As pax en route to Bermuda I spent this day orbiting lands End at FL330 for 7 hours until we returned to Gatwick . None of us knew anything more than US Airspace had been closed and that we had to hold (as we had full fuel) until all the return transats were safely back on the ground.
Surreal, had lunch and later tea and just like the normal 7 hours to BDA but we went absolutely know here and arrived back to a very shaken and shocked Gatwick and TV monitors filled with smoke and talking heads.
Not a day I will forget that's for sure
R I P to all the victims, especially those innocents who died on the day and who died since then in the idiotic Bush Blair war on terror-we have all now seen where that lead us haven't we.
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