MadelynIris
Refugee
This was posted on the board on my site http://www.aeroplanner.com a few moments ago. Thought I'd share.
Mark
I took off from CDW this morning to just bum around as usual and was
planning to do the VOR approach at FWN, when I climbed out to 2500, I saw
the smoke over the city coming out of WTC, I hit the throttle and went
direct to Alpine Tower where I joined the corridor, on 123.05 there was all
kinds of talk about a "commuter plane gone into WTC", meanwhile I was just
heading down the corridor and annoucing myself as usual, by the time I made
it to about Holland Tunnel.....
I see this airliner coming down in a bank, my first thought was, WTF is this
guy doing!??? Why is he diving so steep to take a look at the fire! ANd it's
an airliner!!! The next moment.... it hits the building.... I had my camera
in hand and snapped virtually a split second later after the impact....
Next... I didn't know what to do, but I headed out towards Sandy Hook,
called the approach and begged them for flight following, just GET ME OUTTA
HERE... they kept me on following until about COlts Neck VOR where they said
"unable" and told me I was on my own.... I tried to go back to CDW, tuned in
the tower... they couldn't hear me, but I could hear that TEB was closed and
they were about to get closed and told every aircraft to land.. gave up on
the thought of going back to CDW and landed at the first field in sight,
which turned out to be Central Jersey 47N, where a bunch of other awestruck
pilots where trying to get a grasp on what's going on.... After couple of
hours it calmed down and airport manager shutdown the place and gave me a
lfit back to Caldwell, where I picked up my car... the FBO was closed...
and now I'm just sitting at a Kinko's Copies on a rental computer trying to
get myself together and figure out what to do next. Probably just go get a
drink somewhere.
This is so f****ed up, I never felt so helpless, at some point I even feared
that people are gonna start shooting at any aircraft flying above them...
That's when it dawned on me to just land and deal with the rest of crap
later, which I did, I'm here.... I'm still sober...
From www.aeroplanner.com
Mark
Mark
I took off from CDW this morning to just bum around as usual and was
planning to do the VOR approach at FWN, when I climbed out to 2500, I saw
the smoke over the city coming out of WTC, I hit the throttle and went
direct to Alpine Tower where I joined the corridor, on 123.05 there was all
kinds of talk about a "commuter plane gone into WTC", meanwhile I was just
heading down the corridor and annoucing myself as usual, by the time I made
it to about Holland Tunnel.....
I see this airliner coming down in a bank, my first thought was, WTF is this
guy doing!??? Why is he diving so steep to take a look at the fire! ANd it's
an airliner!!! The next moment.... it hits the building.... I had my camera
in hand and snapped virtually a split second later after the impact....
Next... I didn't know what to do, but I headed out towards Sandy Hook,
called the approach and begged them for flight following, just GET ME OUTTA
HERE... they kept me on following until about COlts Neck VOR where they said
"unable" and told me I was on my own.... I tried to go back to CDW, tuned in
the tower... they couldn't hear me, but I could hear that TEB was closed and
they were about to get closed and told every aircraft to land.. gave up on
the thought of going back to CDW and landed at the first field in sight,
which turned out to be Central Jersey 47N, where a bunch of other awestruck
pilots where trying to get a grasp on what's going on.... After couple of
hours it calmed down and airport manager shutdown the place and gave me a
lfit back to Caldwell, where I picked up my car... the FBO was closed...
and now I'm just sitting at a Kinko's Copies on a rental computer trying to
get myself together and figure out what to do next. Probably just go get a
drink somewhere.
This is so f****ed up, I never felt so helpless, at some point I even feared
that people are gonna start shooting at any aircraft flying above them...
That's when it dawned on me to just land and deal with the rest of crap
later, which I did, I'm here.... I'm still sober...
From www.aeroplanner.com
Mark
