September 11: FAA Closure of US Airspace
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2009
- This animation was created by NASA using FAA air traffic control data from September 11, 2001. It shows the rapid grounding of air traffic across the US, and redirection of incoming international traffic, in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Time is at lower left, number of planes in the air lower right. At 9:06am, FAA issued a ground stop to all traffic not yet departed that would encounter NY airspace ["tier one"- NY, DC, Boston, Cleveland] . A series of rapid decisions followed, including redirecting inbound traffic away from NY and warning airplanes in the air of potential cockpit intrusion. At 9:45am, FAA Command Center decided to close all US airspace for the first time in history. Within a few hours, all commercial air traffic was grounded. This animation is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum's "America by Air" exhibition.
My friend's dad was a pilot Flying over LA when it happened, he was ordered to land and when he asked why, ground control said that the airspace of the United States was closed and that the country is at state of war
That must have been terrifying for him. Maybe even thought that ground control was joking with him.
@@megakirbo4250 I doubt the controller would joke about something that serious .
They could have been more specific. To him that must have sounded like the start of a nuclear war. Why not just warn the pilot about possible hijackers?
@@vanaiki guess they were trying to warn the biggest number of planes as quick as possible
@vanaik because hindsight is 20/20. A lot of what we know of the events today were unclear to those in that moment.
Even the government was unsure exactly what was going on, so the panic button was pressed. Most in the downstream of information flow would probably assume only war can push the government to shut down the entire airspace
The international planes that were already in US airspace were allowed to land immediately. When the order came down a lot of that traffic had already crossed the border from Europe. The planes that hadn't crossed the border were typically rerouted to New Foundland. Something like 40 planes and 10,000 people were diverted to small airports in New Foundland. There were a lot of nice stories about the locals welcoming people into their homes.
Hope this story is true
It is absolutely true. @@Hyraladen
@@Hyraladenthe musical Come From Away tells the stories of the planes redirected to Newfoundland. It’s a wonderful and heartwarming musical.
@@Hyraladen it's very true, I've never met a Newfie I didn't like. Lord tundering Jesus
From what I heard international planes that were in the immediate airspace surrounding New York were ordered to leave US airspace within a designated timeframe or they would be shot down.
It was creepy that day, I was living near a commuter field and the sky always had contrails from that airport and the international field. For days, the skies were just - empty. One of those things you didn't notice until something was missing.
And the weather on the actual day was so perfect, the kind of day where you step outside and say, "wow"
Once all the planes were down, the sky was just so empty....not a puff of cloud, not a whisper of contrail, nothing.
@@melissasaint3283It’s weird how after the worst day in modern US history or after any severe weather that destroys entire cities and kills people. How calm and pretty the sky is.
Well Maldivian airspace will be empty in midnight
@@westernsavage2313 I noticed that too, it is crazy
I seen two military jets flying around 9:00am over Philadelphia coming from the direction of NY or North New Jersey heading towards the south southwest
I’ve heard so many people talk about what it was like not hearing a plane for days. People hearing birds chirping for the first time. Crazy stuff man
i was born after the events, but i live on the flightpath to newark airport from the south and close to an airforce base so i can't imagine it just being silent for a week
@@the.abhiram.r I was young but I still could sense the silence. Incredible stuff
Yea, looking up and seeing nothing in the sky, especially living near a major city with 2 busy airports. Was very Erie.
It was one of the first few things I noticed as I went to fuel up my car before the mad dash panic, that I didn’t see con trails in the sky or planes.
Usually you could look up and randomly see a plane going by, but that day…..there was nothing. The world felt different too. Everything had changed. I was 18 and realized, war had come to America again.
I could actually feel the silence. There was also not one homicide in Charlotte for the rest of the year.
The first days after the Covid Lockdown started had a similar feel.
One of the crazy stories about this day involves a guy in Florida who ended up being bitten by a venomous snake on that day. They permitting a single flight from San Francisco with a fighter jet escort to bring antivenim to the man.
even 9/11 has a florida man story
@@the.abhiram.rlmaoooo
The person who decided to ground everything had some balls to call it and undoubtedly saved lives.
Allon Shaftoe and just remember it was his first day taking over that job. He'd worked in the industry for a long time, but that was the first day he was in charge.
how did he save lives? Most of the attacks were finished by then.
