9-11-2001 what time did you hear about it ?.

[Wild Bill]

Remember this old thread on ATS , which asked people from outside of America to chime in then use the world clock to figure out the time difference between where point A and B was , maybe a mod ( Armap )  can post it  and some of the answers .

The UK is 5 hours ahead of NY   8.57 am in NY which would be 1.57 PM .

[Oldcarpy2]

I'm in the UK.  We were about to have our chimney swept.  The guy came in and said "They're having some trouble in America" so we turned on the news just as the second plane hit, live.

Mrs C thought it was a film but then it was obviously all too real.

The night before we were playing New York Minute by Don Henley.  Spooky lyrics.

[Kwaka]

Melbourne is +10 GMT., which was around 11:57PM. Did not sleep that night.

[Wild Bill]

I'm in the UK.  We were about to have our chimney swept.  The guy came in and said "They're having some trouble in America" so we turned on the news just as the second plane hit, live.

Mrs C thought it was a film but then it was obviously all too real.

The night before we were playing New York Minute by Don Henley.  Spooky lyrics.

I remember that day very clearly and have talked to a LOT of people over the years about this event ,   IT was the AM  here !!! .

I too thought I was watching some cheap movie ☺

[Wild Bill]

Just in https://web.archive.org/web/202208171310...970095/pg1

many thanks to Armap for locating this 

[Pandapower]

I was walking into the library in 5th grade and they had the cart out watching the news then the second plane hit the tower.

[Bush Master]

I have a lil brush-with-9/11 story

I was invited by Audi of America to display some new cars at WTC Plaza on 9/11, but bailed out the last minute.

It was timed at noon, with an area roped off. It ended up the caravan stopped in NJ and could see the smoke, at a minimum.

My friend in NY was like, I can't believe you have a 9/11 story, but are from Philly.

I mean, it's not like I was part of the plot, but I was in that arena. It's kinda scary, regardless.

[BeTheGoddess]

I saw the first plane hit.

[BeTheGoddess]

Melbourne is +10 GMT., which was around 11:57PM. Did not sleep that night.

you're an hour out. It was just after Foreign Correspondent ended on the ABC here in  Perth time, it was 10:53 when it cut to the skyline of NYC.

[Mantiss2021]

As it happened.

I was on the west coast (US), watching the early morning news as I was getting ready to drive to work..

First, there was a breaking news report of a fire at the WTC.  Then came the intitial word that the fire, which was being televised by then, was thought to have been caused by a plane crashing into the tower.

Then things got totally chaotic. 

There was a report of a plane being hijacked, unconfirmed at first. Then, as I remember, a report of a fire at the Pentagon. And finally....


As the reporter was talking,, with the camera on the burning tower, the second plane came into frame. I had just enough time to think "That's odd.. there shouldn't be a plane flying that close to that building, especially with the building on fire..", 

When the second tower was hit, live, as I watched.


I knew, in that second, that this was an attack. My first thought was some kind of cyber attack, that the aircraft guidance systems had been hacked. But then word came out about multiple hijackings, and I realized when they said that a plane had hit the Pentagon as well, that it was a different kind of attack.

And that I was about to drive into a potential target.

You see, I was working for a State government agency at the time, and our office complex was large, isolated, very well defined, and less than 2 miles from a commercial cargo airport.