Re: September 11th 2001
 

Not wishing to be morbid, but for those that were watching on TV - do you recall the real-time horror?

The realisation that people were trapped on the top floors and indeed were jumping to their deaths in preference to the alternative.

Of course that was edited and / or not shown in subsequent footage, but that is one specific and most disturbing recollection of that days events.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

Never seen the Falling Man?

Re: September 11th 2001
 

In a meeting with the McLaren F1 engineering team. We stopped the meeting and watched livestreaming video for about 10 mines, then carried on!

Re: September 11th 2001
 

Nope, please enlighten me!


10 minutes later.............

Ah! Wikipedia'd it, thanks.

Those in the same boat as me may find it interesting to do the same.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

I was watching it in TV in London, frantically trying to get hold of my brother who worked a couple of blocks away. He saw it all happen from his window. I also knew a few people who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.

I'll never forget those pictures and the feeling of horror.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

She means the footage of the gentleman that threw himself from Tower II. Lemming instinct, I guess...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnA9FjvLSU

Re: September 11th 2001
 

Sorry, got busy.

The Falling Man is a docufilm about trying to identify one of the jumpers. A couple of the more harrowing hours spent in front of the TV ever. It was shown on Channel 4 the week after Camp Xray, I'm not sure if it's a channel 4 production or not though.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

I stand corrected. Oliver Stone's "World Trade Centre" was quite harrowing, too. He gave a public talk about it at last year's DFF. Glad he made the movie rather than a Holloywood mainstreamer - he managed to pull it off without down-your-throat american nationalism.

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OH and I had just come in from being out to dinner and Mother in law had the news on we stood there and watched as the second plane flew into the other tower ...I will never forget it as long as I live. Absolutely horrible.

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That's one of the things I liked most about the falling man, especially given it was shown in some ways as the flip side of the coin to the Gitmo atrocity.

I do believe the individual in the film is the man in the YouTube clip.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

There is a documentary by a french crew who had been filming with the firemen! they happened to be there at the right/wrong time. They were filming in lobby and every minute or so you could here a loud thud as something crashed into the ground. Completely numbing when you realise that the something was someone!

Re: September 11th 2001
 

Aye, some of the very famous footage came from those French brothers.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

What was I doing at the time?
I was driving up SZR from Diera towards Jebel Ali, near Wafi I got a phone call from one of my collegues telling me 'a plane just hit the World Trade Centre', I told him that as I would be there in 30 seconds so I would confirm it, but so far I couldn't see any smoke.
I could hear him almost do a double take before he replied "not our World Trade Centre, the one in New York!'
The whole of Dubai was very quiet that night, every one was glued to CNN.

Re: September 11th 2001
 

You Muppet :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Re: September 11th 2001
 

Working on an Army Air Base. The place went into overdrive. Took me two extra hours to get out of the place that evening as the Americans started moving some of there planes there from germany.

For weeks after, even though we knew the guards on the gate, every morning was frisked and the car was searched top to bottom, inside and out by mirrors and dogs