Transcript of Aldo Marquis' Interview with Roosevelt Roberts

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CIT:
Let me, let me just ask you a couple of quick questions, there was mainly a couple of specific things. When you, you had mentioned, right as you hung up the phone, you ran outside..Which parking lot, which dock were you at?

Roosevelt Roberts:
I was in south parking, and I was at the [east?] loading dock, when I ran outside and saw the low flying aircraft above the parking lot.

CIT:
Okay, was it a, was it a....a... jet, or was it a... do you remember what kind of plane it was?

Roosevelt Roberts:
Looked like to me at that time....a large aircraft liner, it wasn't a jet, it was a commercial aircraft.

CIT:
Okay, did it have propellers or did it have jet engines?

Roosevelt Roberts:
It looked like jet engines at that time

CIT:
Jet engines, okay. So, how close were you to running outside, because this seemed to be pretty quick, at least from your account sounded like, it sounded like, literally, the explosion happened and then you ran outside, I mean do you remember how many seconds it was when, you heard the explosion and then saw that plane?

Roosevelt Roberts:
From the sound of the explosion hit till I ran outside....it's a loading dock, and you can run right out to the (inaudible) look out and look off. Then you see the flickering lights inside the area, and then real quick I realize it was some sort of attack and there was going to be a countermeasure with it.

CIT:
Right, so how many seconds would you guess?

Roosevelt Roberts:
Maybe...10 seconds tops.

CIT:
10 seconds tops?

Roosevelt Roberts:
10 seconds tops. Before impact I stepped out the little booth that I was in and the distance between that booth and the edge of that dock is about maybe I don't know like 7 steps away from there.

CIT:
Wow.

Roosevelt Roberts:
So ... extremely close. You could see that plane just as clear as day, couldn't miss it

CIT:
What color was it, do you remember?

Roosevelt Roberts:
It was....To me at that time it looked like it was silver in color.

CIT:
Like silver in color, but you saw it over the south parking lot.

Roosevelt Roberts:
Right and it was like banking, just above the light poles like, had to been no more than, had to been no more than 50 feet less than a 100 feet.

CIT:
Wow.

Roosevelt Roberts:
Cause it banked out, and it was like u-turning, coming around and coming out, it looked like, [for a brief second?] it looked like it, it, uh....
How am I gonna say this...it missed the wrong target, and it's going like out of the way like back to the airport or something like that.

CIT:
Oh like, so it's headed the towards the airport it looked like..

Roosevelt Roberts:
Well no, not heading towards the airport, it's almost like if uh.. if a pilot missed his (inaudible) he'll try to do a banking and coming around because he missed the target, he missed the landing zone.

CIT:
Got it, got it. And you're, you're, are you a hundred percent sure it was a jet, an actual jet plane?

Roosevelt Roberts:
Commercial aircraft.

CIT:
Commercial aircraft, okay.