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(Chilling story) Airlines watched and worked in horror as hijackings unfolded
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^
| Oct. 15 , 2001
| Scott McCartney and Susan Carey
Posted on 10/21/2001 3:27:50 PM PDT by jern
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To: jern
A must read. Thanks.
Any time that it appears that our nation's resolve to prosecute this war is waning, all the networks should replay the film of the WTC being hit - and interview people whose lives were directly affected.
To: jern
BTTT
To: jern
Thanks for posting this.
Too, too real.;-(
To: OldFriend
Read the article again:
Mr. Carty and Mr. Goodwin also were talking on the phone with Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, who was in a government command bunker with Vice President Dick Cheney.
Mr. Carty told Mr. Mineta that American was ordering all 162 of its planes out of the sky; United already had ordered its 122 planes down. About five minutes later, the FAA shut down the skies over the U.S. completely to all but military aircraft.
To: BunnySlippers
Yes, it was in the WSJ last week, I read it over lunch and cried like a baby.
I had an uncle who worked for Delta for over 30 years, and I know from many years of talking with him that anytime there is a crash or any emergency, the entire airline grieves for weeks. My uncle was at DFW when there was a big crash in the early 1980s and it was like a death in the family to him. A woman who goes to my church is an American flight attendant and was best friends with one of the attendants on Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon. She is devastated.
People do not realize how hard ONE plane crash is for airline employees. It is almost impossible to fathom how devastated everyone at United and American must be, to lose two planes with all their crew and pasengers, the on top of that knowing that their planes were used as bombs to kill thousands. If the terrorists had only managed to crash four U.S. commercial airliners into the ground in one day, it would have been the most horrible thing to ever happen here.
To: jern
"He only wanted to learn how to turn an airplane, not to land or take off."-Instructor in Florida.....
To: prognostigaator
Bump for later reading
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posted on
10/21/2001 5:35:45 PM PDT
by
enough
To: OldFriend
Mineta and Jane Garvey, both.
To: Dems_R_Losers
Which section? I have the last 3 months of the WSJ on the floor in my office. The article is linked to MSNBC which has no sharing agreement with the Wall Street Journal. Click the source link and you'll see.
To: jern
The airlines did well
I will never read of this without a tear in my eye.
God Bless America
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posted on
10/21/2001 6:25:51 PM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: DWSUWF
Confessing my politically incorrect intuitions, I would never trust the people from whom these terrorists came. That's my problem, to be sure, but also theirs. In a generic way, if their ilk needs help because of difficulty or disaster, they will be last in line as far as I am concerned.
To: mathurine
"...In a generic way, if their ilk needs help because of difficulty or disaster, they will be last in line as far as I am concerned..." When this is over, and these wretches have been taught their place and introduced to their limitations, we should keep an eye on them, from a position at arm's length from us.
Maybe in a thousand years or so will they be capable of living with honor. Until then they will remain our vanquished and humiliated would-be enemies... As powerless as common street whores... As low as mangy, sh!t-eating dogs.
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posted on
10/21/2001 6:44:38 PM PDT
by
DWSUWF
To: jern
redrum.....redrum.......redrum.....Redrum......REdrum...... REDrum.....REDRum!.....REDRUM!!......REDRUM!!!!REDRUM!!!!!! REDRUM!!!!!!!!!!REDRUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
10/21/2001 6:52:36 PM PDT
by
at bay
To: jern
bump and bookmark
I hadn't realized that these two airlines had decided to ground their planes moments before Mineta ordered all of them down. I think that action saved another 5,000 lives.
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posted on
10/21/2001 7:07:52 PM PDT
by
fnord
To: fnord
Yep. Score one for private industry.
To: jern
Really great post, jern, thank you. Brings to light another side of 9/11.
To: BunnySlippers
The article is in the Monday, October 15 Wall Street Journal. Page 1, far right column.
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posted on
10/21/2001 7:40:40 PM PDT
by
Old Mare
To: 11th Earl of Mar
No kidding! When it boils down to it England, Israel and Australia along with us are the lone rangers.
To: OldFriend
Perhaps I am mistaken, however didn't each airline, meaning United and American just land all of their own companies planes? I understood the government made all of the airlines in the US land and closed the airspace.
I had not seen this article, really chilling, and I appreciate the repost if that is what it was.
To: Old Mare
Thank you, Old Mare. This will help.
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