ryan, James
I live a couple of miles from the Pentagon and my car wasn't starting so I was looking for a garage, a mechanic to fix my car. This place was on Columbia Pike. So I went to Columbia Pike. And so I left there and then that's when I saw what I saw; I saw the plane, was on my way home.
What made me look up was the sound. Because typically you hear planes flying over and they make a steady sound like "shhhhhhhhhhh," when they're coming to land, it's pretty steady. Well I heard [making a buzzing sound that drops in pitch] and so I looked up. And when I looked up . . . on my left . . . I see an American Airlines plane, silver plane, I could see "AA" on the tail. I noticed the landing gear was up. And the airport's over here . . . the planes are landing this way, typically [pointing in the opposite direction]. And so he's going in the wrong direction.
Meanwhile I had just heard about what happened at the World Trade Center. So . . . immediately I thought, 'This is all wrong. Everything about it is wrong. The sound of the engine is wrong. The place of the plane is wrong. It's way too low, it's right here and there's no landing gear down, so how can it land?'
Question: How high he was?
RJ: Within a hundred feet. It was very low. At that point he tilted his wings, this way and then this way. Kind of about this speed. He kind of did like that and it was, the plane was slow. So that happened concurrently with the engines going down. . . . and then straightened out sort of suddenly and hit full gas. . . . It was so loud it hurt my ears. It was just so loud. . . . and he just went straight in at that point and I just screamed . . . because I thought, there was nothing I could do, I wanted to throw a rock at it or something. It was awful.
Question: And you saw it hit the Pentagon?
RJ: No at that point it went down because I was approaching a hill. And at that point it went straight down over the hill and a moment later I heard this terrific boom!, a very deep boom! sound, and then immediately I saw all the orange and yellow sort of ball of fire and then thick black smoke go up in to the air. . . .
The plane was low enough that I could see the windows in the plane, I could see every detail of the plane. In my head I have ingrained forever this image of every detail of that plane. . . .
It was a silver plane, American Airlines plane, I recognized it immediately as a passenger plane.
Real Player (video): "Ryan",
http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan2.ram
Digipresse, 5/22//02 (low bandwidth recording)
http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan.ram
[Second account of James Ryan]
http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/JoeR/911_dump_of_Pentagon_quotes.html
James Ryan, in his car:
"On my left, right above me - a little over. I see an American Airlines plane, silver plane, I could see AA on the tail. I noticed the landing gear was up...[How heigh was it] Within a hundred feet. It was very low. At that point he tilted his wings this way and this way (mimics), And the plane was slow, so that happened concurrently with the engines going down. (mimics) And then straightened out sort of suddenly and hit full gas. (mimics) It was so loud it hurt my ears. It was just so loud. He just went straight in at that point. ...[went over a hill and he heard an explosion]...The plane was low enough that I could see the windows of the plane. I could see every detail of the plane..."
(Digipresse interview) http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan2.ram
http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan.ram
[Third account of James Ryan]
http://mouv4x8.club.fr/11Sept01/A0082_b_They%20saw%20the%20aircraft.htm
James Ryan, 27, a former US Navy Attache, a computer company employee lives a couple of miles from the Pentagon. His car wasn't starting so he was on Columbia Pike, looking for a mechanic to fix it. Looking up overhead to his left, he saw:
"A silver plane; I could see 'AA' on the tail, I noticed the landing gear was up..."
how high he was?(sic)
"within a hundred feet it was very low At that point he tilted his wings, this way [right wing down] and then this way. [left wing down] .... and then straightened out suddenly and hit full gas ... so loud it hurt my ears
"The plane was low enough I could see the windows in the plane .. every detail of the plane.
"A silver plane, an American Airlines plane; I recognised it immediately as a passenger plane."
In an interview he imitates the sound of the plane:
Recorded interview - quick load / May 2002.
http://trans.voila.fr/ano?anolg=65544&anourl=http%3A%2F%2Fdigipressetmp3.teaser.fr%2Fuploads%2F488%2FRyan.ram
Recorded interview - best quality / May 2002.
http://trans.voila.fr/ano?anolg=65544&anourl=http%3A%2F%2Fdigipressetmp3.teaser.fr%2Fuploads%2F488%2FRyan2.ram
[Fourth account of James Ryan]
http://www.911-strike.com/eyewitness_vague.htm :
He tilted his wings, this way and in this way (Ryan mimics). He kinda did like that. At that point the plane was slow, so that happened concurrently with the engines going down. And then straighten up in sort of suddenly and hit full gas. (Ryan mimics). It was just so loud.(Video)
low bandwidth : http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan.ram
high bandwidth : http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan2.ram
[T: comment from www.911-strike.com: Ryan's video interview is interesting, but he wasn't in position to see the final approach.]