9/11 - where were you?

[Dr Nowt]

4 hours ago, chevettehs said:

Who did you borrow her from?

Kate and Gerry.

[Dr Nowt]

12 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

What did the dog do?

 

[easytoslip]

35 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Not once ever. 

Never mind , once when working on the NEC I copped off with a bird in some night club , went back to hers and went straight for the tits , yow keen she said and fucked me off into the early hours , I thought I was following the proper procedure.

[Davelfc]

 

On September 11, 2001, four airliners were hijacked by terrorists with the intent to turn them into weapons. The original plan by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed called for 10 planes to be hijacked and flown into various targets such the World Trade Center, Empire State Building, The Pentagon, The Capitol, The White House, the US Bank Tower in LA, Sears/Willis Tower in Chicago, Columbia Center in Seattle, and others. However, this plan was rejected by Bin Laden for being too difficult to pull off.

 

 

American Airlines Flight 11 aircraft was a Boeing 767-223ER delivered in 1987, registration number N334AA. The capacity of the aircraft was 158 passengers, but the September 11 flight carried 81 passengers and 11 crew members. Flight 11 was scheduled to depart at 7:45am and began it's takeoff run at 7:59am and travel to Los Angeles International Airport. (Picture is N334AA, the aircraft flying Flight 11, taxiing at Manchester Airport on April 8, 2001, five months before the attacks.)

 

 

11 crew members were Captain John Ogonowski, First Officer Thomas McGuinness, and flight attendants Barbara Arestegui, Jeffrey Collman, Sara Low, Karen Martin, Kathleen Nicosia, Betty Ong, Jean Roger, Dianne Snyder, and Amy Sweeney. TV Producer David Angel (Fraiser, Cheers, etc) was on the flight with his wife Lynn. Actress Berry Berenson, the widow of Anthony Perkins (from the movie 'Psycho') was also on the flight. Family Guy creator Seth Macfarland was supposed to be on the flight, but arrived late to the airport and missed the flight (his agent told him the plane leaves at 8:15am so he arrived at 7:50 as the plane was taxing onto the runway)

[Davelfc]

 

Flight 11 flight attendants Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong were able to call the ground and relay important information, such as who the hijackers were, what seats they were in, where they were heading, and more. Both were on the phone with officials when the plane crashed. Towards the end of her call, Amy Sweeney said "Oh my God. I see buildings. Water. We are too low. We are too low. Oh my God!" followed by a burst of loud static. Three minutes later CNN reported that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.

 

 

At 8:46am, Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, hitting at 480mph. Everyone on the plane and people on the impacted floors were killed instantly.

 

 

Flight 11 hit the North Tower dead on, which destroyed the center staircases and elevators. This essentially doomed the 1000+ people who were trapped above the impact zone (there was a business conference being held at the 'Windows of the World' restaurant that morning and many of the WTC jumpers are believed to have people on that floor)

 

 

An artist had a camera pointed at lower Manhattan which took a picture every 5 seconds for an art project It captured the impact of the first plane. Another picture taken seconds after impact from across the river: https://i.imgur.com/vvVUlXT.jpg Taken near the southern end of Manhattan shortly after first impact: https://i.imgur.com/VYpY8l7.jpg Picture from uptown New York shortly after first impact: https://i.imgur.com/A6DUliF.jpg Shortly after the first impact (paper and debris are still falling from the initial impact: https://i.imgur.com/YYGwyg3.jpg Picture taken from inside the South Tower after first plane (debris is falling into the Plaza below): https://i.imgur.com/cIBtVZK.jpg

 

 

Pictured is part of the landing gear from Flight 11 found about a block away from the World Trade Center After the impact, various debris littered the streets below. Seat cushions, pieces of fuselage, part of a plane engine, body parts, etc: https://i.imgur.com/XBYarjd.jpg An hour and a half later, the North Tower would collapse due to stress from the impact and heat from the fires.

[Davelfc]

 

United Airlines Flight 175 was a Boeing 767-222 (registration number N612UA). It had a capacity of 168 passengers and crew, but on September 11 the flight carried 56 passengers and 9 crew members. Flight 175 was scheduled to depart at 8:00am for Los Angeles International Airport and took off at 8:14am (picture is N612UA, the hijacked aircraft, taxiing at San Francisco International Airport in 1999.)

 

 

The nine crew members included Captain Victor Saracini, First Officer Michael Horrocks, and flight attendants Robert Fangman, Amy Jarret, Amy King, Kathryn Laborie, Alfred Marchand, Michael Tarrou, and Alicia Titus Excluding the hijackers, the passengers on the flight included 35 men, 12 women, and three children who were all under the age of 5 (Christine Hanson was the youngest victim of September 11 at the age of 2)

 

 

At 9:03am, Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 580mph. Everyone onboard the plane was killed instantly, along with many in the impacted floors (although a few people survived the impacted floors and escaped the building.

