The World Trade Center’s North Tower collapses. It was hit by Flight 11 at 8:46, 102 minutes earlier.
11 September, 2009
It’s 10:06 AM September 11, 2001 – Where Are You?
United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into an empty field just north of the Somerset County Airport, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, 124 miles or 15 minutes from Washington, D.C.
It’s 9:59 AM September 11, 2001 – Where Are You?
The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses. It was hit by Flight 175 at 9:03 A.M., 57 minutes earlier.
It's 9:57 AM September 11, 2001 - Where Are You?
Two groups of passengers (one containing Tom Burnett who has been on the phone with his wife, and one containing Todd Beamer who has been on the phone with a Verizon representative) apparently working independently attempt to to regain control of United Airlines Flight 93. Todd Beamer leaves his phone connected and at about this time is heard to say "Let's Roll."
It’s 9:45 AM September 11, 2001 – Where Are You?
Ben Sliney, FAA’s National Operations Manager, orders the entire nationwide air traffic system shut down. All flights at US airports are stopped. Around 3,950 flights are still in the air. Sliney makes the decision without consulting FAA head Jane Garvey, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, or other bosses, but they quickly approve his actions. It’s Sliney’s first day on the job.
My sister-in-law is stranded in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (yes, I know...not a terribly bad place to be stranded, all things considered) after her flight lands safely there, but all outbound flights are canceled.
It’s 9:37 AM September 11, 2001 – Where Are You?
American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. Approximately 125 people on the ground are later determined killed or missing.
It’s 9:03 AM September 11, 2001 – Where Are You?
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center (Tower Two). Seismic records pinpoint the time at six seconds before 9:03 a.m. (rounded to 9:03 a.m.).
It’s 8:46 AM September 11, 2001 – Where Are You?
I’ve been requested to do this again.
American Airlines Flight 11 Hits the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Two minutes later CNN would break off a commercial with live news on this. Carol Lin says, “This just in. You are looking at ... obviously a very disturbing live shot there—that is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.” CNN then switches to Sean Murtagh, the network’s vice president of finance, who says in a live telephone interview, “I just witnessed a plane that appeared to be cruising at a slightly lower than normal altitude over New York City. And it appears to have crashed into—I don’t know which tower it is—but it hit directly in the middle of one of the World Trade Center towers. It was a jet, maybe a two-engine jet, maybe a 737 ... a large passenger commercial jet ... It was teetering back and forth, wing-tip to wing-tip, and it looks like it has crashed into—probably, twenty stories from the top of the World Trade Center—maybe the eightieth to eighty-fifth floor. There is smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center.”
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15 July, 2009
Democrats think 64 MPH Is Too Fast, But 174 MPH Is Just Fine
Personally, I thought 64 was too fast too.
14 July, 2009
Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama’s energy cap-and-tax plan.
Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK), has a beautiful op-ed in the Washington Post today.
It does two things.
- Slaps all those people in the face that thought Sarah Palin was just going to “go away”.
- Shows what’s wrong with the President’s cap-and-trade bill.
I love this part:
In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.
As they say, read the whole thing.
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