I had just landed from an SCT Tutor trip and was told by the eng team that an aircraft had flown into the WTC. I imagined it must have been an errant light aircraft but by the time I reached the crew room the second 767 had hit and all were glued to the TV. The shock when the first tower collapsed was physical. Then it was announced that one of the jets was an American Airlines 767, my sister was a pilot with AA flying 767s so I rushed home to make a call to the USA to find all my family over there worried sick as she had a trip that morning and since then nothing was heard. An hour or so later she phoned from Huston, where her aircraft had landed after all US air traffic was ordered to the ground! She had taken off about the same time as the hi-jacked jets but her route was from Miami to SFX. All the family were relieved that she was safe but if I had had access to a big red button that day then certain cities in the middle east might have been glassed that night!
