Posted by Mark - IN. on September 11, 2015 at 16:14:52 from (98.206.242.17):
In Reply to: 9-11 where were you? posted by 37Chief on September 11, 2015 at 10:35:08:
Owned a home in Romeoville, IL. Was listening to Don and Roma on WLS-AM Radio talk about reports of an airplane that crashed into one of the towers. By the description, sounded like a small plane, perhaps a Piper Cub or something. I was driving on Interstate 80 headed to see my boss in Tinley park. They had a witness on the radio live from New York describing what he was seeing, the tower on fire when...live...he described a huge jet just crashed into the second tower LIVE as he was describing the aftermath of the first tower on fire. It reminded me of the Hindenburg crash as the then WLS reporter described it coming in for a docking in New Jersey when it suddenly burst into flames and people jumped to their deaths. How he went from how magnificent the event was, to the horror. That's kind of how the morning of 9/11 went. The fella was on the radio live from NY, describing to Don and Roma what he was seeing as he looked up at the first tower, then all of a sudden, he was describing the second jet coming down low, then crashing into the second tower...live, on the radio as it happened and we all listened. Don and Roma said in unison, "...this is no accident, this is an act of terrorism...". I called my boss whom was unaware until I told him. By the time I got to his office, people were standing around watching it on TV and he told me that the first tower had already collapsed. I was there watching it on TV when the second tower came down. It was an incredible site. By then, the other two jets had crashed into the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania farm field. Speculation was that the military had just shot down the jet in Pennsylvania. Our company has rapid response teams that have to be at O'Hare Airport within an hour after a plane mishap, checked in, on board and on their way to provide emergency communications at the mishap site. By then, the FAA had grounded all non-military air craft nationwide, except those rapid response teams out of O'Hare. An hour or so after everyone else was grounded, we had teams lifting off from O'hare on both United and American jets since those airlines were involved, headed for NY, Pennsylvania, and DC with military escort and had them there for a couple of weeks. I was too far away in Tinley Park to be at O'Hare within an hour at the time, so I was not and did not take part of those teams.
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