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I was living in Whitehorse in '01, My father and Grandma had come up to visit me for a few days and were suppose to be flying out that morning. I got a call from my dad that morning at something like 6:30 am and he said "I don't think we're leaving today, turn on the TV". I watched in disbelief as the towers crumbled.
Then was the call that all air traffic to the US was being grounded and rerounted to the nearist airport. And as they were trying to keep planes out of the US Whitehorse was the option for about 25 transPacific flights. I was working at the biggest hotel in Whitehorse then, and started to freak with the amount of people that would be packed into that town. So started phoning people to get then to the hotel to prep for the onslaught of stranded people. I jumped into my truck to get to work, only to fine out that the highway(alaska highway), which ran by the airport and was the only way to get into downtown whitehorse, was shut down due to a "suspected hijacked" korean jet landing. So I parked my truck and started to walk the to work which took me by the airport. I watched as a 747 landed at the small Whitehorse airport being escorted by a US f-15 and canadian f-18. Then watched as the pilot exited the jet with 4 snipers and who knows how many guns were drawn on him, all while 2 fighter jets circled overhead.
So after finally making it to work, I found out due to the "hijacked" plane only 3 jets landed in Whitehorse, so we were not overwelmed. Turned out to be a mistake on the pilots part there was some kind of glich on the low fuel warning system and it signaled as a hijacked warning instead.

That day was just sureal, I ended up spending the rest of the day glued to the TV like the rest of the world. I can not imagine what the familys of the people that were lost that day still go through.