9/11 where were you?

AlexWilliamsGloves said:
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.
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I think everyone involved in the aviation industry were stunned. One can only imagine what was going on on the flight decks(many of the recordings are in the public domain).

Spare a thought for the Air Traffic Controllers who were trying to react effectively but with little definite information and whilst still handling all of the other aircraft in their sectors. It's probably not widely realised that when AA11 was hijacked, the controller asked UA175 if he had the AA11 in sight, he had and reported it back. A few seconds later UA175 was hijacked and became the 2nd aircraft to crash into the WTC.

A terrible day for aviation and it changed it for ever.
 
I was working in San Francisco and that Tuesday morning was in the office before 6am. Had nothing more than an inflatable mattress and a radio left in the house we were renting as the wife, dog and furniture had been carted off back to Toronto the previous Saturday. I was due to fly back on the Thursday.
The missus phoned just after the first plane hit - the internet had already ground to a halt and I was speaking to her when the second plane hit. Most arrived at the office unaware and immediately left to collect their kids. I left the office and driving down San Mateo Hill witnessed what was probably the last inbound foreign flight to land at SFO - a South Korean 747, flanked by two USAF fighters.
With airspace closed and being out of the rented gaff, I had to spend 3 nights on a mates couch before managing to get a seat on Air Canada Sunday night red eye - the eeriest flight ever.

25 years ago and I remember it as if were yesterday.
 
It was my 25th wedding anniversary, I shall be in New York just after they commemorate the 25th. Having a Golden Wedding cruise on QM2 double crossing arriving in NY on the 12th September.
 
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in Currys. The woman in shop said wow look at all the paper coming out of the tower....I was like wtf....
 
Was in the gym

Just started divorcing the first wife, it took 5 years the bitch, and was trying to get trim for the next chapter of my life

Remember watching it all unfold on the screens in the gym and everyone just stopped what they were doing in an instance

Very surreal
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
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.
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I went up One World Trade Centre in May to the lookout point. Amazing views but couldn't help but stand there looking down and imagining the horror and the people that had to make the decision to jump.

Anyway, when I got home I started to watch videos again on YouTube and Instagram. They still pop up now and I get drawn into the comments and it's fuckin crazy what people say. The hologram and AI ones especially. And people asking "if they are planes, why didn't they bounce off because a plane can't pierce through concrete and steel."
There's numerous other ones that I can't think of right now, but I sit there reading them like wow, what the fuck.
 
Fourinarow said:
I went up One World Trade Centre in May to the lookout point. Amazing views but couldn't help but stand there looking down and imagining the horror and the people that had to make the decision to jump.

Anyway, when I got home I started to watch videos again on YouTube and Instagram. They still pop up now and I get drawn into the comments and it's fuckin crazy what people say. The hologram and AI ones especially. And people asking "if they are planes, why didn't they bounce off because a plane can't pierce through concrete and steel."
There's numerous other ones that I can't think of right now, but I sit there reading them like wow, what the fuck.
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Same. It’s the old algorithms. Like you, I go straight to the comments. Most of it is for the shock tactic to piss people off, but there are some who genuinely believe it. Another one is that the planes had no markings and must be grey military ones.

When they’re challenged about how we all watched it on telly they revert to how the planes were put on the telly as holograms and were not real. When you challenge them about the thousands who watched it live from the streets, they’re crisis actors.

It’s a very sad world those cunts live in. A very sad fucking world indeed.

Cunts.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
10 years old and my dog died the same day.

9/11 was pretty much film script stuff, the most twisted of authors couldn't write it. It's on my bucket list to see Ground Zero, I feel like I have to.
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I went this summer while following City in the CWC. I’ve watched hundreds of 9/11 documentary’s and I become slightly obsessed with watching them every few years. So to visit NYC was a weird experience for me. When getting the subway to downtown, you get to street level and instantly see the freedom tower and you can’t help but picture the old towers next to it. It’s just a proper weird feeling. I can’t imagine what it would have been like being there on that day.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
Same. It’s the old algorithms. Like you, I go straight to the comments. Most of it is for the shock tactic to piss people off, but there are some who genuinely believe it. Another one is that the planes had no markings and must be grey military ones.