@@bluesclues132 it is widely believed that there were more attacks planned in other cities (L.A., Houston, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, ect). Soon after, the order was given to shoot down any hostile aircraft, so, any aircraft that ignored the order to land, or was acting in the same way as the hijacked flights would be shot down. The order to ground all flights and close U.S. Airspace saved lives.
@@bluesclues132 there could have been more planned later in the day
Very convenient!
That was just incredible that they could land all those aircraft in that short a period of time.
They were forced to really, the air force got clearance from Bush to shoot down any plane that didn't land after being ordered to.
Well duh they would be shot down otherwise
@@DeathhAngel1 That's not the complete point. Even though planes cruise at hundreds of mph, it still takes time and lots of calculations to safely land one plane. Now, add all the US airports and multiply that by how many planes had to land. It wouldn't simply be like the day before Christmas Eve in JFK airport.
@@2dheethbarYou are actually way off on this one. All the work to land planes is done ahead of time. Engineers and pilot training put an ungodly amount of work into figuring out how to land planes fast and safely.
The calculations are minimal as well. You could conceivably do it by radar, or even VFR if needed. The runway traffic would actually be far easier than normal in this situation because there are no takeoffs. All ATC has to do is line them up for landing at the nearest logical airport. Pow pow pow and they're down.
The only real calculation is landing weight. If the plane is grounded minutes after takeoff with full passengers and fuel, it cannot be safely landed. Such planes would either have to dump fuel or cruise a circuit for a few hours
I know man the whole thing happened in under 20 seconds that's wild
On this day I was living in Memphis, Tn. which happens to be the home hub of FedEx. At any time of the day or night it seems like you can hear airplanes approaching and taking off from Memphis International. This was especially true at my apartment complex which was less than a mile from there. When I realized what was happening I drove to an observation point close (semi) to the airport. I've never seen so many planes circling that airport in my whole life. They were parking planes on any bare spot of pavement they could find. After they ran out of space they started diverting planes to the then closed Millington Naval Airstation for additional parking space. That evening at the usual FedEx rush hour it was absolutely dead silent. For the first time I could hear birds and crickets chirping. The eeriest feeling and cold chills ran all thru my body. I hope I never again experience anything like that.
Same thing here in NYC. We always hear jet engines, from Laguardia right over head, JFK at a 15 thousand feet over head and even newark also at 15 thousand feet. That day, it was dead silent, only every now and then could you hear the fighter jets go by, other than that silent. Only added to the oddity that was that day.
Damn that’s sad
My high school, Ben Davis HS, was a few miles from the Indianapolis airport. Everyone on the west side was accustomed to planes overhead all day. And then there weren't any, and it was weird.
The thing I'll never forget was the following Monday, 6 days later. My gym class is playing basketball outside. A plane flies over. The first one we have seen or heard in a week. The only plane we've looked at for the last week is the one on constant replay on TV, the one used as a weapon of intentional mass destruction. And the wreckage in the ground in Pennsylvania. Planes look a little different now.
We all stopped in our tracks, looked up, and just stared for several seconds. Then, wordlessly, we went back to playing basketball.
It was just around first break on the hospital construction site where I was working, when the apprenti came back with the food order and related what was on the TV news. Like many we figured he was pulling our leg(s). But as I went back to my work I heard the same from other trades and plugged in a radio and tuned in to the CBC. Of course that is all that was on.
At the time I reflected back on the history I had read and equated 9/11 to Pearl Harbour. Having spent time in the Army (CAF), my thoughts went along the lines of 'Holy Fuck who are they going to nuke?!!".
What was it like during COVID lockdowns?
look at how many planes came in top right at the end. Huge respect to how ATCs handled this so quickly
more like huge respect to Canada for grounding all the planes US refuses to accept.
@@asdfqwer7841 when I said ATCs I meant Canada's
@@asdfqwer7841 The FAA issued a ground most planes landed in canada because it was in proximity.
they were probably warned like 3 weeks earlier so yea
@@beavercat7925 you're delusional
i like how you can see the Canada diversions building up. Thanks for the huge help, Canada!
Canada will always be our ally. There's no chance we're ever going to war with them, or ever build a wall to keep them out.
@@jackson5116 before you build a wall to them, they build a wall to keep u out :-)
@@Lorem_the_Ipsum it really is sad how things have come to be. I hope things will change again.
