CLAIM: No airplane debris was found at the site of the Pentagon attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
\n\nAP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Security camera footage from the Pentagon shows American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the building, and photos from that day document an array of debris from the plane at the crash site.
\n\nTHE FACTS: As the 21st anniversary of 9/11 was observed on Sunday, an old, false claim reemerged on social media saying no airplane debris was found at the Pentagon after the building was attacked.
\n\n“Never forget no plane debris was found at the Pentagon,” one Instagram post reads. “There is no CCTV footage & trillions went missing from the budget.”
\n\n“I know 0 intelligent people who believe a high jacked plane flew into the side of the pentagon leaving no plane debris or video evidence. Only sheep,” stated a Twitter post using three sheep emoji instead of the word sheep.
\n\nFootage from two Pentagon security cameras outside the building shows the American Airlines flight crashing into the Pentagon. The footage was released by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2006 after conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request two years earlier, the Associated Press…
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