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"Thank God they didn't release the entire video of the plane smashing into the Pentagon!"

As a matter of fact, the sequence shown IS the entire video. The plane was going too fast to be photographed between frames. The video surveillance camera apparently takes about 100 pictures a second, if these five sequential pictures were taken in 4/100ths of a second, according to the story.

The first frame shows no plane crash; the second frame, taken at about 1/100th of a second later, shows the explosion.

So the plane traversed the entire field of view of the camera between the first and second frames in less than 1/100th of a second.

This does not seem possible. I tend to think that the story is in error and the camera possibly takes only 60 pictures a minute (one per second). This would leave a full second for the plane to cross the entire field of view without being photographed. I' m not sure at what speed the plane would have to be flying to accomplish that.

There is so much bogus with that I don't even know where to start. First of all, if this took 15 fps it would be fluid... a video, not 5 shots extracted from different parts of the video to prove the case. Second of all the pictures have 4 seconds on the time code. Third, from the Yahoo article:

Officials could not immediately explain why the date typed near the bottom of each photograph is Sept. 12 and the time is written as 5:37 p.m. The attack happened at about 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11. Officials said it was possible that the date and time were added the day after the attack when they may have been catalogued for investigative purposes.

The screw ups in the time code are irrelevant... a red herring. Obviously, an explosion happened... question is if it was a demolition contingency plan or a plane.

Obviously the Pentagon has better footage than this amateurish web cam looking charade. The fact they aren't sharing it (and also the Black Box and Voice recorder) are conclusive in and of itself.

Yes, I think you may be on to something about the possibility that this was a time-delayed security camera. I read somewhere in Oct, thereabouts, that a security video tape from a gas station overlooking the Pentagon taped the whole thing. FBI took it. In addition, I would think that the US Navy Annex, a sprawling complex up the street from the Pentagon, and overlooking the area of impact, must have some sort of video survelliance equipment that captured some or part of the fatal flight.