@@N3ASL8EN we good fam. Come over next week for thanksgiving. Great turkey, cold beer, and legal weed.
Really, Canada proved itself such a good neighbor when that happened.
We owe you!
It's creepy knowing that somewhere, Flight 11, 175, 77, and 93 dissapeared in this radar
Damn in 30 minutes they were able to land 50% of the planes. Nice job ATC.
I was 19 on 9/11. One of the most chilling things I remember about that day was how silent the sky was. I never realized how much noise there actually is up there. We just don't really notice because of how normal it is. We drown it out or don't really pay attention. Combine that with the fact that pretty much everyone went home and stayed inside glued to their TV instead of being out and about, mowing their lawns, playing in the yard, etc. If you walked outside in the afternoon that day it was like being on the surface of the Moon. At least in my neighborhood. It really was chilling, and crazy to think that part of the experience alone will end up being forgotten in the history books. Let alone ever be experienced again by any other generation.
I wasn’t even born until 5 years later
Makes you wonder how many other things like that have been forgotten throughout the years. How did people in London or Berlin react when WWI began or the soldiers in the trenches when it ended? Sadly we may never know.
Is it like when covid happened? Bc no one was outside.
I wasn't born when 9/11 happened and i did not live in USA
@@phantomjosh2148Goddamn. So, many young'ns.
A plane is not that loud
I was 12 when 9/11 occured and lived not too far from JFK. When planes passed over, the house would shake at times. After not hearing planes for a while after 9/11; I woke up to an extremely load noise and everything in the house started shaking like it was an earthquake. It was a fighter jet passing over. One of the scariest feeling I've ever experienced. At least once a year I get this recurring dream of the US being attacked where I'm always looking out that living room window and see hundreds of planes. I'm guessing that's where it came from.
I was living in Northern Virginia during the 9/11 incidents. 9/11 was on a Tuesday. On Thursday morning, I heard the sound just as you described. I didn't really know what it was, and still don't. I turned on my TV because I felt like it must be a new incident. But there was nothing about it. I imagine it was a fighter jet going supersonic at low altitude. I'm guessing the pilot took advantage of the fact that there was no other aircraft in the sky and he just wanted to hotdog it a bit over the DC area. The noise lasted a good deal longer than it seemed like it should. Strange that no one mentioned it. Everyone had to have heard it.
Those jets circled DC for something like 2 1/2 years, 24 hours a day, but I only heard that crazy noise that one time.
@jonathanwoods9843 I know a Bit about Fighter jets,They aren’t allowed to go Supersonic At low altitudes,The “Sonic boom” produced Can Rupture eardrums and Break windows.
Even At fairly low speeds they are pretty loud.
I was on a Road trip and I was stopping in a Culver’s,And I heard a F-35 Flying over Nearby.
I can’t imagine It was going Terribly fast,But It was loud Nonetheless
@@jonathanwoods9843fighter jets will never go supersonic at low altitudes. I’ve heard a bunch of fighter jets including the f22 and f35. The reason why they are so loud is their afterburners. I work at an airport and there is a noticeable difference in loudness between an airliner and a fighter jet.
I live in Boston suburbs so theres plenty of airplanes around all the time. But they often to fighter jet flyovers for things like red sox home openers or world series or whatever and MAN the volume level of a fighterjet is like on another level compared to an airliner. It's crazy.
Your comment reminded me of a plane that went supersonic or whatever you call it in English. In my country there's this event that happens every 4 years where you can see planes doing cool tricks, days before the event a plane went supersonic and the ground started shaking. I thought Russians were bombarding us or a plane crashed somewhere near. It was the first time I thought I was going to die for real. Someone even told me that people ran out of the shopping center because they thought the ceiling was collapsing.
Look at how busy the east coast airspace is on any given day. It must be exhausting working as an ATC in cities like NYC or Boston, yet on 9/11 they got all the flights on the ground by 12:15. I applaud their work effort on this day.
And that was 20 years ago.
The procedures are extremely well established. Pilots and Controllers knew exactly what to do. Planes were stacked around the holding beacons and cleared off the bottom lelev of the stack every 2 minutes for all runways possible as nothing was taking off. It looks insane but actually really well prepared to do it. Stressful because it was every airport I stead of just one with bad delays.
