How Many People Related To 911 Debacle Were On Their First Day on The Job?

[elehhhhna]

The Norad guy got me thinking.

American airlines started at least one new employee in their Medical/Employee Benefits section of HR on 9/11. (how convenient!)

Anybody else have evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, of brand new hires conveniently in place for the catastophe?

Yours in Tinfoil,
Elehhhna

[rzemanfl]

1. Some Arabs were having their first day as pilots. Excuse me,

but what's your point?

[DenverDem]

6. But they weren't really flying the planes

what's your point?

[rzemanfl]

14. Missed the FAA guy not knowing what to do. In light of the

52 warnings, this does seem more than a bit odd. Still don't see the connection to the airline's human resource office person. Don't buy the remote control argument, people with no sense of remorse were in control of those planes.

[DenverDem]

7. Delete

weird redundancy

[Nay]

2. One poor woman killed at the Pentagon had been hired only

that week. Her hubby said she had been so excited about her job.

[liberalnurse]

3. A former FBI or CIA agent, and terror expert

was on his first day at work as Security Chief of the World Trade Center. I great travesty, a great loss. I'm not exactly sure of his name....John O'Neill or something on that line......

I understand he was the most informed expert we had but the insiders of the Bureau were acting like idiots and ran him off.

[Individualist]

12. O'Neil resigned from the FBI

just a few weeks before starting his job as Chief of Security at the WTC on August 23, 2001. www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020114fa_FACT1

There have been a number of threads about O'Neil on DU, and PBS did a Frontline presentation about him which initially aired in 2002 and was rebroadcast in 2004.

[liberalnurse]

13. I saw the PBS Special.

It broke my heart to see how he was treated by the Bureau. He was a hero.

Thank you for the link.......I bookmarked it.

[laruemtt]

4. i remember reading of one girl

who had her first day as a temp in the wtc that day. the luck of othe damned.....

[Ilsa]

5. I think "newbies" are to be expected

here and there. It's just a random thing. There weren't any first- day-on-the-job air traffic controllers, were there?

[elare]

8. Not air traffic controllers

but wasn't Randi Rhodes talking the other day about how it was the Head of the FAA's first day on the job?

[E_Smith]

9. the FAA hijacking coordinator was on his first day.

I heard this on randi rhodes yesterday. he didn't know whether he could authorize intercept of hijacked aircraft, or at least that was his testimony.

[elare]

10. That's who I was thinking of n/t

[mattclearing]

11. Looking at your subject, I thought this was an attempted MIHOP joke. n/t