Manhattan FSX 2009 911

[noshadez]

For those who remember and do not forget :USA-flag:
Shot of Default FSX Manhattan at night (tonight) on 9/11/2009.

[JamesChams]

Right on! :engel016:

[Pepere]

Do you remember where you were?

David

[airtj]

In the air heading to New York for my mission.

[Kiwikat]

I was in 7th grade Spanish class... I noticed all the teachers were acting really odd. Later in class the principal made an announcement (which was almost completely inaccurate btw).

[harleyman]

I sure do....

I was at work , cutting a tractor trailor in half , when a driver overheard it over the radio, and I went into the lounge to watch the horror unfold on TV...As the first tower fell, it just crushed me, and I went home to be with my family.

Just the week before we were in NY on vacation, and had gone to see the towers for the day...

I have several friends that all live within a 4 block radius of the towers, and I was worried about them too!

[djscoo]

I was in 5th grade, after lunch I saw all the other classes watching TV and I was thinking how unfair that was. I didn't hear anything until I got home.

[MHAircraft]

I was driving to work when I heard on the radio that an aircraft hit the WTC. I thought it was an accident. Didn't really know what happened until I reached the office and saw everyone in the lobby with eyes glued to the TV.

[Tako_Kichi]

At the time I was self-employed and getting ready to go out to a business meeting with a client when I picked up the coverage on CNN just after the first tower got hit. I saw the second tower get hit live and could not believe my eyes. I was riveted to the TV until the first tower fell when I had to leave as I was already running late for my meeting. By the time I had driven to the client's company 25 miles away the second tower had fallen too. Needless to say all the talk was about the morning's events and not much work was getting done. I left at lunchtime as I just could not concentrate on the job at hand.

[c87]

I was working for a major US airline at the time, and was in a budget meeting. That was a surreal day, working in technical operations for an airline, while other airliners were being used as weapons. By late that morning, our entire fleet was on the ground. We had people on company business that were stranded wherever they were for days. It's a day I'll never forget.

[Chacha]

I was at the courthouse, All of a sudden the judge calmy informed us, to to vacate the building peacefully. I did not know what was going on, people were crying, I heard 75% of the announcement. Hurried back home, picked up my daughter at her daycare, (she was 6 months old then). Then I saw on TV how the WTC got hit by the plane and then another got hit, they were playing it over and over and over, I saw people jumping out of the buildings to escape, chaos.... all over... I could not stand it!

My daughter and I stayed in the bedroom, while my daughter's father was still watching, screaming, OH my goodness!! I remember crying and praying and crying and praying. It was a nightmare, the day I will never forget!

[glennc]

My office was moving from one location to another that morning. I had to make two or three trips. Every time I stopped, people were feeding me headlines through car windows.

My wife is Japanese. Her sister's 20 year old daughter and a friend had arrived in NYC on the 10th. They had minimal English skills and a credit card with a $500 dollar max. We knew they were there but had no way to contact them. They called us mid-day on the 11th. They saw the buildings fall. Then, began the scramble to get them out. That took three days. One was still having nightmares years later.

I was supposed to have been in DC that week for a business meeting but couldn't go. I had friends that were on a tour of the White House when the Secret Service pushed everyone out - none too gently for obvious reasons.

As for many others it was a day I will never forget.

Glenn

[CodyValkyrie]

Dear Lord, that brings up so many memories. I was in boot camp at Lackland AFB. I had just signed up for the military, and we were in week 5 when this happened. I graduated around the 15th or so. We all knew it then, that we were going to war. We even had guys in our flight during boot that had family there in New York. We were all scared, but we were very proud to be where we were. Still though, when you are 18 years old, and you see something like this and you are in basic training, it makes you grow up really fast....

Needless to say, I got through it all alive. Unfortunately for some of my buddies, that wasn't always the case....

A big thank you for all that served, and for those that lost their lives in the attack. I will NEVER forget.

[JamesChams]

Do you remember where you were?

DavidMr. David,

Oddly enough I do; I was at the dentist office for an early appointment when the 1st plane hit... and no one at the dental office knew at that point. After the appointment, I drove my motorcycle to a real close good friend of the families home (which happened to be on the way from there) and they told me about it; we spent the rest of the day together glued to the TV wondering what possessed those :isadizzy: to :gameoff:and :pop4: us.

We need to be in constant Prayer for our country, the good U.S. of A.:USA-flag:

[MenendezDiego]

I was in one of the greatest countries in the world, the United States of America.

Diego

[CG_1976]

I was aboard a flight bound for Boston from Ireland and we were told what happened and informed we are being sent to Canada and grounded. I would like to express my thanks to all the Canadians:medals: for there help and hospitality for all of us stranded Americans.

