Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Whitehorse 911 Story



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/04/25/korean-air-flight-911-mystery.html

The towers of the World Trade Center pour smoke shortly after being struck by hijacked commercial airplanes in New York in this Sept. 11, 2001, photo. The towers of the World Trade Center pour smoke shortly after being struck by hijacked commercial airplanes in New York in this Sept. 11, 2001, photo. (Brad Rickerby/Reuters)

When Max Fraser started collecting footage and stories about how Sept. 11, 2001, played out in the Yukon capital of Whitehorse, he set out to make a point-of-view documentary about the terrifying spectre of 2 supposedly hijacked jumbo jets landing in — or on — Whitehorse.

It's hard to forget the images of an American Airlines jet slamming into the World Trade Center in New York City, followed by a United Airlines jet hitting the second tower minutes later. The images were beamed to television sets around the world.

What Fraser ended up with is the mysterious tale of how Korean Air Flight 085, bound for New York City, came to land at the then-Whitehorse International Airport at 11:54 a.m. that day, instead of descending at one of the many better-equipped Alaskan runways it passed on its way.

'Nowhere else in the world on 9/11 was a community under an evacuation order and nowhere else were emergency authorities told to prepare for a mass casualty incident involving a hijacked airliner.'—Max Fraser, filmmaker

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