# 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:** 9
**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, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/161 "2001-09-11T14:29:43Z")
SECOND TOWER JUST COLLAPSED ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/162 "2001-09-11T14:29:49Z")
I’m being sent home. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/163 "2001-09-11T14:29:51Z")
I am on the 10th floor of our office building in Arlington. I can hear distant sirens. I can hear helicopters. I swear I heard an explosion. I do not feel safe. Our boss may evacuate the office. I have family members who work in Manhattan. My father, at age 56, is still subject to active-duty recall as a retired Army warrant officer. I am terrified for myself and my family. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/164 "2001-09-11T14:30:00Z")
And there goes number 2 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/165 "2001-09-11T14:30:14Z")
It’s gone now. Both towers. I am so angry and sad. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/166 "2001-09-11T14:30:55Z")
oh dear god… the second tower just went down, and a carbomb went off in front of the state building… vix is probably dead. really dead. i’m crying… ---
**Author:** ![Damhna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/167 "2001-09-11T14:30:58Z")
Capitol Hill explosions are definely confirmed. Both towers have collapsed ---
**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, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/168 "2001-09-11T14:31:18Z")
I just felt the shaking indicating that the second tower has collapse. I’m so sorry. I only hope people were able to get out. ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/169 "2001-09-11T14:31:19Z")
Both towers are down now… People jumping out moments before ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/170 "2001-09-11T14:31:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by aegypt_ > \*\*How are people around you reacting to this? Where I work everybody is sitting with their radios turned on, trying to get through to various news websites. \*\* **cat** and I are doing just that…in our front office, they’re watching television, I believe. A co-worker just came upstairs and hugged me, just as the second tower fell. I am beyond unnerved, wiping tears from my eyes on and off. Thank you, everyone, for posting the latest… ---
**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, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/171 "2001-09-11T14:31:32Z")
The second tower just went down. God, let it stop, please?? ---
**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, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/172 "2001-09-11T14:31:39Z")
I just watched the other tower fall. This is so horrible! Jim ---
**Author:** ![Kamikazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kamikazee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamikazee)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/173 "2001-09-11T14:31:42Z")
WTC has collapsed??? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/174 "2001-09-11T14:32:08Z")
I’m trying to figure out if our base has been locked down - according to one local radio station, both Navy bases here in Jax are in lockdown… We’ve got a TV in the office and everyone is glued to it… radios are all on… I fear this is just the beginning… ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/175 "2001-09-11T14:32:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BunnyGirl \* > \*\*But, we’ve pussy-footed around too long with these terrorists. > > Find the fuckers and kill them. No mercy, no plea bargaining, no peace. Vengeance and retribution. Kill them all and let God sort them out. > > Find their headquarters, regardless of its location, and make them a pool of glass. > Show them that when they mess with the bull, they get the horn. \*\* To show you what a geek I am, my first reation to this was remembering Delenn’s “kill them all” speech that triggered the Earth-Minbari war on Babylon 5. It shames my liberal heart to say this, but I agree. Kill them all. No mercy, no jail time. It’s time to play hardball. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/176 "2001-09-11T14:33:03Z")
Good god. And bush was worried about a rogue state with a nuclear missile. ---
**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, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/177 "2001-09-11T14:36:51Z")
Stockmarkets are down around the world… Frankfurt, Germany down 8 percent, Paris 6, London 5… but I could care less right now. ---
**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, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/178 "2001-09-11T14:37:23Z")
Our Military Base (Fort Riley, Kansas) has called all military personnal in and is on full alert!! Good Lord, I hope this doesn’t turn into war! I’m really shaken over all of this. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/179 "2001-09-11T14:37:46Z")
I just feel like screaming. **WE BUILT THAT TOWER YOU FUCKERS! THIS IS OUR COUNTRY! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT THAT JUSTIFIES THIS!** Vix, I did not know you, but godspeed. :::weeping::: BTW, the normally jovial receptionist where I work (San Fer Valley) called and said everyone’s off with pay. He was not jovial today. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/180 "2001-09-11T14:38:00Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** I see several instances of people wishing swift and terrible vengeance on the as yet unknown assailants. While I certainly sympathize, I’d like to suggest that these comments are not productive. In fact, in the heat and confusion of this moment, those comments may be misunderstood by other members. My advice is that we all refrain from expressions of temper. Displays of such are inappropriate to the solmenity of this horrific act. Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850.md?page=10)