Video showing a plane crashing into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, was released publicly for the first time Tuesday, a judicial watchdog group said. The Justice Department has handed over tapes showing American Airlines Flight 77 striking the building outside Washington to Judicial Watch, a public interest group that requested the video, the group said. The video is available on the group's Web site, according to a news release from Judicial Watch. At least two tapes were released, from different security cameras. The two cameras, from the same Pentagon checkpoint, show the building from different angles, according to a report of CNN. Previously released still photographs from those cameras show the Pentagon on fire, but no images of the Boeing 757 striking the building have ever been made public. The video released Tuesday was the source of those still photos. In one clip, a police car passes in front of the security camera before a ball of flame and smoke erupts from the Pentagon in the background.
