Everyone walks away before I could tell them that the woman wanted to travel with her friends on flight 175 and that their brother/uncle had by coincidence attended a meeting at the WTC that morning despite being a random Irish guy and not a New Yorker and he’d been helping a woman who had been severely burned by jet fuel find an ambulance when the plane his sister and niece were aboard slammed into the other tower right above them.

Guess I’m not good at parties.

  • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 days ago

    Would you like to hear about the kids who won a National Geographic competition and were being flown out to California as a prize for being good students?

    One of them had a dad who worked at the Pentagon but took the morning off to drop his son off at the airport. Right before he left his son confessed he was nervous since it was his first time flying on a plane. His dad assured him he had nothing to worry about as flying was the safest form of transportation.

    • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      6 days ago

      Also one of the producers of Frasier was on flight 11 returning to LA from a brief stay in New York. He flew this route so regularly that in one episode they actually mention flight 11 by name as a minor plot point (since up to 9/11 the morning cross country flight from NYC to LAX was always designated as flight 11.)

      They retired the designation after 9/11 for obvious reasons.

        • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldOP
          19·
          6 days ago

          Theres always more. Like 2997 people died and they all have a story. I’m a regular 7 of 9-11 when it comes to this stuff.

          Like the exec who only survived because he went down to meet a client in the lobby (security was tight after the 1993 bombing and visitors usually required an escort) which his secretary normally did but he did it himself this one time because she was 8 months pregnant and he didn’t want to put her through the hassle since she was so preggers she was due to start her maternity leave at the end if the week.