 

 

In the final five minutes of Flight 175, the plane dropped from 30,000 ft before impact meaning the plane was power-diving at almost 6000ft a minute before impact. The final moments of the plane watched by people on TV and those in New York show the plane banking hard to the left before the crash. Hijacker pilot Marwan was banking the plane to make sure he hit the tower instead of just clipping it with his wing. Due to the way the plane was turning, anyone on the left side of the plane would have seen the WTC fast approaching (with one tower already burning) until the final moment

 

 

With news coverage on the plane crash into the World Trade Center, millions of people around the world (in NY and watching on TV) watched in horror as a second plane suddenly came into view and crashed into the other tower.

 

 

Because of the way the plane was banked, the crash took out the majority of the central staircases and elevators in the South Tower. However, there was one staircase that remained because it was not hit directly by the plane and several dozen people were able to escape from the upper floors and out of the building. However, most people trapped above the impact zone were either told to stay where they are (because of the result of the trampling that occurred during the 1993 bombing) or because smoke was rising up the tower and people ascended up the tower to escape the smoke.

 

 

Pictured is one of Flight 175's engines found several blocks away. Like the previous plane, debris of Flight 175 littered the streets below. Part of the fuselage of Flight 175 found on the roof of a nearby building: https://i.imgur.com/fkyfNa0.jpg Less than an hour later, the South Tower will collapse.

[Davelfc]

 

American Airlines Flight 77 aircraft was a Boeing 757-223 (registration number N644AA) The capacity of the aircraft was 188 passengers, but with 58 passengers on September 11, the load factor was 33 percent. American Airlines said that Tuesdays were the least-traveled day of the week, with the same load factor seen on Tuesdays in the previous three months for Flight 77. Flight 77 was scheduled to depart Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:10am and took off at 8:20am bound for Los Angeles International Airport (picture is N644AA, the aircraft used for Flight 77, in March 1995)

 

 

The flight crew included pilot Charles Burlingame, First Officer David Charlebois, and flight attendants Michele Heidenberger, Jennifer Lewis, Kenneth Lewis, and Renee May. Excluding the hijackers, of the 59 other passengers and crew on board, there were 26 men, 22 women, and five children ranging in age from three to eleven (several of the children were 6th graders traveling with their teachers to California for a field trip sponsored by National Geographic which also had several employees on the plane. Georgetown University coach John Thompson booked a ticket for Flight 77 but changed plans at the last minute to attend a talk show. He felt the impact of the crash from his home in Washington DC.

 

 

TV commentator Barbara Olson was supposed to fly out the previous day (she was scheduled to be a guest on Bill Maher's 'Politically Incorrect' show in California), but went on Flight 77 on 9/11 so she could have breakfast with her husband (it was his birthday that day). She called her husband twice, saying that the plane was hijacked and that passengers and crew were huddled in the back. Her husband told her of the attacks on the WTC and Barbara knew how bleak the situation was. She asked her husband if there was anything she could do to help before the phone cut off. Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon less than 10 minutes later. Flight Attendant Renee May called her mother and told her the plane was being hijacked and that the passengers and staff had been moved to the back of the plane and told her mother to call American Airlines.

 

 

During the last few minutes of the flight, hijacker pilot Hani apparently missed the Pentagon (he was flying too high) and had the plane make a sharp 330-degree descending loop back to the Pentagon (https://i.imgur.com/Uzre2YJ.jpg). At the last moment, he advanced the throttles to maximum power and dived the plane into the Pentagon at 530mph. Everyone on the plane was killed instantly, along with many Pentagon workers in the impact zone.
 

 

Traveling at 530mph, the plane passed over the nearby freeway (clipping several lightpoles along the way, one which fell onto a taxi as the plane screamed overhead One witness was walking down the sidewalk next to the freeway when the plane shot overhead. He said as the plane passed he could see someone looking out one of the windows but the plane was going too fast to see if it was a man or woman. As the plane banked slightly to the left, the left engine hit the ground and the right engine hit a power generator.

