SEPTEMBER 11th 2001

I was at work at the University Engineering Labs in Cambridge, my son Neil phoned me from London where he was working and said a plane had hit the tower. I looked at the BBC web site.
While we were talking the second plane went in and it was then clear it was not an accident
Neil had been in the Towers earlier that year and was actually due to fly out to New York in 8 days to work.
He liked New York so much he had asked his company if he could go out for 6 months to work in their New York Office, they had said no but he could go for 2 years!
He did in fact go out as scheduled on one of the first flights after the tragedy 8 days later.

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