Early numbers from the airlines (United and American) say 266 people were in the planes. And the crash site for flight 17 is still not yet released, but there are still rumours of Camp David as the location of a plane that was said to be “no longer a threat”, which I’ve taken to mean was taken down by an air strike
All of the talk now is about setting up temporary homes for Americans stranded here in Canada, and setting up beds in our hospitals for the victims of the New York terrorists attacks.
The sight at Pierson International Airport in Toronto is strangely calm with all of the hecticness we’ve been watching on TV. From the 401 I can see the terminals, all gates filled with aircrafts along with a wide variety of planes in a sort of parking lot at the west side of the airport. A report I heard said that a stewardess reported that her other stewardesses were...
Canada’s airports have acted as a landing zone for all of these American flights that were stuck in the air. Everyone’s in total shock, there is a 5cm layer of dust and ash coating lower Manhattan. Rough estimates give us 10,000 as a death toll for New York alone, and the Pentagon is still burning.
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