This is all gonna be news to my cousin in law, Mary. She was at work in the offices of the EPA in Crystal City on September 11 and saw the whole thing. She said it was a very large airplane, but she didn't know what type.

She watched the incident, grabbed her purse, and the next thing she remembers is being on the road to her daughter's school. Mary no longer will work "across the river" and now works out to the EPA offices in Maryland (where her home is).

Yes, a jet could travel that fast close to the ground if the pilot was suicidal -- which was the case here.