Keith Noble, who took photos, said he first saw it flying out over the water and was "struck by its vivid colour".
Mike Russell, a tutor at the trust, saw the osprey flying over Woods Mill in Henfield, searching for fish.
"I was standing outside having a cigarette when I saw the helicopter flying super fast towards the crane, " said Rezart Islami, a builder who was working across the street from the 52-story building.
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When I think of what I saw men and women doing in my own childhood I can say women were teachers and when I got on an airplane and saw who was flying it was definitely a man.
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We saw some beaches flying over.
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Rabab Rifaat, a woman shopping nearby, told the Associated Press news agency she heard a loud "boom", and saw a severed head flying through the air.
Aaron Jesse, 47, said he had left work early for a round with friends at Westlake Golf Course and saw the low-flying plane hit a tree, spin around 180 degrees and land surprisingly gently.
Since 1999, when Cirrus began selling FAA-certified airplanes, the company has attracted a different kind of owner-pilot. (Disclosure: I own and fly a Cirrus.) Many of us never thought of flying a small airplane until we saw a Cirrus.
There are things that happened on this mission that the press really latched on to: the gap filler sticking out, the fact that we had great video of the belly of the shuttle and saw the little pieces flying off.
The regional airport saw the number of people flying to and from the city grow by 1.8% in August after consecutive falls in the previous six months.
Travelers flying between Denver and Houston-Bush saw a 57% jump, and the Newark-San Francisco route recorded a 50% increase between the third quarter of 2009 and the third quarter of 2012, according to average-fare data compiled by Oliver Wyman.
"We're used to low-flying jets around here, " said George Pilkington, who saw the jet fly over his truck.
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The second half saw more of the same with Sean Davis' flying header drawing a great save from Stephen Bywater.
That's how I saw myself, and imagining the speed, imagining Joey Buckley flying beside me, our hands on the wheels, ready to stop on a dime, I decided we'd do just that we'd race down the hill this morning, early, before too many people were sitting around the courtyard on such a fine day.
"I heard both the pilot and a flight attendant say that they had been flying for 20 or 30 years and had never seen anything like what they saw today, " he said.
It was there that Jared Graves of Australia, sitting just behind the Latvian, saw his chances bite the dust when he was brought down by the flying bike of crashing South African Sifiso Nhlapo.
But somewhere in the hills of western Pennsylvania, in the dark, we saw a convoy of four or five emergency vehicles from Chicago, American flags flying, pass us as they sped to Ground Zero.
Mr Cook said he saw news of the helicopter crash later that day, which contained suggestions of engine problems and erratic flying.
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