In a logical world, overhead means.. well,... *overhead*. It doesn't mean *in the sky over t my right* or *in the sky over to my left*, or anything else. It means exactly that... *overhead*, as in "above my head".
Actually, Unchained Spirit, I'm not sure what you mean by "a logical world". I know of no such place. I do know the World in which we live our lives, however, which is the one I think you're alluding to. In which case, I'd argue that, on the whole, "overhead" means exactly what you say it doesn't: "in the sky over to my right", "... over to my left", etc. You've not interacted with the general public much in your 45 years, it seems.
But if you want to argue semantics I'll indulge you for a moment:
From my experience (I'll be 45 next, too) planes have to travel generally forwards, and at relatively high speed, to stay up. I could go on to explain to you why that is, but I reckon you already agree. Any plane that is "overhead", to use your definition, will be so for, oh, typically a fraction of a second. At all times before it becomes "overhead" and after it has been "overhead", which is all of the time other than that fraction of a second, it is, using your definition, most definitely
not "overhead".
Now, do you wish to press your argument, which places complete reliance on your, clearly, flawed definition of "overhead"? Be my guest, please.
You should really look up the accounts of John Fleegle, Jim Brant and Carol Delasko, from the Indian Lake Marina:
""All of a sudden the lights flickered and we joked that maybe they were coming for us. Then we heard engines screaming close overhead. The building shook. We ran out, heard the explosion and saw a fireball mushroom," said Fleegle, pointing to a clearing on a ridge at the far end of the lake.
Delasko, who ran outside moments later, said she thought someone had blown up a boat on the lake. "It just looked like confetti raining down all over the air above the lake," she said."
http://www.flight93crash.com/MyPittsburghLIVE.htm
Do you have any idea what went over the marina & lake? I'd like to know, wouldn't you?
"Then we heard engines screaming close overhead." These guys are inside a building and you're arguing that their account of a noise places the plane "overhead" (your definition, which surely, in any event, relies on a visual)!
"We ran out, heard the explosion and saw a fireball mushroom." So these guys never saw a plane at all, they just heard one, "close overhead"!
"... who ran outside moments later". That would be after the explosion then, long
after the plane was "overhead", then, would it, i.e. no longer overhead?!
Get real buddy.
