Pentagon helipad clock
Pentagon helipad clock
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- Description
- Description: This Skilcraft electric wall clock, which hung in the Pentagon helipad fire station, was knocked to the ground by the impact of American Airlines flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon.
- Context: When terrorists flew American Airlines flight 77 into the Pentagon, the crash nearly took the nearby Pentagon helipad firehouse with it. The concussion caused the ceiling of the firehouse to collapse, temporarily trapping firefighter Dennis Young in the fallen debris. The blast also knocked this clock from the wall, freezing it at 9:32. The airplane actually struck the Pentagon at 9:38 am; apparently the clock was six minutes slow.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Clock
- Date made
- 2000
- maker
- Skilcraft, The Chicago Lighthouse
- recovered
- United States: Virginia, Pentagon
- United States: Virginia, Pentagon
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in; x 3.175 cm x 31.75 cm
- ID Number
- 2002.0278.01
- accession number
- 2002.0278
- catalog number
- 2002.0278.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dennis C. Young
- subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- Attack on the Pentagon
- September 11th Attacks
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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