Remembering 9/11 - 20 years on

Pretty sure it was a training video for the Fire Service, one of them spotted a low flying plane and the camerman followed it.

Yeah that's the video I've seen, think they heard it more than spotted it (you can hear it roar over head) as the camera turns.
 
This may seem like a weird question, but was this forum around in 2001 and if so, are the posts from this day still accessible? I find it extremely interesting to read example of forums from that day where people were posting as events unfolded. Curious to see what was said on here.

I have a feeling there was a total refresh either in 01 or 03 and everyone had to stsrt from scratch? So perhaps the thread from then has gone.

Yes, I was reading the forums when it happened. This was pre 'nuke' so you won't find the posts here. Perhaps on an archive site though?
 
IMO there was a certain amount of covering up for political or organisational incompetence, other failings, corruption and so on which has only helped to fuel conspiracy theories around the event - similar as we see with COVID, etc. these kind of events sometimes risk exposing such things in a way those involved didn't foresee.

but 'covering up' would be involving blasting it to bits to destroy all the paper work, just making controlled detonations would still have dodgy papers being saved in metal cabinets.
Conspiracy theorists don't think these things through.
 
Yes, I was reading the forums when it happened. This was pre 'nuke' so you won't find the posts here. Perhaps on an archive site though?

I remember Spie's decision to close the forums on the anniversary of 9/11 for about 3 or 4 years afterwards.
 
It's insulting to see Bush give speeches around 9/11 when he was responsible for it by not acting on the intelligence saying it was going to happen.
 
I remember watching it as it happend. I was working for a company in central London. I can't recall who but someone emailed me a still image of the first plane hitting the tower. I immediately tried getting to the BBC News website but it was down; either the BBC News itself was being massively hammered by traffic or the internet in our building was overwhelmed. This was a relatively early stage of the internet. I tried calling my wife to tell her but she didn't take it seriosly and told me she was busy.

So a few of us went to a different floor and found one of those TV's with a VHS built into it which was used for repsentations at the time. After a few minutes we saw the second plane hit live on TV, followed by each building collapsing. I was working flexi time back then so I decided to leave as early as I could that day to avoid being on the tube during rush hour. That seemed like an ideal target if we were going to be attacked too.
 
but 'covering up' would be involving blasting it to bits to destroy all the paper work, just making controlled detonations would still have dodgy papers being saved in metal cabinets.
Conspiracy theorists don't think these things through.

I was talking in general over the course of the day and events around it rather than a specific part of the event.
 
I don't think the forums were closed for that long, a day at the most

I can remember them being closed the following year.

As for the day of the attack, I can remember coming home from school and putting the tv on about 30 seconds before the first tower fell. Up to that point I had no idea what had happened. I thought it was a film at first, until I realised the same thing was on all the channels.
 
Pretty sure it was a training video for the Fire Service, one of them spotted a low flying plane and the camerman followed it.

Lots of people interviewed on the day only reported hearing explosions though with no mention of hearing hulking great jets flying at extremely low altitude. The official story is dodgy to say the least but I don't pretend to know what happened. Building 7 collapsing in exactly the same orderly way should set alarm bells ringing though. 3 towers falling in such an orderly fashion, one not even being hit, what are the chances? it takes teams of demolition experts weeks/months to do that sort of thing normally.
 
What I didn’t understand is that why was anyone filming WTC at the moment the first plane hit? Did they know something?
It was for this documentary originally about a rookie firefighter. If you have never seen it its worth watching as it as it really does show the path of normal working day > day of hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd6D5xls5Y0
Not the original source, which I believe has since got locked up in distribution rights by CBS/CNN.
 
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Yeah that's the video I've seen, think they heard it more than spotted it (you can hear it roar over head) as the camera turns.

The recent ITV documentary 9-11: Life Under Attack provides background to the footage of how the first plane was captured on film (7:00mins):

 
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i like my women like i like my
building 7,
going down for no reason.

thats a conspiracy theory reference that 9 out of 11 people wont get,
its an inside joke.
 
Lots of people interviewed on the day only reported hearing explosions though with no mention of hearing hulking great jets flying at extremely low altitude. The official story is dodgy to say the least but I don't pretend to know what happened. Building 7 collapsing in exactly the same orderly way should set alarm bells ringing though. 3 towers falling in such an orderly fashion, one not even being hit, what are the chances? it takes teams of demolition experts weeks/months to do that sort of thing normally.

This is clearly nonsense. The jets are captured on camera and were witnessed by hundreds of thousands of eye witnesses. How this is some how ‘dodgy’ is beyond me. The intensity of the fires caused the demolition, the floors weakened and the sheer weight of the structure made the buildings come down. Frankly it’s amazing that the buildings withstood the hit from a a fully laden 767 so well in the first place.
 
Lots of people interviewed on the day only reported hearing explosions though with no mention of hearing hulking great jets flying at extremely low altitude. The official story is dodgy to say the least but I don't pretend to know what happened. Building 7 collapsing in exactly the same orderly way should set alarm bells ringing though. 3 towers falling in such an orderly fashion, one not even being hit, what are the chances? it takes teams of demolition experts weeks/months to do that sort of thing normally.

and lets not forget about "lucky" Larry Silverstein.
 
This is clearly nonsense. The jets are captured on camera and were witnessed by hundreds of thousands of eye witnesses. How this is some how ‘dodgy’ is beyond me. The intensity of the fires caused the demolition, the floors weakened and the sheer weight of the structure made the buildings come down. Frankly it’s amazing that the buildings withstood the hit from a a fully laden 767 so well in the first place.
Do not waste your time debating with people who consume conspiracy on this one would be my advice. It’s a fruitless debate of “yea but”
 
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