Flightline: 9/11

"user314" (user314) 09/11/2020 at 08:46 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, 9/11, September 11

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N334AA, Boeing 767-223ER American Airlines Flight 11

N612UA, Boeing 767-222, United Airlines Flight 175

N644AA, Boeing 757-223, American Airlines Flight 77

N591UA, Boeing 757-200, United Airlines Flight 93

WTC Memorial Pools

The black granite Memorial Plaza and white marble Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial

The Names Of Those Lost

pip bip - choose Corrour > user314 09/11/2020 at 08:51

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scary its 19 years ago.

seems like it was only 12 months ago.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > user314 09/11/2020 at 09:06

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Right about now but 19 years ago I was properly drunk on work time and watching some frankly confronting television in a motel with colleagues in Lightning Ridge, NSW.

facw > user314 09/11/2020 at 09:06

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There’s a little visited 9/11 memorial at Logan Airport here in Boston

The two panels inside carry the names of those on AA11 and UA175 which departed from Logan.

ttyymmnn > user314 09/11/2020 at 09:20

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I visited the WTC Memorial last December for the first time. It’s a very powerful place. They have a section of the memorial presumably with videos from that fateful morning. They have trigger warning signs on the door. I chose not to go in. I still have many vivid memories of that day, and the days following, that I have no interest in reliving.

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 09/11/2020 at 09:23

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i was watching “The West Wing” in Hamilton, Vic. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/11/2020 at 09:32

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No kidding.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/11/2020 at 09:34

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I learned of the events from you that morning when you telephoned. I cannot think of anything that affected me in a more lasting way than that week. Number 3 was born a few days later that week.

MoCamino > user314 09/11/2020 at 09:38

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I had been laid off in early August and hadn’t had any luck finding a new job. (Admittedly I was being far too picky due to an inflated ego.) I was at home with my wife, trying to decide where I’d go to apply for jobs next. Our son (9 years old at the time) was at school and my wife was 8 months pregnant with our daughter. My wife and I watched it all unfold on TV from our couch. I was torn between the horror of what was happening and wondering if I’d be able to find a job in the aftermath of the attacks.

I got a heck of a lot less picky in my job search afterwards, but it still took a while to get a new one . I started my new job in late November, in a position that had me flying to customer sites for installation work two to three weeks out of the month. (I was at least home on weekends.) It was pretty unnerving to be on planes for the first few months, but I never had any problems. I’m still working for the same company, now in a job where I rarely (if ever) travel. It feels like it happened yesterday but 100 years ago at the same time. The weirdest thing has been all the people I’ve met since then (here in Missouri) that tell me stories of how they were in NYC when it happened.

WilliamsSW > user314 09/11/2020 at 09:56

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I remember vividly where I was at - sitting in a left turn lane waiting to merge onto 294 NB, and the woman on the radio (Mary Dixon) said that a plane had hit the WTC . It was somewhat nonchalant, and I figured maybe it was a Cessna. Shortly after I got to work, I heard about the second plane. That’s when I knew it was real. The rest of that week (month really) was just surreal.

On the day they opened up the airspace, I was at a conference by O’Hare. When I saw that first plane in the air, tears welled up in my eyes.

So many other specific memories from that time, I could write a book- yet so much worse for so many people.  

user314 > ttyymmnn 09/11/2020 at 09:56

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I actually struggled with this one a bit, and finally decided “Less is more”. No videos of the planes impacting, no pictures of the Towers and Pentagon on fire. 

ttyymmnn > user314 09/11/2020 at 10:00

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My annual 9/11 post is coming later. I chose to go with a just-the-facts approach about the flights only. The lead photo shows some of the damage, but like you, I chose to avoid graphic imagery. All of that is readily available for those who wish to see it. I don’t. 

user314 > WilliamsSW 09/11/2020 at 10:44

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I was on my way into work, and was listening to Howard Stern when someone (can’t really remember if it was one of his crew or the news) said something about a plane hitting a building in NYC. I immediately thought of the B-25 that hit the Empire State Building in’45 , but I was going underground at that point, and had to drop off. I don’t remember anyone saying anything once I got in, but once I got settled I tried to check the national news, but it was even slower than normal (even for 2001). Some people must have been listening, and heard about the second plane, as well as the attack in DC. By that point, everything had stopped (I was in our wire room at the time, same bank I’m working for now), and we were all trying to figure out what was going on. I want to say they decided around 1 to start sending people home. I had to stay to run our EOD process, but I was on my home by 3ish. It was creepy how empty the streets were at that point. 

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > user314 09/11/2020 at 11:29

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What always sticks with me is the descriptions of how perfect the weather was that day. I don't experience that anymore living in socal now. But when I was back east, those "perfect weather" days were ALWAYS burned into me. When one would happen, you are always drawn back to the previous one like De ja vu. Something about the dry, still air, warm sun, clear skies, but not hot either. I've had many of those fall days turn into a sunup to sundown driving day where I just did not stop because I didn't want it to end. But anyways, for some reason those days always had me think 9/11 as well because of it. It's faded over time especially now that perfect weather is all too common here anyways. But just something I figured other people might experience too! 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > user314 09/11/2020 at 18:59

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Had just gotten up. Boss called and said simply, “ turn on your TV.”