When they’re challenged about how we all watched it on telly they revert to how the planes were put on the telly as holograms and were not real. When you challenge them about the thousands who watched it live from the streets, they’re crisis actors.

It’s a very sad world those cunts live in. A very sad fucking world indeed.

Cunts.
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Absolute balloons mate. And all the gullable fuckers that believe all these ridiculous comments. And plenty of 'inside job, it was Israel, why have people got their cameras out ready knowing it's going to happen' comments.

Here's a couple of photos I took looking down. The ground zero one isn't great with the reflection but you get an idea. The water was off in them while they carried out some maintenance work.


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Fourinarow said:
Absolute balloons mate. And all the gullable fuckers that believe all these ridiculous comments. And plenty of 'inside job, it was Israel, why have people got their cameras out ready knowing it's going to happen' comments.

Here's a couple of photos I took looking down. The ground zero one isn't great with the reflection but you get an idea. The water was off in them while they carried out some maintenance work.


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Stunning photos.

It doesn’t even bear thinking about being that high and having to make that choice.

This is what those disrespectful cunts don’t realise when they post their shit.
 
For anyone visiting NYC and will be going to 9/11 Memorial, if you didn't know of it, I recommend visiting O'Hara's. It's quite a spectacle in there with all the emergency services badges all over the walls and memorabilia. And they do a cracking pint of Guinness.

On the second video it's worth turning off when he starts eating haha, but it gives a good view of what it's like.



 
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LangleyBlue1970 said:
Stunning photos.

It doesn’t even bear thinking about being that high and having to make that choice.

This is what those disrespectful cunts don’t realise when they post their shit.
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I went a year or so after. There was a massive hole in the far side which turned out to be the tube tunnel. You couldn't comprehend the size of the footprint. There was a small memorial/ museum which showed what they had done with the site so far. It was all very haunting.
 
In work. 20 minutes after the towers collapsed my line manager at the time said “anyway, dramas over, everybody get back to work”

Stupid bitch
 
BimboBob said:
I went a year or so after. There was a massive hole in the far side which turned out to be the tube tunnel. You couldn't comprehend the size of the footprint. There was a small memorial/ museum which showed what they had done with the site so far. It was all very haunting.
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I loathe to go the America, but if I do it will be because of this. Like many, I’m drawn to it. It’s very hard to explain but I guess there is a certain generation who watched that and knew the world had changed. 24 years is a long time.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
I loathe to go the America, but if I do it will be because of this. Like many, I’m drawn to it. It’s very hard to explain but I guess there is a certain generation who watched that and knew the world had changed. 24 years is a long time.
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I love going to the States. It's a wonderous place full of beautiful places and @idahoblues
 
The day started off for me being made redundant, so took my stuff and walked out. Went to my mum's for lunch to cheer myself up with her homemade stew. Sat down with the tray In front of the tele just as the reports were coming in to the BBC. I shouted to my mum in the kitchen as to what was happening and she just replied sorry we've only got tomato sauce. Its so wierd how I can remember every detail like it was yesterday.
 
I’d done camp America and after traveling around America I flew home from JFK on the Friday before. We’d been in the twin towers that Friday so seeing them collapse just 3/4 days later was just insane.

20 odd years later and still grips me the same way now it did back then.
 
I was valeting cars in Warrington and it had already been a bad start to the day stuck in traffic for something like 3 hours due to a crash on the motorway.

I had finished with a car and took the keys into the showroom where the salesman were all gathered around the TV. Within a few minutes we watched the second plane hit and it was a pretty crazy reaction from us all in disbelief at what was happening.

I've been pretty fascinated with it myself over the years, going to different spots around NYC in my 2 visits there and looking towards where the towers stood and imagining. And standing in areas similar to where footage was captured of the planes hitting and the towers collapsing. And of course feeling moments of absolute sorrow of how horrific it must have been, especially when you're up the One World Trade Centre looking down. It's hard to explain the feelings you get from visiting a place of horror, tragedy and human suffering. It was the same when I went to Auschwitz.
 
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