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Hijackers Destroy Two Aircraft And A Third Collides With A Field In PennsylvaniaSEPTEMBER 11, 2001 · 16:27
At 8:47 this morning four aircraft were taken over in the space of forty minutes. Two flights and the World Trade Center no longer exist. The third flight hit a field in Pennsylvania. This is the whole story as this newspaper knows it at four in the afternoon, and it will be wrong.
THE PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN FROM A HELICOPTER AND MAY NOT BE ACCURATE
( FILE PHOTO )
THE PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN FROM A HELICOPTER AND MAY NOT BE ACCURATE
We do not yet know what to publish, and we will be reporting what we know and what we do not, and we will mark the difference.
NEW YORK, September 11 -- Four passenger aircraft were hijacked this morning. Two struck the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan; both towers collapsed within two hours. A third struck the Pentagon. A fourth, which departed from Newark, struck a field in Somers County, Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m.
The number of people confirmed dead is not yet known and is certainly higher than the number announced so far. Emergency services in New York are asking people who are uninjured to stop walking toward the site and to go home, because more people are dying in the streets around it than in the buildings.
This newspaper has been publishing since a horse-powered press and has never had to report anything like this. We will keep publishing. We do not yet know what to publish, and we will be reporting what we know and what we do not, and we will mark the difference.
All three networks have gone to continuous coverage without commercials. There is no advertisement on the air right now. Please stay in front of a television.
Corrections: none so far. Published items are never corrected, they are replaced,
and the replacement keeps the original in the archive, where nobody will look for it.
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register_dwight
Joined: Sep 2003 · Posts: 604
· Newark, NJ · 2 minutes later
my cousin was on the first flight out of Boston. i am not going to write anything else here. please just know that i know.
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Nora's_Dad
Joined: Oct 1999 · Posts: 5120
· Flint, MI · an hour later
i keep refreshing. it has been eight hours. i have not moved from this chair. i do not think i have blinked.
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TK
the_government_knows
Joined: Aug 2001 · Posts: 3420
· Classified · same afternoon
they are saying it was planned. i was there in 1993 when the first one was tried and stopped and everyone said that couldn't happen here. so plan on it.
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AskDr_Internet
Joined: Mar 2003 · Posts: 3105
· the www · that evening
i would like everyone reading this to know that the person who sat next to me at a bar in March is missing and i am very frightened and i do not know who to tell.
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TruthTeller69
Joined: Mar 2003 · Posts: 654
· Akron, OH · the next morning
the whole world is in my kitchen. my mother made tea. it is very quiet apart from the television.
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just_passing_through
Joined: Dec 2003 · Posts: 34
· nowhere in particular · the following day
i am an old man and i have seen a lot and i have never seen this. nobody in this thread has seen this. that is why i am writing in it at 3am.
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xX_XBOX_Xx
Joined: Jan 2003 · Posts: 1320
· redmond · two days later
posting this so it exists somewhere in case, i don't know, in case somebody needs it in twenty years. 8:47. two towers. a field in pennsylvania. that's all.
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SgtPeppersGhost
Joined: Jul 2001 · Posts: 1455
· Liverpool · a week later
MY COUSIN WAS ON THE FLIGHT THAT DID NOT LAND. HE IS ALIVE. HE CALLED HIS MOTHER FROM THE STREET. I AM NOT OKAY BUT I AM ALIVE.
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RageQuitRita
Joined: Oct 2004 · Posts: 22
· Denver, CO · 2 minutes later
i have never agreed with this site more than i do right now and i have never read it more carefully. every word is true and marked true. that's all you can ask.
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DELETED_BY_MODS
Joined: May 2003 · Posts: 5
· banned · an hour later
the reporter said they'd mark the difference between what they know and what they don't. this thread is the only place I've read that distinction maintained for eleven hours. thank you.
House rules, posted since the beginning and enforced by one person:
be the kind of commenter who would be tolerable in person. do not correct people's grammar
unless it is fun. no fonts larger than 11 pixels. this is not a newspaper. it is a
website.
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