September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by jazzyjackson on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:02PM (#28494189)

I thought I remembered the plot to the 1996 film “executive decision” as being a debate whether to shoot the passenger jet out of the sky because the plane was going to be used as a missile, but i just read the plot again and they were going to detonate a nerve agent bomb on board the plane while over a us city, so, similar but not quite a prediction of the predicament.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by JamilD on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:05PM (#28494868)

I just started watching the historical footage from CNN; it's interesting to hear the commentary in between when the first and second planes hit the tower.

"Was the plane having any difficulty flying?" "Yes, it seemed to be rocking back and forth" "Was this a navigational error?"

An announcement in the South Tower immediately after the crash instructed people to stay in their offices.

Even after the second tower was hit, the immediate reaction was that it was a second explosion in the North Tower caused by the fuselage of the plane.

4 minutes after the second plane hit, when it was clear that two planes were involved: "was it possible a navigational error directed two planes into the World Trade Center?"

It's incredible to think just how much our attitude and perspectives changed after realizing what exactly had happened.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by 7952 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:13AM (#28499666)

It must be so difficult to do command and control in a situation like that. So many different agencies with diffetent expertise and patchy data.

Maybe large buildings should have cameras pointed at them with IR modes. Feed it to a national control centre that has experts on staff and links to other agencies. And make those kind of judgements thats will seem obvious in hindsight.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by garaetjjte on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:31PM (#28496705)

That depends on the channel though. On one labeled "NEWSW" they said "I think we have a terrorist act of proportions that we cannot begin to imagine at this juncture. " immediately after second hit.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by trothamel on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:23PM (#28494406)

(Spoilers)

The end of Tom Clancy's 1994 book "Debt of Honor" featured a 747 being crashed into the Capital, which is about as close as fiction gets.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by anonymousab on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:32PM (#28494526)

A bit closer is the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen, where a March 2001 episode featured a plot to crash an airliner into the world trade center and blame it on terrorists to justify a new war.

Obviously 9/11 wasn't some government conspiracy to purposely spark new wars, but the other details are eerily similar.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by strogonoff on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:52AM (#28499145)

A plot one of the stages of which included potentially crashing an airplane into WTC[0], among other targets, was uncovered (mostly, it appears, by accident) and thwarted in the mid-nineties. The Lone Gunmen plot coincidence is less curious considering that plot could have served as an inspiration, although the means of hijacking were very different in the series.

The sad thing is that uncovering that plot didn’t help prevent the actual attack based on it a few years later…

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot#Phase_III:_CIA_pl...

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