Planecrash in US

oki101 · Post by **oki101** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:41 am

My apologies if my info is not correct. Just typing what they said in the papers.

josh · Post by **josh** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:44 am

I offer my condolences to the families of the people that have lost their lives in this tragedy.
It is a sad day and it sickens me.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:44 am

Originally posted by oki101:
My apologies if my info is not correct. Just typing what they said in the papers.

For all i know what i posted might also be incoorect, no one can be 100% sure. It will be a few hours yet before any definitive statemnt is out

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:46 am

There were 6 confirmed dead, and 1000 injured... but after the towers collapsing the death toll will surely be huge

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:46 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
@Ysh don't you think you are jumping to conclusions about war?

F*CK NO she's not! This demands swift reprisal of the deadliest kind. I want blood for this; I want to hurt them bad. So badly that'll it'll take a hundred years for the bastards responsible to recover, if they ever do. My brother (who is in the Air Force) says it's Arabs that are responsible and it wouldn’t surprise me a bit. I wouldn't want to be an Arab American right now (reminiscent of the Siege indeed). I just hope G.W. has the balls to go to war (I'd like to drop a nuke on the nation responsible, but conventional weaponry will do).

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:53 am

Just quit working and turned on the BBC news - horrible! I have no words for it - and my thought goes to the all the innocent citizens killed and hurt, and their families.

Anyway, according to BBC it's far to early to speculate in what crazy terrorist groups are responsible, or their nationality. An anonymous claim for some Middle east group had arrivied to an TV station in Abu Dahbi, but that's all for now.

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 7:58 am

So scary

People are running around...

I work for the airlines and it's just mayhem right now...

*hug*

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:02 am

Posted by Saruman -

Yshania, I wouldn't say that it was neccessarily the biggest peacetime tragedy (Chernobyl, great plague etc.) but it ranks pretty high up.

Sorry Saruman - I did not mean to detract. I meant terrorist activity.

@Mr Sleep - If this is an act from another nation, it is most definitely an act of war. What else would it be?

If it is a splinter terrorist group, or for that matter any terrorist group, it would still be an act of war.

No organisation/nation would commit such an atrocity and not expect retaliation.

The second tower has collapsed now...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:06 am

Originally posted by Yshania:
The second tower has collapsed now...

Still no reports of what has happened to all the people on the ground in the area...

Part of Pentagon seems to have collapsed also...

josh · Post by **josh** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:07 am

There's stuff going on in Chicago and another plane has crashed in Pennsylvania.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:08 am

Apparently there is another hijacked plane heading towards Washington...

There are several planes still unaccounted for...my God!

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:10 am

Reported a tremendous number of lives have already been lost - number still not quantified....

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:10 am

Originally posted by Yshania:

@Mr Sleep - If this is an act from another nation, it is most definitely an act of war. What else would it be?

We were not entirely sure whether it was the act of a nation at the time of posting, for all we knew it was an accident.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:12 am

There are fighter jet planes flying the area...if they spot another jet (even a passenger jet) they will have to make the decision whether to shoot it down (passengers and all) or let it crash...

It is anticipated that there will be US citizens on board, one of the jets already crashed was US Air...

What a horrible decision....

The fallen one · Post by **The fallen one** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:15 am

Originally posted by Georgi:
There were 6 confirmed dead, and 1000 injured... but after the towers collapsing the death toll will surely be huge

There is 50 000 people that work in those towers I hope that they all managed to get out in time. At least they did not come down right away. This is hard to believe. My thoughts and prayers go out to those in time of need. I wounder if this is the same group that tried to blow up the towers a while back.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:15 am

Posted by Mr Sleep-

We were not entirely sure whether it was the act of a nation at the time of posting, for all we knew it was an accident.

Too much coincidence. Three planes hijacked, many more planes yet unnaccounted for...

The 'targets' dictate to me that this was a deliberate act of terrorism.

It is only my opinion, but surely a coincidental accident of this size....the odds against

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:17 am

Originally posted by Yshania:
Too much coincidence. Three planes hijacked, many more planes yet unnaccounted for...

The 'targets' dictate to me that this was a deliberate act of terrorism.

It is only my opinion, but surely a coincidental accident of this size....the odds against

I agree with you that now it appears to be an act of terrorsim, when i posted my comments it was not that clear.

Saigo · Post by **Saigo** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:17 am

I believe the plane that crashed outside of Philly mayhave been shot down.

The death toll will be far in excess of 1000. More likely close to 10,000.

Whether a nation or a terrorist group, there is probably going to be a bloodbath.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:18 am

When those towers were hit it was the height of rush hour.

20,000 people would have been inside those buildings at that time...

Posted by Saigo -

I believe the plane that crashed outside of Philly mayhave been shot down.

US airforce jets have their instructions...they are patrolling the skies now...

[ 09-11-2001: Message edited by: Yshania ]

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:18 am

Originally posted by Yshania:
Too much coincidence. Three planes hijacked, many more planes yet unnaccounted for...

The 'targets' dictate to me that this was a deliberate act of terrorism.

It is only my opinion, but surely a coincidental accident of this size....the odds against

It is an act of terrorism. There can be no doubt of that. They're saying that there are only a few terrorist groups in the world sophisticated enough to do this.