I was at the top of the Sierras, solo rock climbing with a buddy and no ropes. The stillness combined with the lack of contrails was incredible.
Tugging eachother off I bet. Taking turns of the one armed rudder.
Wdym?
@@SomebodySomeone-xh9kvas in even in the isolated sierra nevada mountains, there is still noise and movement as all the air traffic is flying over to the west coast cities. Since every flight was grounded, it was completely still with nothing to break the silence.
I live in the NJ/NY area and I remember hearing military jets flying that day. When I heard a commercial jet several days (a week?) later, I was frightened.
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You can see all the planes above Nova Scotia coming in from Europe still in the air when the rest have grounded. They almost look so confused- lost on what to do now that they can't even enter the USA.
That was ME on one of those planes! Read my story above!
A musical was made about it. _Come From Away._
I was living in Los Angeles on September of 2001. My sister, who lived in the apartment below mine, had just flown to Puerto Rico to be at our dad’s side as he lay in a hospital bed close to death. I don’t remember when she left. What I do remember is that on September 11th, I was home in bed. Somehow, I aggravated my low back pain and had to miss work. I woke up some time after 10:00 a.m. I noticed that I had a new message on my answering machine. It was my sister calling from Puerto Rico. “Mija, don’t be scared but terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center and they knocked both buildings down.” The message might’ve said something about the 2 other flights. I don’t remember. What I do remember is that when I heard about the World Trade Center, I said the following words out loud; “What’s she talking about?! They couldn’t have fallen. Those buildings are HUGE!”
I remember walking to the living room very slowly because of my back pain after listening to the message, turning on the tv, and laying down in the twin bed in the living room to watch the replay of both towers going down over and over. I realized then that since air space was closed, my sister was stuck in Puerto Rico for who knows how long. Air travel resumed on September 13th. My sister opted to stay with dad. He died on Friday, September 14th. We’d just lost mom that April. That was a not a good year to put it mildly.
Now cut to a couple of weeks later. Air travel is back. Our apartment building was very close to downtown L.A. in fact, I could see the tallest building from my patio. It used to be called The Library Tower. It’s the one that the aliens blew up in the movie Independence Day. One day I was driving to my place down the streets. I noticed an airplane flying kinda low and making a turn over downtown. From my angle, I thought it was another hijacked plane aiming for that building. Man that freaked me out. Later on I mentioned that to my sister and she told me that she’d seen it and thought the same thing. That particular flight only did that once a week. It scared me every. Single. Time.
Well, the 9/11 attacks _were_ actually comprised of 4 planes. Everyone knows about the two that struck the World Trade Center buildings of course, but people often forget about the 3rd one that hit the Pentagon, and the 4th that crashed in rural Pennsylvania; the last one was supposedly meant to hit the White House, but it failed due to the passengers trying to break into the cockpit, which forced the hijackers to crash it early.
@@invalid_user_handle You’re completely right. That’s why I said that my sister “might’ve” mentioned the other 2 hijacked planes in the message she left but I don’t remember. She mentioned the World Trade Center first. I think my brain was so overwhelmed hearing about that.
At 9:42, five minutes after the Pentagon was hit, Ben Sliney said "That's it! I'm landing everyone!" - "Regardless of destination, Let's get them on the ground!" Every one of the thousands of planes in the sky were preparing to land. All but one, flight 93. I think you can just barley see it disappear over southwestern PA between 0:12 and 0:13.
They were the only set of passengers that fought back because they were the only ones fully aware that these were not "normal" hijackings ("normal" being the terrorists making demands, landing the plane at an airport, and releasing the hostages when they're met, or when the hostages are rescued) They knew their plane was about to be turned into a fuel-laden guided missile, and stopped It from making it to its target. (The Capitol or White House, likely the Capitol)
They were all heros that day.
Well spotted
I grew up 25 miles from Manhattan. I was in my 7th grade Greek history class that morning when our teacher came in and said an airplane hit the WTC. None of us knew what was happening. I just remember people being pulled out of classes crying. When I got home from school, my mom made my brothers and I stay in the kitchen to do our homework, she refused to let us watch tv, she didn’t want to expose us to what had happened, especially my little brothers. I’ll never forget that day for as long as I live.
I was driving right by SLC when this happened. I have never seen so many planes in the sky at one time. They seemed to be coming from everywhere.
this gave me goosebumps.
oh my gosh me too
Same here.
