"Call me crazy, but I believe that if only a single plane had been hijacked in 2001 and flown into the wtc tower (one of them), there would at least have been some effort to downplay the terrorist angle at first."
You're not crazy at all. I caught the 9/11 coverage just after the first plane hit and at that point they were talking accident. It all changed after the second one went into the second building so deliberately. Once the Pentagon got hit, everyone knew. If the terrorists had stopped at the first one, it probably still would be referred to as an accident today.
" You're not crazy at all. I caught the 9/11 coverage just after the first plane hit and at that point they were talking accident"
In the end I am not sure how they would have forced AMR or UAL to swallow the 'suicidal pilot' theory, which would kill their business, but that seems the most logical explanation.
You're not crazy at all. I caught the 9/11 coverage just after the first plane hit and at that point they were talking accident. It all changed after the second one went into the second building so deliberately. Once the Pentagon got hit, everyone knew. If the terrorists had stopped at the first one, it probably still would be referred to as an accident today.
Great point, bears repeating. Absolutely true.
If I remember correctly, FNC was speculating it was terrorism before the second plane hit. I'll have to check my videotapes to confirm that, but I remember them even discussing the possibility it was Bin Laden. I also remember CNN still claimed it was an accident even after the second plane hit.