September 11 attacks: Jon Snow remembers 9/11 - 20 years on

[@Mr_SAIYAN-6]

I am a New Yorker and thought this event only still stuck with us. I had no idea the UK felt as angry and sad as we did. Thank you.

[@disclaimer.imjokin]

But of course.. we banter each other.. but we are the same people just different accents..

[@talk2birds128]

I am from Ireland and I can remember turning on our tv to catch up on a show I missed the night before.. I remember seeing a plane explode in a tall building and I didn’t understand what happened.. as the day went on, the news on the attacks were broadcast all evening. I couldn’t believe all the people covered in dust and debris. I was 16 at the time and had to go back to school the next day and our school gave us the Friday of that week off to remember the people who lost their lives. When that Friday came, I felt a deep sadness even though I didn’t know anyone.. there was this terrible sadness in the air even though it happened so far away from us. I will always remember it as the most shocking event I’ve ever witnessed on the news. RIP to all those brave FDNY souls who climbed up every step of stairs to save those who were in desperate need of help. Their courage was truly remarkable and will never be forgotten, and to all those poor souls who lost their lives that day. x

[@prismaticmarcus]

this was a global event. i was watching The West Wing on a Tuesday night when the channel crossed to live coverage. i watched all night and WTC7 collapsed in the morning as i left to go to work in the tallest building in Sydney. the world changed that day.

[@graphiteandglitter]

It has stuck with millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq

[@originalmings1991]

I’m Jamaican, was about 10 years old and it stuck with me. I remember clearly where I was on that day. I think it stuck with many all across the world. One of the worst tragedies to ever happen

[@sonic-factory]

I remember watching Jon Snow presenting the evening news that evening. There had been so many theories that day, but he and Channel 4 news got it right. It was an utterly tragic day, but they presented the facts so brilliantly without kneejerk rage or emotion. I gained a lot of respect for Channel 4 News that continues to this day.

[@wildfoxcat]

Totally agree. If I could only watch one hour of news per day I'd go for 7pm Channel 4. Sadly I watch rather more than 1 hour!

[@JenMaxon]

Yes, I watched C4 news at that time. A good serious news programme then. Horrific day and Jon Snow treated it with the gravitas it needed.

[@joannedonahue3174]

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[@Toirneachta]

Jon Snow is without any doubt, the greatest TV journalist ever. He is so empathetic, so genuine, and so engaging.

[@wildfoxcat]

Well said. Very sad to hear that he is retiring from Channel 4 News. They have a great team, but it won't be the same without him.

[@michaeloconnor9809]

You mean John Pilger.

[@IsntTheInternetGreat]

Too bad he had to kill Daenerys.

[@tonyryan1574]

Really 😂

[@h.o.m789]

Do you really think that 19 afghanis with their knives can defeat the word strong defense in the world and kidnap 4 aircraft bowing 737 and crush World trade center all this happened by taking the orders and plans from a man who’s lived in the cave in Afghanistan for all his lives ????really do you think believe it????

[@x316RiotMakerx]

There is a 911 call recording of a man trapped above where the plane hit. You can hear him screaming as the building begins to collapse, the call cuts off a few seconds later. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Kevin Cosgrove I believe is the man’s name.

[@talk2birds128]

Yes, I heard it. I was shocked by how much I could feel his terror. It is very heart breaking. He sounded just like how I would feel in a situation like that, like he was so real. So sad but hopefully he didn’t suffer for very long. RIP Kevin Cosgrove. 🕊️

[@deniseeulert2503]

I knew a man who talked to his brother before that guy was taken o ut in the fall of the first tower.

[@Sushi2735]

We in the United States, are so grateful for the unfailing loyalty of our cousins in the UK. We are indeed blessed with a Special Relationship. Thank you! It has been 22 yrs. And every year on the anniversary of this night, I rewatch the documentaries and cry all over again. I never want to ever forget those people we lost or their wonderful families. They must know we have not forgotten them or their lost loved ones. I do this to respect the lost and their families. And all the people who suffered through the clean up and now are suffering the devastating health effects from their sacrifices. All of us were changed that horrific morning. I am humbled by the sacrifices of that day.

[@pattycookie2011]

The loyalty only exists because of all the bullying you guys exert! Wake up, champ!

[@1roman1738]

@@pattycookie2011 leave it out man, we are talking about a tragedy here and there is no need to bring petty squabbles into the discussion

[@Obetv01]

Everyone knows precisely what they were doing on that day. So surreal. From that moment onwards, the world would never be the same again.

[@lydialacey]

i was in second grade and the teachers told us we had a bee infestation and we got on the bus and the older kids told us what happened...