Montreal International aiport managed to received most of the planes heading to north eastern coast in 30 minutes... Impressive
The US Forest Service was allowed to continue flying fire fighting tankers out of 2 airports in CA and ID.
I remember taking my 13 year old son out into the front yard and saying "look up. There are no planes in the sky. You will never see this again."
That’s giving my body an emotion I cannot fully explain. That’s just fucking crazy.
later: he saw that again when he traveled once to a half way remote area
@@0FFICERPROBLEM I live in Wedowee Alabama (come find me, FAFO), small ass town about 800 people, we live under 2 airways. Their all over the US, you’ll see em anywhere.
"You will never see this again."
We can only hope.
I remember listening to an air traffic controller talk about working that day and I cannot imagine the stress. Every time any plane veered even slightly off course on their way to getting grounded everyone’s stomachs sank and thought they were about to watch another plane get hijacked. He says he still has dreams about it. What a nightmare.
My father was laid off from his piloting job shortly after the attacks, though I was not born until two years later. Though I believe we need to keep pushing forward, it’s a deep rooted fear of mine that something like this will happen again
Eh, he’s still a sexy one old granny I bet. Tell him I’d happily park my skin plane into his rear entrance
ur father was a great pilot shame, what happened to him
A day that’ll never be forgotten in American History.
Eh, give it 150 years
@@King_Zog_I I barely saw anything about it this year, in 2023. Imagine year 2151 lol
@@Gandhi_Physique 9/11 is going to be a thing no matter how hard they try to hide it.
Airports training is heavily regulated on what happened on 9/11.
Training, security and all that is literally based on it.
Plus you have generations of people who live here who were genuinely affected by it even if it wasn’t directly impacting them . Those stories will also be passed down generations.
9/11 will never be forgotten.
@@westernsavage2313 yeah, they burned down the White House in 1814 and you don’t hear people talking about that in 2023 now do you?
@@westernsavage2313 hell, people barely know Peal harbor anymore. Most people don’t know when it happened. Where it happened. And barely know who did it.
It will become something. People learn I. Their history class and that’s about it
Fun Fact: _ONE_ plane was allowed to fly after the call to ground all flights to save a 63 year old snake handlers life. The anti-venom he needed was in California, and he was in Florida. It’s interesting to think about
Did they managed to save the old man tho?
@@lmao8353apparently yes his name was Lawrence Van Sertima
I was in morning marching band practice, in flyover country, as the events were (unknown to us) happening. While waiting for the flutes to get sorted out (as usual) I started watching a passenger jet high above pass over. I leaned to my buddy and said "just think how much fuel one of those carries". When we came in from practice our instructor informed us the news. If I had the data used by the video I could probably pinpoint which flight I was watching.
0:05 first flight (AA11) took off @8:00
0:06 2nd flight (AA175) took off @8:14
0:06 3rd flight (AA77) took off @8:20
0:08 4th flight (United93) took of 8:40
0:07 north tower hit @8:46
0:09 south tower hit @9:03
0:11 pentagon hit @9:37
0:13 flight 93 crashed @10:03
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I read this somewhere, apparetnly ONE plane was allowed to fly as it was on a medical mission, it was given an escort by the USAF for protection
I speculate it may have been transporting a load of organs for transplant. I don't mean as like a black market thing or some conspiracy thing. There are people who actually do this, they are couriers for donated organs. I expect a more officious title exists.
They get to get where they're going and spare no expense. Back when I still drove rideshare I picked some guy up from the local airport, luggage and a very very curious box adorned with many bright labels on any side. These were the sort that announce important objects, yellow and red ones.
Alarmed, I inquired if it was something dangerous. He explained what it was and what he did. The private plane he was on had a mechanical problem and had to land. Immediately he got another one chartered locally, as close to that airport as possible. Same night and everything within an hour or so. I drove him to a different rural airport 40 minutes away. Before that airport was completely beyond the horizon beyond me heading back I noted a little plane already taking off in my side mirror.
@@RocketPropelledGuyapparently it was snake antivenom I found an article I’ll post a link but if you don’t see it RUclips ate the reply
I remember Chicago being dead silent that day. Not a single engine roaring overhead from midway
On 9/11 I lived about 30 minutes away from DC.. I remember sitting outside listening to the news on the radio and two F-15s came screaming over my house heading straight for DC. Was pretty wild
It’s actually impressive and eerie how fast they were able to get that done
I remember looking up at the sky and it being total silence. It was erie.
