AIBU to judge passengers complaining about grounded flights on 9/11?

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I’m watching an old Airline UK episode and it’s from 9/11. The way people were behaving at not being able to get on their flights blows my mind. I keep trying to think well they hadn’t processed 9/11 the way we have now, but realistically they’d all seen screens of the news and watched 2 planes smash into the towers and the towers collapse full of people.

Surely you’d have enough understanding of the need to ground flights and change security measures even then?

I know it was 25 years ago but AIBU to hope those people demanding/shouting at the staff/the entitlement that they need to get to Benidorm that day because ‘we’re not in America’ were ashamed when they seen themselves on the telly and how they acted during the most horrific terrorist attack any of us have ever lived during?

There are always a few people who behave disgustingly. Then as now there are those who act entitled and appear to have no compassion.

I was in my 20s then and fully understood the scale of what was happening as I was watching. No hindsight needed. Just don’t be a cunt.

I agree.

I was at my DC’s primary school that afternoon helping Year 2 with reading.

I had my phone with me and got a text from my BIL asking if I’d heard what had happened - this must have been at about 2.30pm. My then DH was from NY and I had lived in the US hence the text.

By the time I finished and was outside at the school gates at 3.10 most people seemed to know something had happened, even if the details were confused.

I got home in time to see the second tower collapse on TV.

What a day. My exH’s cousin was a fireman who died there that day. His best friend was in a nearby building and luckily safe.

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edited to add quote

Texts were definitely not rare in 2001. You not receiving any texts about 9/11 isn’t indicative of everyone. Perhaps you had less contacts.

But you didn’t say that though?
You said, Quote “People didn’t have mobile phones back then.” Un quote.
You didn’t mention any thing about smart phones, and yes I realise not ‘everybody’ had a mobile phone.

To be fair to @Thismoment it was me that said that. And I did then explain what I meant to say was "internet connected" mobile phones. Yes I could get a text and I could play snakes, but I couldn't get the news in real time just by pressing my screen.

I didn't know about anything till many hours later - and I had been serving customers in a busy shop all day.

I had loads of friends at that time, but from recollection texts cost 10p each and we were all uni students working in summer jobs or travelling so we definitely didnt spam each other with texts all the time.

Ok, but that doesn’t mean texts were rare.

Lol nope, texting wasn’t rare in 2001, it was just more expensive and less constant than it is now. I was 11 in '01 and had a phone, and plenty of adults had them years before that. People absolutely texted. The fact that you weren’t firing off 300 messages a day because each one cost 10p doesn’t somehow mean texting was unusual.

My parents did not hear about it until later.

My dad went out for something, possibly to get something from the car and a neighbour asked if he had heard about the attacks. She told him planes had hit the twin towers and the pentagon.

Dad came in and told mum who said, "Don't be ridiculous, the pentagon is miles away from New York".

I think that was when they put the TV or radio on.

I had a mobile phone but they didn't at the time and I don't know if I knew about texting to a landline.