During a recent move, I unearthed a notepad at my desk that had some old scribbles from a meeting on it (something about a verbal contract vs. a written contract, who know)

At the bottom, and written sideways, I had put these terse notes:

Both down

USAir – pentagon
maybe
one more on way
to wash
(747 down in PA)

State dept

That day, we couldn’t access any of the traditional news sites due to our network connection being overloaded with folks wanting news. IIRC, I pieced the above together by accessing a financial web site that was relaying the news from the Northeast. I had reached my sister by e-mail, she had listened on the speaker phone a replay of the last call from one of the flight attendants to their control people.

It was all too real.