Airplane fragment in patriotic box
date: label: Date made
content: 2001
name: label: maker
content: Elgas, G. Penny
notes: label: Description
content: Description: Penny Elgas built a patriotic box to preserve this piece of American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
label: Description
content: Context: Driving on a highway adjacent to the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, Penny Elgas stopped as she saw a passenger jet descend, clip a light pole near her, and then crash into the Pentagon. Arriving home, Elgas found this plane fragment in the back seat of her car (she theorizes that it dropped through the open sunroof). Feeling that it was her patriotic duty to preserve the fragment as a relic, she crafted a special box and lined it with red, white, and blue material.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated
content: United States: Virginia, Pentagon
title: label: Title
content: Airplane fragment in patriotic box
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the Pentagon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: G. Penny Elgas
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0058.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0058
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0058.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 18 in x 6 in; 63.5 cm x 45.72 cm x 15.24 cm