The little-known near-miss briefly made the news on 9/11, when 2,977 people were killed at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and on the four planes commandeered by radical Islamic terrorists.
A TWA pilot who narrowly averted collisions with hijacked planes headed to attack the World Trade Center and the US Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001, is being remembered 22 years later as an unsung hero.at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and on the four planes commandeered by Islamic terrorists.
Commanding the cockpit was “George,” said the flight attendant, who could recall only his first name. The pilot warned the crew “he’d be standing behind the door with an ax,” the New York attendant recalled. Passengers able to phone home “started screaming that the Pentagon was hit,” the flight attendant recalled.Then “proximity alarms” in the TWA cockpit warned of another plane flying within 1,000 feet.
The TWA crew arrived at the St. Louis hub two days later to applause, and learned just how close they came to the second skyjacked jet, the flight attendant said: “We missed their tail by 500 feet.”
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