9/11: Flying Toward an Erratic Flight 93 & Airline Emergencies with Capt. Brian Schiff

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  @opusmax1 · 3 years ago

  “Scanning for mushroom clouds…”<br>That had to be the most surreal moment of their lives.

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• EL

  @elizabethhonce1677 · 2 years ago

  Trust me, as a passenger. Do not ever feel bad for locking yourself in the cockpit and for taking all these precautions. We passengers want you locked in the cockpit. You can trust that if something breaks out on board, we&apos;re going to take care of it. 9/11 taught us bloody-minded Americans that. We need you safely in the cockpit flying the plane.❤

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• HO

  @Hof79905 · 3 years ago

  Todd Beamer was that heros name on flight 93.

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• JR

  @jrose9378 · 3 years ago

  “Let’s roll” hero is Todd Beemer

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• CL

  @clintegbert3405 · 3 years ago

  I knew 3 aboard Flight 93, they were Flight attendants, one was a passenger returning home,

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• BE

  @bearowen5480 · 3 years ago

  Brian, I flew a 20 year career with Continental. That morning I was sleeping off jet lag at home in Colorado when I was abruptly awakened by my wife who told me to turn on the TV where I watched live with horror and disbelief as the second airplane flew into the World Trade Center. Life for all of us in the airline industry and the traveling public changed forever that horrible day.<br><br>Before 9/11, after top of climb, I, like you, really enjoyed strolling back through first class, schmoozing with the customers and thanking them for their business. Except for one occasion later when I flew a plane full of WWII veterans from Guam to Iwo Jima on the 60th anniversary of the battle on a Part 91 charter, I never was able to do that again. <br><br>Sad that such evil as displayed on that fateful sunny morning is still afoot in what was then our friendly skies.

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• DI

  @dilafng · 3 years ago

  Capt. Schiff is a picture of grace under pressure. I’d be happy to fly with him anytime!

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• CW

  @CWK090 · 1 year ago

  The copilot on Flight 77, that crashed into the Pentagon, was David Charlebois.<br>I used to teach at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. David was one of my students.

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• BI

  @billfajack2303 · 3 years ago

  He&apos;s a gifted story teller. A very worthwhile watch.

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• W7

  @W7LDT · 3 years ago

  Hearing these stories from pilots involved with 9/11 has been very interesting. &nbsp;Another interview you might want to do is with Captain Jack Jessup. &nbsp;He has a YouTube channel with a video titled 9/11 Remembered - My Experience. &nbsp;he was the last departure from Washington National. &nbsp;Shortly after takeoff, climbing north along the Potomac River and just passed the Pentagon, an American Airlines 757 passed right under him. &nbsp;He tells the story very well.

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• FL

  @FloridaGeorgia · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VjCglncO58&amp;t=2006">33:26</a> I LOVE that Capt. Schiff respectfully declined to answer that question.

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• BU

  @bullibill8277 · 3 years ago (edited)

  A great interview with your host and especially with Captain Shiff. &nbsp;He&apos;s a great guy that I flew with many times as a TWA &amp; AA flight attendant. &nbsp;You don&apos;t find &apos;em much sharper and nicer than Brian. &nbsp;I happened to be lucky on 9/11 and was off and watching things unfold on TV. &nbsp;My wife, also a flight attendant was busy boarding passengers onto her MD-80 in STL that morning bound unsuccessfully to SNA when all hell broke loose. &nbsp;More stories for some other time. &nbsp;I retired from flying after 44 years, and certainly miss the crews and passengers, but I don&apos;t miss the shenanigan&apos;s of the pandemic and post- pandemic days. &nbsp;Best of luck and thanks for a great interview with Capt. Shiff!<br><br>Bill Bowman

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