I thought about the B-25 incident on 9/11 as well but that was not the first event that came to mind. I recall the morning of 9/11 vividly.
I was in my youngest son’s bedroom helping get him ready for school when my wife came in and said “A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.” The words out of my mouth were “What do those people have against those buildings?” My first thought was of the 1993 plot to blow up the World Trade Center by moslem terrorists.
I knew immediately what it was, and who was behind it. And when the second plane crashed, I was not only shocked and angered, but also marveled at the operation the terrorists had just pulled off. My response to the second plane was “You sons of bitches...”
There is a huge difference between a WW2 era B-25 and a modern transcontinental Boeing 767 loaded with jet fuel.