It’s fascinating watching the ‘Flights’ value in the lower right slowly build up to a bit over 4,000, then pretty quickly plummet to around 700.
It was very weird only seeing F/16's and military planes in the sky for a few days after.
I like how you just see in the top right all the flights from Canada to the USA all just swarmed about aimlessly with no plot
Not all planes were down. I filmed a large black jet over central ILL that late afternoon. My kids and I were outside. I went in and got my camcorder, a Panasonic,and caught it banking south and then banking east. The presidents jet had already gone over our area a couple hours earlier that day.
probably an AWAC or one of those doomsday planes
According to the EPA, it was the cleanest the air had been in 100 years
Yair that's garbage. Theres 33,000 times more cars in the world than planes And even the biggest planes are more efficient than cars per person.
@@r08800 He doesn't mean pollution from combustion, he means the contrails that usually hang around in the sky and are much more viable.
@@firesoldier343 ya know those contrails are just water vapor right? Just the same as when you breath out on a cold day.
@@r08800 yeah I know that, pretty much the same things as clouds. When he mentioned the EPA saying it was the cleanest they have seen, I was assuming they were referring to how the skies were "cleaner" of contrails, thus less sunlight was being reflected off of them.
Whats does the EPA says of this after the global pandemic?
Lol I love that one guy flooring it heading eastbound out of RDU 0:16
Wonder what kind of plane is that
getting recommended this on the 11th of September…
same
This really is fascinating, within an hour most of the planes vanished.
I remember after this president Bush thanked the British for their help, but didn't mention Canada. When called out on it, Bush said you don't thank a brother. I was like wait what?
I remember that day clearly. I was at home and I still remembering seeing the number of planes circling Vancouver Canada as they were all coming in to land. Then the bright blue sky for days after from no air trafic. Ill never see the sky that blue again.
Reminds me of stepping on the anthill as a kid and watching until they stopped scrambling around
9/11 happened the day before my 19th bday. That night me and all of our friends met up at my house which sat on the bluff overlooking the harbor of Port Washington, WI. Milwaukee is due south and Chicago not much further south than Milwaukee. At any given time you can see a lot of air traffic over Lake Michigan coming into O'hare or even Mitchell. What makes the planes so easy to spot at great distances was the lack of light pollution over Lake Michigan. That night the only planes we saw were two fighter jets headed south over the coast of Lake Michigan. Way out in the Lake. They make a much different sound than an airliner. One was much lower than the other who was flying top cover. At one point it seemed the lower plane must have engaged afterburners cause I could see the double engines emit a blue glow as the planes flew past. I think they were F-15s. The lower plane gained elevation pretty quick as they zoomed past our sleepy little town. Those were the only planes i saw for 2 nights and days in the sky. When you become so accustomed to seeing the blinking lights of planes coming to and from overhead every night then one day there is nothing. Nothing. It was chilling. Especially when the only planes you saw at all were two F-15s flying what equated to a combat air patrol over your town.
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very interesting story. i don't see any other coverage of this on RUclips. thanks!
I was in 9th grade when this happened. The thing I remember most about that day is my band director being such a hardass and making us do after school band practice. There were so many fighter jets going back and forth over us that we couldn't hear a thing he was yelling at us. Completely pointless.
I can only imagine how many callouts had to be made to coordinate all of that
The logistics of this is absolutely insane. We humans are remarkable.
No, you're really not
Yeah, it's pretty crazy how we managed to stop a complex system like this as fast as possible
“The first day of the job can’t be that hard!”
The first day of the job:
Nice catch! That was probably the Air Force after the incident...
It looks like my kitchen floor when i turn on the lights.
crazy how 4 of these planes on this video were the ones that crashed
0:16 That one plane leaving North Carolina is odd to me
Yeah, was wondering who that was. They left in a hurry.
@@crucial0072 Most definitely
at the time, there was no way of knowing how many more flights were compromised and could be used as deadly weapons.
16-18 seconds. check out the fast mover going east from between north and south Carolina over the ocean. Cool.
I always wondered what kind of plane that was and where it was going
13 years 😱
I was 4 when 9/11 happened and went to my Grandma's house (who is Japanese) and thought she had Japanese news on. I thought 9/11 happened in Japan for a few weeks lmao
Remarkable video!
