Don’t forget the Pentagon, and there was all kinds of unconfirmed reports of other attacks or things. It was panic, chaos and fear all over. For a while US airspace was completely shut down - every single non-military flight was grounded.
Yeah, absolutely. I remember there wasn't a good idea for a while about how badly the Pentagon had been damaged, too. Like, was it also smoking rubble? How vulnerable exactly would bringing down the Pentagon make us to more attacks--either from the same group or even opportunistic attacks from other sources?
And yeah.. no planes in the sky at all was almost eerie. There wasn't much call for military flights in my area, but I imagine in other areas it was just as bad to know anything flying over was either emergency military or, who knows, another hijacked plane?
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u/anothergaijin 13h ago
Don’t forget the Pentagon, and there was all kinds of unconfirmed reports of other attacks or things. It was panic, chaos and fear all over. For a while US airspace was completely shut down - every single non-military flight was grounded.