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TheBlackAdder

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24. They can shove that thermite up their asses. It was widely known that planes were easily hijacked.

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 02:27 PM

Sep 2020

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The weird thing was, as someone who got their pilots license in 1980, this was a probability at some time.

Heck, remember when Microsoft Flight Simulator came out? Everyone flew their planes into the wire-frame buildings. Microsoft later prevented that, but when it first came out, that's all people did at computer shows and at home.

People could fly their planes up the VFR corridor above the Hudson, and buildings were to the right and left, and everyone in aviation school would comment on what a risk that was. The movie 'Escape from New York' did it. This was a known exposure since the 70s and before and no one mandated anything differently.

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Tell me about your 9/11. [View all] nolabear Sep 2020 OP

Link to what I posted this morning. Zoonart Sep 2020 #1

Thanks. I hope others weigh in. Over time the absence of planes was so odd. nolabear Sep 2020 #2

Yes...that struck me too. Zoonart Sep 2020 #3

I was down with a migraine that morning. My boss called me at about 10:25 a.m. EDT catbyte Sep 2020 #4

This is a summary my wife and I prepared immediately after 9/11 to share with friends/family brooklynite Sep 2020 #5

What stunning accounts. Thank you. And thanks to Erika. nolabear Sep 2020 #20

Kudos for volunteering to help so quickly treestar Sep 2020 #32

Link Trumpocalypse Sep 2020 #6

I Was At The Airport ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #7

I was in an open floor plan US Marshals office on a federal complex when everyone's phones started NightWatcher Sep 2020 #8

I had been layed off on 9/10 Silent3 Sep 2020 #9

I was called to a tv screen. As best A business channel was on, [the old FNN?], which empedocles Sep 2020 #10

I was on a comuter train from Westchester County to my job in Manhattan. brush Sep 2020 #11

It was a clear, sunny morning, and I was driving to work The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #12

I was a high school librarian in Connellsville, PA. Freedomofspeech Sep 2020 #13

I was in bed, just a few months after emergency surgery - when Bill came in to tell me what happened Lucinda Sep 2020 #14

Saw both planes hit. People falling out. Lost some Port Authority friends and co-worker's brother. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #15

They apparently are still out there. So bizarre. nolabear Sep 2020 #21

They can shove that thermite up their asses. It was widely known that planes were easily hijacked. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #24

I worked in HR for a medium sized manufacturing company DeeNice Sep 2020 #16

Was at work TlalocW Sep 2020 #17

I had just arrived at work. Like you, I at first thought it was one of those things like what CTyankee Sep 2020 #48

Well, mine is a little different... Fix The Stupid Sep 2020 #18

I was coming in to work at a maximum security state prison in the Southwestern US Ron Green Sep 2020 #19

I was turning 1 x 10 spruce boards into onethatcares Sep 2020 #22

I woke up to my radio and could hear the distress in the person talking Beringia Sep 2020 #23

This is my story genxlib Sep 2020 #25

I walked to the college registrar to change a class that morning meadowlander Sep 2020 #26

On the West Coast musette_sf Sep 2020 #27

Yep. Keth Sep 2020 #28

I had jet-lag from a trans-Atlantic flight. PETRUS Sep 2020 #29

It was our 20th anniversary . . . Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #30

Still surreal dv421 Sep 2020 #31

Welcome to DU Hekate Sep 2020 #42

I was sick caraher Sep 2020 #33

NYC'r here. I got up late 10AM. Rushed out by electric_blue68 Sep 2020 #34

Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all the more. nolabear Sep 2020 #35

I was at work. Everyone was confused initially, everyone believed that Blue_true Sep 2020 #36

I'm in California and was in bed asleep. I didn't know about it till hours later. My Raine Sep 2020 #37

I was asleep when my daughter called me from her then-office commanding me to turn on CNN Hekate Sep 2020 #38

Was in the middle of getting ready for middle school sakabatou Sep 2020 #39

My experience vercetti2021 Sep 2020 #40

I slept through it in Las Vegas Awsi Dooger Sep 2020 #41

I asked this question of one one of my students 10 years ago tishaLA Sep 2020 #43

What an astounding story. Thank you! nolabear Sep 2020 #46

I was in Sprout City, so the first plane hit around 3 PM my time DFW Sep 2020 #44

The thing that sticks in my mind the most is what a gorgeous day it was. MissMillie Sep 2020 #45

DH and I were in Orlando, Florida Bettie Sep 2020 #47

I was in my office at Washington Plaza Old Terp Sep 2020 #49