The air traffic practically stopped after the south tower collapse. Crazy stuff.
cool to see thanks Smithsonian!
What is that aircraft at 0:16 that is due East? Flying very rapidly....
I watched a documentary once that said there were either 1 or 2 f15's ordered east because of miscommunication, that may very well be the plane(s).
Scrambled fighters from Ohio.
Well, your typical airliners usually travel at around 0.7 to 0.8 Mach. So, about 70-80% the speed of sound, or roughly 600 mph. An F-15, for contrast, has a max speed of over 1,600 mph, almost three times as fast.
Fighter jets, protecting the home land from foreign enemies.
A pilot flying home to poop
Wow, almost all the planes coming inbound from Europe had to be routed to Canada. I had known about that but was cool to see happen.
Look how all the fights coming in from Europe had to be immediately diverted to nova scotia. I bet the people on those flights were pissed.
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0:08 first plane hits
It was weird not seeing any planes for awhile after that. Hell the amount of planes still don't seem like the amount that used to fly.
Was there an aircraft carrier in the gulf of Mexico at the time? Some of the planes just disapeared in the middle of the ocean there
I remember that day.... we had a 20 mile hell endurance event scheduled in the Army.... then everything changed
It was wild, only thing flying was our military tankers, transports and fighters.
Wow, Denver and Michigan had a busy day.
it was like turning on the lights in a roach infested kitchen
The really fast one at 17 seconds
What was that flight at 16 to 18 seconds moving directly East from the southern tip of North Carolina, then it just disappeared. Looked like it was going Mach 5 or something.
My elementary school bus driver was on a plane heading to the US back from England and they were forced to turn around about 3/4 of the way there
@TangoDelta29 Good catch! Now what do you suppose that is?
im not an expert, but o do believe something happened at 9:50am
A lot of people wondered why ATC was having a hard time ‘seeing’ planes with no transponders. I remember that they got some flak for it. The east coast air traffic was saturated during the times when the planes were hijacked. They selected the busiest times so they would be all but invisible.
Varig had on the morning of 09/11 two flights to United States.
One coming from Guarulhos to Los Angeles with final destination Nagoya,Japan and other from Nagoya to Los Angeles with final destination Rio de Janeiro.The closure of airspace forced one to divert to Mexico City and other to back to Japan.
I remember my mom and dad telling me that the skies were so quiet. Not a single plane in sight for days. The only planes they saw were military air craft here and there.
Chilling
I live within 10 miles of Detroit metro airport. I remember it was weird not seeing or hearing air planes for that short time. Erie.
this is truly harrowing...
Ahh I see, thanks for the reply.
You can clearly see how all the planes are coming in over the jet stream
Wow, airspace is really crowded in the eastcoast
Still very earlier morning across the west, you can see where 7am is on this map as it’s where the traffic gets busier.
The eastern half has most of the us population
The east coast of the US (if you split it in half) has 2/3rd of the population. Makes sense.
I didn’t exist yet but it’s cool they landed the planes so fast.
Seeing as the whole clip is being played at 2-4x speed, it looks like it was just a plane leaving Wilmington or thereabouts on its way across the Atlantic.
seeing all the pro canada comments makes me so happy. We are always here for you. god bless the USA.
The top right corner shows the best example of planes being diverted away form US airspace. Although there seems to be an army of planes right behind them landing in Maine it seems.
Those would have gone to airports around Montreal.
God damn that's a lot of planes
wow very quick
I cant remember when the airspace started opening up again to commercial traffic
I seems to me about four days.
@@lisabetty4086 I live in a deep odd corner of flyover country were seeing planes flying above is a legit form of entertainment. And it took a while for airspace to go back to it's normal traffic level.
Insane the amount of planes on the East Coast holy shit
Hey I have a quick question for the creator of this video, could I use this video for my social studies project
Airsoft and More did you use the video
@@contentwithchaz8916 I hope he's not still waiting for a reply 😂
I was still in my mother when I was a baby, ready to be born. I was supposed to be born on 9/11, but apparently I never made any attempt to leave.
I remember my mom told me how that my dad saw the news on the tv while she was at the hospital. That the towers have fallen. It was so quiet in building, nothing but complete shock.