[tigisfat]

I was in the B-1 phase inspection dock high up on the tail working with tools that required hearing protection when I noticed wierd noises, then blew them off. They kinda sounded like sirens. I looked down a minute later, and the hangar floor was empty. I went back to work. Shortly after, the hangar floor was alive with troops sprinting everywhere and closing all the hangar doors. Directly below me, a figure in BDUs was waving it's arms. It was my boss, telling me to come down. I started cleaning up and took my hearing protection off. It was then I noticed that the sirens I heard were real world air-raid sirens and it hit me that something was very wrong. I went inside to watch TV and found out about the attacks. Our base was on threat condition Delta, and everything was locked down. Our flight chief stormed in and briefed us that three separate contingency plans were being enacted, and we should consider our homelifes non-existent until further notice. Without even orders from higher up, local peacetime commanders are to jump the business of preparing very specific sets of actions so that when they're needed, there is ZERO delay.

By 1600hrs, 11 September 2001 we had these options ready: The unthinkable, the classified, and forward deployment. By noon we had MX, aircrew and command personnel climbing out of Dyess on chartered passenger aircraft headed for forward operating locations so that support would already be in place and ready to catch and quick turn aircraft.


Then the copycats started. Most military bases stateside were called and threatened by imposters for reasons I don't know and never will. I can only hope that all the people who decided to incite more horror either were prosecuted or feel horrible now.

[CBris]

I was sitting on packed suitcases - ready to fly back to blighty for a handful of aerospace job interviews I had arranged. I remember thinking "This is Tom Clancy for real". Fact had caught up with fiction...

...with all the horror involved.

It was terrible. Thank God the Towers weren't full and that so many others managed to vacate.

[grunau_baby]

For sure one of the most surreal days of my life even though miles away!
I was at the office when an apprentice came in with the news about the first plane and we thought it was a hoax, simply impossible. When he returned with the news about the second hit we stayed glued to the internet which shortly after colapsed due to overload. Only wicked pictures of the colapsing towers and unreliable newsfragments. That day I left work early in a shuddered semiinformed state of mind, came home and found the wife cooking. I asked why she was cooking while the world colapsed, cause she didn´t knew a thing. We didn´t eat instead watched the TV-pictures over and over and over, cause it was just too incedible.... I can still recall that feeling I had that day,...

Regards
Alex

[PRB]

I was on the west coast, so by the time I started my truck, backed out of the driveway, and turned on the radio, much had already occurred. I remember being confused because the local radio voice was replaced by an unfamiliar one. They were playing the national news, as it turned out. The voice was said: “if you don’t have to go anywhere, stay home.” I thought, “ha, do I still have to go to work?” Then the voice said: “all aircraft across the country have been ordered to land immediately.” Then I thought “WTF..??” Then the voice said: “one of the WTC towers has collapsed.” Then I got irritated at the idiot news people who always have to over dramatize things. “Just tell me what the heck happened!” I told the radio, since I "knew" damned well the WTC towers could not “just collapse.” Then I shut off the truck and went back inside to turn on the TV…

[Ian Warren]

Simply , i woke from a slumber , early hours ... 0500 NZ time i guess ..

Today , ... we still talk about it , i look .. how dose a building the length of an aircraft carrier fall in on itself , the damage was from above .. why did it not shear the top and give to fall in the direction of impact !

how come ..

I'm all for America .. but something stinks here ..
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[UnknownGuest12]

At home looking at the news (CNN) together with my daughters then heard about the first plane. The oldest one, since I was an Air Portugal crewmember (retired now) and flew hundreds of times to NYC asked me how such a disaster could happen. As I was trying to explain that someone, either a pilot or controller hada messed up, puzzled and finding that impossible on such a clear weather, when sudenly came the second plane. First we were astonished and thoughed that was a replay image, then I noticed both towers have been hit. My daughter was the first one to realize it was an atack.
It was a terrible thing to look at, a terrible insane act, an atack to all of Humanity.

[Warrant]

I was at my airbase working, when i heard from the first impact over the radio. We discussed the probability of this being an accident or an attack. Then the second airplane impacted, and we all responded simultaniously: terrorist attack!, we're going to war!. Been on deployment fighting the culprits twice since that black day.

[Cag40Navy]

i was at the Chino Airport when the Air Raid sirens whent off, we made a dash to the big hanger and watched in horror as the planes hit the towers. then we heard the afterburners of the local fighter group scambling for another possible attack. in the end, i will NEVER forget those who died that day.
i will also NEVER forget those who have died to protect us here in the states.

[Bjoern]

Do you remember where you were?

Tennis training.

