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5 years ago on September 11, I was on an airplane on my way to the UK - few hours into the flight we were redirected to Chicago - nothing was said to us as passengers, however I was sitting in the back and overhearing the stewardesses talking with horror on their faces I got pretty frightened so I asked one what was going on and she told me that the flight is being cancelled and landing because of a crashed plane in NY.. she didnt know more than that at the time and only one tower had been hit at that time.
When we landed it was chaos - every single board at the airport showed every flight as "cancelled" - and nothing was being told to the passengers at that time... they couldnt tell us when we would be leaving so I sat at the airport for hours ... then I finally decided I need to find either a car, bus or some other transport to get back t Buffalo (where I was living at the time) - not one car was available in the whole city, no buses had room, no way to get out of the city, so i went to look for a hotel (thinking I would be getting out of the city next day on a plane), the Hotels all were booked and the few that were not were charging DOUBLE for the night so I had no choice.
Ended up staying there for 3 days with NO luggage because we were not allowed to return to the airport - I finally did manage to secure a rental car but that also was a rip off because it was a one way rental.. all in all I hadnt even left USA and I had already spent about $1500 for the trip.
I never made it to UK till December - and for some strange reason I have never been afraid to fly due to terrorists.. if its my time to go there is no reason to wrorry about it.
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