This is about 9/11/2001. If you were not alive yet, just say so. #1 Where were you? ex: At home in Orlando FL #2 What were you doing at the time? ex: Don't recall but either sleeping or playing a PC computer game (game: w or w/o networking). #3 What did you think at first, while you watching the reports on TV? Note: This depends on the time that you saw it (ex before the towers fell). ex: I thought it was a new blockbuster movie coming out. But then I figured it out it was real (not a new movie coming out) since a single preview don't last that long and among other reasons.
It wasn't long before I moved out of my parents' house, I'd been sitting on my bed watching my black and white TV. Came downstairs to find them sitting reading the papers, and was like "turn the TV on", they asked "which channel?" and I was all "Doesn't matter".
I was at college (17) and had nipped outside for a fresh air break when the news came through. Everyone in my class was watching live video feeds online from various news outlets. It was a really shocking event and I don't think most people ever forget where they were when the news broke.
I was at work. When I heard (the first plane) I quickly put my desk computer on the CNN feed, and saw the second plane hit. Needless to say, nobody got any work done that day.
At work. Business owner from down the street came in and talked for a while before he casually said "Hey did you hear about that plane that hit that building in New York City?" He thought it was some little propeller plane or helicopter. Found a radio and turned it on... two airliners into the WTC and one in Pennsylvania. We all knew what that meant. Two days later I was at Ground Zero with my National Guard buddies helping with the recovery.
I was a commuter airline pilot at the time flying Dash 8's. On September 9th we had lost oil pressure on the right engine just as we took off from New York LaGuardia. We shut it down and returned to LGA. Spent the night there waiting for it to be repaired then flew home on the 10th to Harrisburg. I was scheduled to fly back to LaGuardia at 7 am on 9/11, but due to having worked on the 10th, I was over my allowed duty time for the week and ended up being home when the planes hit the towers. I was the second plane to land on Friday the 14th when LGA reopened. I spent the next 4 days flying in and out of New York. I remember watching the smoke pouring out of ground zero slowly changing from dark grey to white over that trip. It was a surreal time to be a pilot in the New York area. I'll never forget being there and seeing it first hand.
I was a toddler so, whatever toddlers do I guess. I work with someone who was printing newspapers at the time, literally the very morning it happened.
I was working in Tunbridge wells for a builder called Bob. Bob was a slave driver. We sat down listening to the radio in shock when Bob came along, he turned off the radio and said get back to work.
Yup. Although for some reason I recall they mentioned that a bit later. Might have just been the channel we were listening to. News was chaotic that morning for good reason.
The only movie of the movies that where about 9/11 that I saw was United 93. REF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_based_on_the_September_11_attacks
I was 9 months 9 days old, so probably asleep or eating or something it was 2pm time here. I belonged to the last of the school years where everyone in it was born before they came down but no memory of the event on the news, the next year down only has a few people born into it (born between September 1st - 11th) I have always found it strangely coincidental that the date corresponds to the US emergency number, that has always stood out to me.
It was about 40 minutes later after news coverage had already spent half an hour focusing on NY, that it hit the pentagon.
#1 Where were you? Sat in my office in Chelmsford, Essex #2 What were you doing at the time? I was adjusting insurance claims. Those of us in the global insurance business get very interested in anything that could become a large claim, so work stopped as we tried to get more information. #3 What did you think at first The US was pretty unpopular at the time, not least because GWB became President in somewhat contentious circumstances. I was also aware that there was a World Trade meeting in Zurich (I think) on 11/09/2001 and these events usually provoke protests, so my immediate image of what might have happened was a small, prop plane with a banner on it hitting one of the towers and smashing a few windows. I called my girlfriend and she was already watching the news, she confirmed it was a serious fire. Then she called to say she'd sat and watched the 2nd plane hit WTC 2. Obviously at that point we knew it was an act of terrorism. We got an email advising us to avoid London and asking London staff in the Lloyd's building to go home.