Heard it as a rumour there at first and immediately turned on the TV when I came home.

[tracyq144]

Just off I-5, south of Sacramento, getting ready to go down to LA to pick up a load of tires. Turned on the TV, as usual, while having my first cup of coffee. The first plane had already hit, rumors flying about what had happened, what size of plane it was, etc. Was seeing what I thought was a replay when the second plane hit, live, and I knew it was a terrorist attack. The world changed at that moment.

I stayed glued to the TV most of the day, the tire load forgotten. The next week was surreal, to say the least.

God bless all those who fight for freedom.

[noshadez]

I had originally loaded FSX on the Sept 11 date to see if they had an easter egg of the two memorial beams..they obviously were not there..they probably forgot.. So I include them here freeware attached..They only appear on Sept 11 of any year,,:USA-flag:

[Moses03]

I was driving to work when I heard on the radio that an aircraft hit the WTC. I thought it was an accident. Didn't really know what happened until I reached the office and saw everyone in the lobby with eyes glued to the TV.

That is how it went for me as well.

We live in the flight path to both KDFW and KADS and I remember standing in the backyard looking up and knowing not a single aircraft was in flight anywhere in the USA. Another moment that stands out was tuning in to the news that evening and seeing video of our National Anthem being played at the changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Very moving.

To this day I still can't watch any documentaries about the events. It's too upsetting.

[Shylock]

I had to go back to work. Spent the day and those that followed working 16 hour days for 2 weekes straight with no day off. Digging. Never forget the brave 23 NYPD, 343 FDNY, 37 PAPD and all civilians lost that day.

Scotty
proud American
proud member of the NYPD

[cheezyflier]

some of the things i will never forget are

A) one of my co-workers, IMMEDIATELY upon hearing the news replied
"it must have been that !@#$% bin-laden guy i saw on the history channel last week!" in my mind, if he could figure it out that fast, the implications are...well, i won't go there.

B) at some point, i don't remember exactly when, 3 fighter jets flew over my shop in wilmington. they were way under 1000', and the were really movin fast to the north east. they were the last planes i saw in the sky for weeks.
living and working so close to the dang base, and being just south of kphl, that's just creepy to not see any planes in the sky.

3) in my mind, the changes resulting from that horror are just as much a tragedy as the actual event.

[limjack]

I had originally loaded FSX on the Sept 11 date to see if they had an easter egg of the two memorial beams..they obviously were not there..they probably forgot.. So I include them here freeware attached..They only appear on Sept 11 of any year,,:USA-flag:


Thanks
noshadez, installing them now.

I woke up to live coverage on tv. They were reporting that a small plane crashed into the tower. Then I saw in disbelief the second plane hit. I new as everyone else new we were under attack.

[Chacha]

I had to go back to work. Spent the day and those that followed working 16 hour days for 2 weekes straight with no day off. Digging. Never forget the brave 23 NYPD, 343 FDNY, 37 PAPD and all civilians lost that day.

Scotty
proud American
proud member of the NYPD


Salutes you, Sire!

[Cag40Navy]

I had to go back to work. Spent the day and those that followed working 16 hour days for 2 weekes straight with no day off. Digging. Never forget the brave 23 NYPD, 343 FDNY, 37 PAPD and all civilians lost that day.

Scotty
proud American
proud member of the NYPD

God bless you sir!
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[Trans_23]

I was at work when a guy told me a plan hit the tower. I thought he meant a small GA or something. I had to go out later for a security badge or something and stopped at a Sears to watch everthing on TV. On my way home that day I saw contrails in the sky heading from west to east and realized it was Air Force One and it's fighter escort.

[crashaz]

I had gotten up early that morning. Getting ready to go into work early that morning for some testing that needed to be done.
I was watching Fox and Friends that was getting ready to end for the morning... they closed saying some report of a plane hitting one of the towers... I remember feeling some dread as I knew it would not be an accident and recalling the previous attack in the early 90s.
Got in the car for the 10 minute drive to work... listening to the radio... reports of a passenger aircraft. Got into the office.. told some people and we ran over to the conference room to see on TV there.
They still had no details of the first jet hitting and why... on screen commentators discussing.... when the second jet came into view and hit the building.

First thing that came to mind... we were at war.

I watched as the first then the second tower came crumbling down. Heard about the Pentagon attack, the approach of the failed 4th jetliner... then going down in PA... tried calling my friend @ her office a few blocks north of the White House... lines busy. Finally got ahold of her via email.
Crazyness in DC... cars parked near the FBI building and rumors of the Supreme Court and Capitol Hill being attacked.

For weeks the skies were empty.... unreal.... no contrails in the sky.

[Warrant]

Keep this thread alive please,

So many stories to tell