9/11 where were you?

I’ve just watched the 102 minutes documentary, which I’ve not seen before. No narration, just the entire morning as it happened.

I was 31 then. I’m I’m still around at 81 I’ll never cease to be shocked by those scenes.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
I’ve just watched the 102 minutes documentary, which I’ve not seen before. No narration, just the entire morning as it happened.

I was 31 then. I’m I’m still around at 81 I’ll never cease to be shocked by those scenes.
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I had a connection with 9/11 which I got consent to talk about last year - see my book Parallax 9/11 Part One: The Silent Assassin available widely, and on Amazon. A Mancunian slant on events.
(Hope this is ok Ric)
 
east2 said:
20 years today, I remember it like yesterday.

Working in the aircraft industry, driving along the M60 a colleague called me “have you heard the news? He asked.
“Don’t tell me! Kevin Keegan has walked!?” I said…
“ No… a 767 has just hit the World trade centre tower!”
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Just seen this thread.
Looked at page 1 and saw your original message.

Bizarrely, I was also on the M60 when I heard.

Me and my mate were doing deliveries for my mates Dads business.
We decided to bin off working (late teens so didn’t care) and go back to his and watch it on the news.

Mad day.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Just flew a 9/10 flight from Chicago to New Delhi. Arrived in India at around 9pm on 9/11. Never feels good to be flying on 9/11, but if you have to, flying a loooong way to the east makes it about as short as it can get!
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I hope this isnt too difficult a question, and i understand if you feel its inappropriate and dont wish to answer.....but how did 9/11 affect you as a pilot...and an American pilot at that?

Ive always been "fascinated" by the events of that day and still regularly watch videos/documentaries etc....as laymen, we can only try to understand what it must have been like....but as a pilot, i suspect you have very different insight and knowledge. I mean, you can literally picture what it must have been like to have been in the cockpit of one of those planes.

Again, im not intending to offend or trigger a reaction, so I appreciate any feedback you might have.
 
I can recall it well .... i had just broke for dinner at the local postal sorting office and i was walking with a mate through the centre of LANCASTER lookin for a food shop or chippy, when we suddenly spotted a large gathering outside a shop ... when we got there it was a shop selling TV's etc, and of course the locals were all stood outside the window watching the drama unfold in New York!
 
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I was in my office when a colleague phoned me from another office and opened the conversation with the words “America is under attack”.
 
The conspiracy nuts are out in force today. They must just be waking up in various parts of America. People who were likely not even born peddling the hologram myth or the ‘planes weren’t there’ myth or the various other cunty bullshit they come out with.
 
This is probably stuff I shouldn't share, but I was in bed with a certain person, having just engaged in certain activities. (Don't ask for photos!). We were lying around, talking, and the phone rang. It so happens that the phone was right next to the bed. It was my wife. We'd been separated for quite a while, although we were not yet formally divorced. I was very surprised. She didn't often phone. She said “Are you watching this?” I said “What?” “Two planes have just flown into the two World Trade Centre towers”.
My initial reaction was that it was war, although it struck me as a very weird way to declare it.
I can remember three public events with crystal clarity, in terms of where I was. That one, hearing about the assassination of Kennedy, and hearing about the assassination of John Lennon.
I don't own a television set, and have never owned one. For my own reasons, which I don't wish to go into, I have never yet watched actual footage of the two planes going into the towers. My choice. (I've seen still photos of the collision).
Of course I recognise that it was a terrible tragedy.
 
Jimmieblue said:
Kissamos in Crete, along with tourists from all over, glued to news channels. Feels like the world has been different since that day.
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It really does. My kids and my partners kids were either too little to know about it or weren’t born. They’re all adults now in the main and when they see the clips, or me watching a doc on it, they can’t actually believe it’s real.

They also can’t believe what we had as recording technology. I can’t even begin to imagine the footage if it was in this era of video phones and the like.
 
Left the glaziers doing their work,all day they said,picked up my sister to take her to work,listening to 261,brief report that a small plane had hit the tower,dropped sister off headed home,more and more reports,,glaziers heard nowt ,put TV on and called them in,we never moved out of the living room till gone five,awesomeviewing.
 
Working at Tesco Prestwich - at the time they had a TV aisle so watched the aftermath of the plane strikes there
 
High school summer holidays, eating chicken and mushroom pot noodle toasted sandwiches (i made it myself, le chef) Listening to Mark and Lard and playing Silent Hill. Tuned in to hear them saying weren't doing their usual style of show in light of what's happened in New York. Turned off game, turned on Sky, saw the tower billowing smoke. About 5 minutes later the second plane hit.
 
At work.
Myself and colleagues had appointments with people about every half hour or so, and so kept getting updates from them as events unfolded. Honestly thought at one point that the person who told me the towers had collapsed was either a nut job,pissed or taking it. Possibly all three.

Until at the end of the afternoon appointments we went into the staff room and saw the pictures on the tele. Think I walked home in a daze. It was both surreal and mind blowing that it could happen in NY.
 
wahablue said:
Left the glaziers doing their work,all day they said,picked up my sister to take her to work,listening to 261,brief report that a small plane had hit the tower,dropped sister off headed home,more and more reports,,glaziers heard nowt ,put TV on and called them in,we never moved out of the living room till gone five,awesomeviewing.
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Not so sure it was awesome viewing. It certainly wasn’t awesome watching people having to jump out of the towers or burn death instead.
 
On couch watching it on TV. I'd torn ligaments in my foot/ankle day before playing football so was off work sick
 
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