Aero-News: Quote of the Day
ANN's Quote of the Day
usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to
pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events
and issues.
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content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be
thought-provoking.
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Aero-News Quote of the Day
"You'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see what is
happening to America at the moment. Obviously; TV reports will be
updating this matter second by second but at the moment it appears
that at least two air carrier class aircraft have been involved in
what certainly appears to be a deliberate attack on the World Trade
Center.
One of those aircraft has been reported to be an American
Airlines 767 out of Boston which impacted one of the WTC
Towers.
The attacks have apparently lead to the collapse of both towers,
with what must be an incredible loss of life as the normal
population of both towers is reported to in the neighborhood of
50,000 people.
A Reuters report says that the aircraft was a hijacked American
Airlines' Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, according to Lori
Bassani, the spokesperson for American's flight attendants union.
Bassani, who said she was in a meeting with American officials in
Fort Worth, Texas, American's headquarters, said if full, the
flight on the Boeing 767 would carry 158 passengers. That would
include two pilots and nine or 10 flight attendants, she said. She
reported she did not know how many people were on board (some
reports now put the POBs as 90 people). We have no idea what
aircraft made the first impact but various reports indicate that it
was on the order of a Boeing 737/757/767, with some reports now
indicating that this was a hijacked United Airlines aircraft out of
Dulles.
Additional reports indicate that a large attack has taken place
on the Pentagon, also currently attributed to an aircraft (now
reported as a Boeing). The FAA has ordered the grounding of all
commercial aircraft and commercial airports all across the country
are being shut down as fast as they can get the aircraft landed.
The White House and most Federal Buildings in the District of
Columbia (where a car bomb has now been reported to have exploded
outside the State Department) have been ordered evacuated. Other
reports of hijacked aircraft and aircraft crashes are coming in as
we write this. Our ability to get data to the site, via the
overloaded Internet has been slowed considerably, and we will
report what seems appropriate as we can... but one thing is
now assured, all of our lives have now changed in ways that we can
only begin to imagine. "
Source: ANN Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, in
ANN's early morning coverage on September 11th, 2001, starting just
minutes after the attack and after both towers
collapsed...
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