PA120 From Denmark, joined Feb 2004, 57 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 2899 times:
Just flown with United on several domestic flights, I wondered if they turned off the live ATC when they realised what was happening that awful day. Did pax hear what was going on? Just courious, but I guess you sometimes can get more information than you really needed!!!
EK413 From Australia, joined Nov 2003, 3912 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2534 times:
727200er
My limited understanding is that most aircraft in the skies had all forms of IFE turned off. I may be wrong however.
I think you are right about the IFE turned off on 9/11. My best mate flew into Sydney on SQ221 SIN-SYD on 9/11 and he didn't have a clue what happen during his flight reason being he didn't have any IFE (was switched off).
Aguilo From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 243 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 2290 times:
Kind of surprising that people on a flight to SYD or on any flights not going to the US would care so much about 9/11 as awful an event as it was though...
Fritzi From United Arab Emirates, joined Jun 2001, 2762 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 2267 times:
Kind of surprising that people on a flight to SYD or on any flights not going to the US would care so much about 9/11 as awful an event as it was though...
If you are onboard an airplane and you suddenly find out that some people are currently using them as bombs, im quite sure that many pax would go bezerk, even though this was happening on the other side of the earth...
AA777MIA From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 686 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2143 times:
My understanding is that during the attacks, ATC was trying to keep things calm, reason being, they did not want to alert any other potential sleepers already in the cockpits. Are there any from the flight deck here flying that day???
Neptunescar From Maldives, joined Dec 2003, 104 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1979 times:
on my flight MIA SFO the IFE was switched off as soon as the captain was given the orders to land...it was switched on temporarily to inform pax of new destination, (in our case, OKC) but was off again in less than 2 minutes. all audio was also switched off.
there were no announcements on our flight. the cabin crew didnt tell us anything, though they were clearly upset, some were in tears.
what was very eerie, was that there was a program on one channel from Discovery, talking about what would happen if an earthquake struck new york, and an expert came on and mentioned all the major buildings in NYC, and said, 'the twin towers would not fall...' but at that exact moment, they had already been struck by the planes.
Cutecrew21 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 12 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1874 times:
Kind of surprising that people on a flight to SYD or on any flights not going to the US would care so much about 9/11 as awful an event as it was though...
As Cabin Crew/Flight Attendant it don't matter what remote part of the world somthing like this happens... it always brings it home... its a risky business in this day in age! for both flight and cabin staff! Everytime I hear of anything like this I can't help but think what they must have thought, how they reacted and what was the last thing to go through their mind.
God only knows how I would react.... all the training we are put through by airline never quite prepares you for the day someone pulls out a knife and is putting at risk you and your 365 passengers.
WindowSeat From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1307 posts, RR: 59 Reply 8, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1783 times:
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