 

 

As the plane hit the building, it fragmented into small pieces which shot through the building along with the fireball from the ignited fuel. The crash took out a large section of Army administrative offices and the Naval Operations Center. As the plane sliced into the building, it took out a number of support beams. The impact combined with the fire caused the impacted section of the Pentagon to collapse about 30 minutes after impact: As it crashed into the Pentagon, the debris shot 310 feet into the Pentagon within 8/10s of a second before punching out through the C-Ring in the middle of the building

 

 

Pictured is the mushroom cloud from the initial impact Crash site about a minute after impact, the jet fuel still burning: Closeup near the impact site, a horizontal hole from the left wing is seen:

 

 

Various debris from the plane was found all over the lawn in front of the Pentagon (one rescue worker found part of a human spinal column on the grass near the impact site) along with in the building. Recovery efforts found both engines, landing gear, parts of fuselage, the black box, and remains from passengers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Davelfc]

 

United 93 was a Boeing 757–222, registration number N591UA. The airplane had a capacity of 182 passengers; the September 11 flight carried 37 passengers and seven crew. United 93 departed Newark International Airport at 8:42am (four minutes before American Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center about 10 miles to the north east in Manhattan) and was flying to San Francisco International Airport. (picture is N591UA taxiing on September 8, 2001, three days before it was hijacked.)

 

 

Flight 93 was carrying 37 passengers and 7 crew members. The seven crew members were Captain Jason Dahl, First Officer LeRoy Homer, Jr., and flight attendants Lorraine Bay, Sandra Bradshaw, Wanda Green, CeeCee Lyles and Deborah Welsh. Actor Mark Wahlberg was scheduled to fly out to California with some friends on Flight 93 but changed plans at the last minute to attend a concert.

 

 

Jeremy Glick (far left) called his wife saying that the plane was hijacked by Iranian-looking men in red bandanas. He said that he and some other passengers were going to fight back the hijackers, telling his wife that some of them looked really small and that he could take them (Jeremy had martial art training). Todd Beamer (middle left) tried to use a credit card to place a call, but the call was routed to a customer service representative. He talked with GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson about what happened and that he and other passengers will try to take back the plane. His last audible words in the background of the call "are you ready, let's roll".

 

Tom Burnett (middle right) and his wife exchanged phone calls several times, with his wife alerting him about the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. Knowing the plane is on a suicide mission, he said that he and some of the other passengers would try to take back the plane. His last words to her were "don't worry, we're going to do something". Mark Bingham (far right) called his mother and told her the plane was hijacked by some men who appeared to have a bomb and that he and some other guys were going to try and take back the plane.

 

 

The passengers revolted against the terrorists starting around 9:57am (about the time the South Tower collapsed). Pilot Ziad started shaking the plane and rolling the plane in order to slow down the passenger revolt. The blackbox recorded sounds of glass breaking and stuff being smashed along with lots of yelling. At 10:03am, the plane rolled on it's right and plummeted to the ground, nosediving inverted into the ground at 563mph, creating seismic activity in the area. Everyone onboard was killed instantly. The crash happened less than 20 minutes flying time to Washington DC:

 

 

Val McClatchey was watching news coverage of the attacks when the plane screamed overhead. She went to grab her camera and as she did the plane crashed, creating a loud explosion which shattered windows and shook things from walls. She ran outside and took a picture of the mushroom cloud rising up nearby.

 

 

First responders arrived at the scene at 10:06am. Since the plane nosedived into the ground at well over 500mph, there was a massive smoldering crater in the ground 10ft deep and 50ft wide. Nearby trees were on fire from the fireball of the crash. At about 10:30am, CNN and other media channels were reporting that a large plane had crashed in Pennsylvania. Crash site seen from the air, showing how the plane nosedived into the ground:

 

 

Of all the planes that crashed, United 93 had the most wreckage recovered. Various debris was found all over the area and buried in the earth (one of the engines was found 20ft below the surface) at the impact site. Rescue workers found remains from all passengers but only about 8% of the total mass, the rest was consumed in the crash or buried in the earth at the impact site.

 

 

 

 

[Davelfc]

 

Standing in the footprints of the original World Trade Center are two reflecting pools, each with all the names of the victims of the September 11 attacks and the 1993 WTC bombing. Instead of being organized alphabetically, the names are organized by how the victims knew each other. Family members together, coworkers together, firefighters of the same House together, etc

 

 

Located outside where the impact site was, the Pentagon Memorial features 184 benches to memorialize the 184 victims of the Pentagon attack. If the bench is facing away from the building, that bench has the name of someone who was killed in the Pentagon. If the bench is facing towards the building, that bench has the name of someone who was on Flight 77. On the Pentagon itself at the exact place of impact is one of the original bricks that is scorched from the fire:

 

 

Located in Shanksville, Pennsylvania is the Flight 93 memorial. There is a large memorial wall featuring names of all the victims from the plane. There is a special path that leads to the crash site (a large boulder marks the position) for family members of victims to visit: