I know where I was:In a leadership training class.
I remember when the organizer popped his head through the door and said that two aircraft had hit the World Trade Centers and that one had already collapsed.
I thought he was joking.
Later, I found out that the brother of one of my classmates was in the South Tower when it got hit. The story goes that people were looking at the other tower talking about evacuating, but they hadn't been given the word. He felt the South Tower get hit and saw debris falling.
He immediately went for the staircase and heading down as fast as he could. He broke into a sprint as soon as he was outside, running as far and as fast as he could.
He survived.
RIP the victims of 9/11.
P^3
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The four flights were:
- American Airlines Flight 11: a Boeing 767 aircraft, departed Logan Airport at 7:59 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of 11 and 76 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers flew the plane into the northern façade of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 8:46 a.m.
- United Airlines Flight 175: a Boeing 767 aircraft, departed Logan Airport at 8:14 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of nine and 51 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers flew the plane into the southern façade of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 9:03 a.m.
- American Airlines Flight 77: a Boeing 757 aircraft, departed Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:20 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of six and 53 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers flew the plane into the western façade of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, at 9:37 a.m.
- United Airlines Flight 93: a Boeing 757 aircraft, departed Newark International Airport at 8:42 a.m. en route to San Francisco, with a crew of seven and 33 passengers, not including four hijackers. As passengers attempted to subdue the hijackers, the aircraft crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m.
- Source: Wikipedia
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