# World Trade Center Plane Crash **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2001, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850 "2001-09-11T13:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Paul\_The\_Younger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paul\_The\_Younger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_The_Younger)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/21 "2001-09-11T13:19:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > \*\*The news is placating. > > “There are three airports near here so it is possible for the planes to have been sidetracked or gotten slightly off course…” \*\* I’d have believed that before the second plane hit. Now it’s obviously terrorist action, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/22 "2001-09-11T13:22:03Z")
The BBC is saying the second one was a small passenger plane, and they seem pretty sure that one was hijacked. This is terrible. There must be hundreds of deaths. I was there on holiday just a few weeks ago and I’m shaking with shock. My heart goes out to all you New Yorkers and especially to victims and their families. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/23 "2001-09-11T13:22:13Z")
Both towers are on fire right now. I can’t even believe what I am seeing on the news. They said on NBC that they are finding debris from the crash in Brooklyn, which I guess is several miles away. I’m not a religious person, but I’m praying for the people on the plane, in the building, and the unlucky people who may have been walking or driving in front of the building when this happened. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/24 "2001-09-11T13:25:29Z")
> [@](#): > > A second aircraft – it looked like a 727 – just crashed into the other tower! I meant to type 7 **3** 7. A 727 is larger. Douglas and another company make 737-size aircraft that I always confuse with the 737, but I don’t know what they’re called. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/25 "2001-09-11T13:26:11Z")
Absolutely unbelievable. I can’t believe that something like this is happening. My thoughts and prayers are with all the victims and families right now. All NY dopers _please_ check in and let us know you’re ok!! ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/26 "2001-09-11T13:26:43Z")
They’re saying 6 dead 1000+ injured now. I’m sure that’ll rise though I hope to God it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/27 "2001-09-11T13:27:34Z")
oh my god My mom called and told me to turn on CNN… oh my god oh my god… ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/28 "2001-09-11T13:28:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Paul The Younger \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > > \*\*The news is placating. > > > > “There are three airports near here so it is possible for the planes to have been sidetracked or gotten slightly off course…” \*\* > > I’d have believed that before the second plane hit. Now it’s obviously terrorist action, isn’t it? \*\* Oh absolutely. Right after that they said “Still, I can’t believe no one saw this on their radar and tried to talk the pilot away from it.” Which I’m sure the radar person did. They’ve just closed every airport in NY. And there are people still in the top of the building. They’re landing people on the roofs to rescue. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/29 "2001-09-11T13:28:27Z")
There’s debris all over the place, but it’s mostly paper, so they’re kind of exxagerating on that point. But it’s bad. Real bad. I’m across town, and the air smokey. I saw the second collision, but too late to say anything about the aircraft. This is just awful. I’m intermittently cut off from news sources since my telcom provider is in the WTC, but I’ll report things as I learn them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/30 "2001-09-11T13:28:54Z")
The other 737-size aircraft I was thinking of is the McDonnald-Douglass **MD-80**. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/31 "2001-09-11T13:30:05Z")
Normally I’m alseep at this hour (two o’clock classes are nice,) but for some reason I woke up at 6 AM and stayed up. I heard on the radio that a plane hit the WTC, wow, I thought. Then they said a SECOND plance hit the second tower, so I turned on the TV and HOLY F\*CKING SHIT! The FBI and the airlines aren’t saying that the places were hijacked, but they ARE saying it was terrorism. The reports just said the planes were 727, 737, 747, or 757’s. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/32 "2001-09-11T13:30:57Z")
**manny** ~ glad to hear you’re all right. I’m not sure which dopers are in the city. Anyone know who? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/33 "2001-09-11T13:31:32Z")
Oh my gawd. This is scary. And people wonder why we get paranoid. \ ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/34 "2001-09-11T13:32:13Z")
People are in those towers now as they burn. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/35 "2001-09-11T13:32:16Z")
President Bush on TV just confirmed that it was a terrorist attack. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_The\_Younger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paul\_The\_Younger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_The_Younger)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/36 "2001-09-11T13:32:25Z")
CNN reporting an American Airlines 767 from Boston involved. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/37 "2001-09-11T13:33:44Z")
My heart goes out to the thousands of people that are affected by this. This is awful!! (I know that is a terrible understatement, but I just don’t have any words right now) Jim ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/38 "2001-09-11T13:33:47Z")
Anybody claimed responsibility yet? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/39 "2001-09-11T13:34:24Z")
God. Someone is going to pay for this. The news reports an American Airlines jet flying from Boston to Los Angeles was hijacked. There could have been 100 innocent passengers on that aircraft. If the other aircraft was also hijacked, there may be 30 or so more. More if it was a larger aircraft. Look out for airstrikes as soon as we know who did it. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/40 "2001-09-11T13:34:42Z")
Well, Amp, he did say apparent terrorist attack. It’s hard to believe that it’s anything else, but he’s being cautious in case this is a one in googleplex chance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850.md?page=3)