out. we knew we thought is that where it s going? it kept coming. then at one point we got under a minute, and i said it s about 30 seconds out. faa control manager mike mccormick is on a teleconference call listening helplessly to a similar countdown. think started counting down ten miles to the white house, nine miles to the white house, eight miles to the white house. seems like more than 30 seconds. what do you got? we don t know. it dropped off our radar. american flight 77 did not hit the white house. instead it crashed into the pentagon. as for the fourth plane, the passengers on board united flight 93 made sure the terrorists wouldn t hit anything but a field in shanksville,