Also:
United Airlines orders all its flights to land at the nearest airport.
Also:
Tom Burnett makes a third call to his wife Deena.
DEENA: Tom, you’re okay?
TOM: No, I’m not.
DEENA: They just hit the Pentagon. They think five airplanes have been hijacked. One is still on the ground. They believe all of them are commercial planes. I haven’t heard them say which airline, but all of them have originated on the east coast.
TOM: What is the probability of them having a bomb on board? I don’t think they have one. I think they’re just telling us that for crowd control.
DEENA (a former flight attendant): A plane can survive a bomb if it’s in the right place.
TOM: [The hijackers are] talking about crashing this plane into the ground. We have to do something. I’m putting a plan together. There’s a group of us.
He tells her he will call back and hangs up. Deena is amazed at how calm he sounds.
And:
About this time, my sister-in-law lands in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and is stranded there, (yes, I know...not a terribly bad place to be stranded, all things considered) after all outbound flights are canceled.
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