> Jacob wrote: > I remember watching it on TV at 5:50am. Breaking news about a plane hitting > the first tower. I thought it was your "typical accident." At 6:03am, when > the second plane hit, that was no longer a thought... >
I was working in the airline industry and hadn't left for the office when I saw the first report on the news. I remember thinking, "whaaaattt the fuuucckkkk?" I thought it was some type of massive mistake, but I couldn't figure out how anything like that could happen. I called my boss and he told me to "sit tight" because he'd heard all hell's breaking loose and they weren't sure if any of the airports were safe. The crisis management center was firing up, but since it was located at the airport they quickly set up another one 10 miles away. Within an hour we had to get 400 aircraft on the ground world wide, deal with the logistics, passengers, etc. By the end of the day I was developing a company wide photo ID database that would work at any airport web terminal worldwide. It went online the next morning. Then, sometime after that they layed off 30% of airline employees and security was crazy. The big story in MN was the guy who lead an attack on the hijackers by saying, "let's roll" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:268985 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