[@ScrappyKitty15]

I was 16. I was getting ready for school and was talking to my dad in the kitchen as I was getting some coffee, when my mom ran out of their bedroom and yelled to us “a plane has flown into the World Trade Center turn on the tv!” My dad and I were dumbfounded, it all happened so fast. We turned on the tv and I can’t remember if the south tower had been hit or not, but the next thing I can remember is that my dad and I were in the car on the way to my school to drop me off when we heard about each tower falling on the radio. I so wanted to stay home that day but my parents wouldn’t let me. I don’t know why, but they probably thought it was best for me to go to school and not stay home and watch the news. When I got there I had to walk to class and I was like a zombie, so was everyone else. The campus was quiet and everyone had this dazed look on their faces. My English class teacher still had class like nothing had happened. No teachers in any of my classes talked about it that day, we all just had to push on. When the school day was over and I had walked out to the front of the school office to be picked up there was this huge pile of news papers just dropped there, up to my hips in height (I’m 5’1), and it was just weird & amazing to see. In the coming weeks that turned out to be a daily occurrence as the local news paper was going around doing that to keep students and teachers informed, which looking back was thoughtful and incredible because the news papers were for free for us. I’ll never forget that day. Never, nor where I was. It is etched into my memory, it always gets to me each year. I’ll never forget it, nor those who lost there lives during and after, and who are still losing their lives from the health effects of the dust cloud that hung around ground zero. They are the last victims of this tragedy personally touched by it all.

[@jamiebishop504]

I think every single person who existed that day will never forget where they were and who they were watching this horrific event with. I was 9 years old at middle school when this happened and I’ll never forget seeing my teachers all 3 of them crying their eyes out and the rest of us kids sat there confused and upset seeing the devastation that was caused that day! The events that day have been ingrained into my mind and anyone who witnessed this that day I’m sure will say the same thing. The world as a whole has never been the same since September 11th 2001. RIP to all those who perished that day! 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@paulparker8298]

Will never forget that it was an inside job!

[@hillmidget1326]

I was 7, I'm irish and I didn't understand to much, but I have. Vivd memory of coming into the living room and my whole family standing around the TV with a look of thier face of pure horror, I left and went out to play. But as iv grown iv looked into it more understanding more and began to understand how horrific it was, its heart breaking.

[@hanzo9941]

The world changed for the worst

[@BL1TZEN]

Jon's account about when he was personally invited over to Ground Zero a couple of months later was so sobering to see and hear.

[@kellyanneramirez8220]

So much respect for this man. Listen, learn and be party to development.

[@antonypelling9194]

Yep, I felt like that once. Now I know better . 67 years ago one of Americas most respected journalists stated , There is no such thing as responsible journalism anymore. Only servile reporters whos first loyalty is to the company that pay them, and they in turn manipulted by vested interest, Gov. & inteligence servics.

[@tamarcanady5333]

"It's as if we've learned nothing." well said.

[@ChrisRowe]

Jon Snow is the best news presenter we've ever had. I will miss him dearly when he leaves

[@jasondevon481]

Jon Snow is scared of wh1te people, as seen in pro Brexit demonstrations a few years back. He is a biased reporter.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

he radiates empathy

[@EndoCanna]

Sir Trevor McDonald?

[@ChrisRowe]

@@EndoCanna nah, I'll take Snow over McDonald any day of the week.

[@sonic-factory]

Agreed. A legend of the industry, probably the only TV news presenter I've ever trusted.

[@gtd65]

I'm British but was working in Pennsylvania on that day. I had Yahoo messenger running and was sent a message, almost as soon as it occurred. My American colleagues suggested that somebody was pulling my leg. When I updated them that another plane has crashed into the other tower they said the same thing. 20 minutes later, the whole office, almost erupted in rage. I flew from Philadelphia airport on the 16th, to Orlando and the airport was absolutely deserted. The nation was absolutely terrified.

[@daveregan3535]

You know everything, Jon Snow.

[@SolDeSaBelle]

Fuuuucking.... *_FINALLY,_* someone made that joke! ...the silence was so heavy - it was driving me mad...!

[@rocker76m88]

​@@SolDeSaBelleSame!

[@park4515]

Perfect!

[@ChrisHawkswell]

Jon is such a national treasure in-line with David Attenborough

[@DdotRay86]

Love Jon Snow but absolutely nobody is on par with Sir David!

[@thesupportingcast6972]

I was 17 on this day. I wanted to watch this to see how our British counterparts were reacting to this. I am from Pennsylvania. I lived 20 miles from where the plane went down in Somerset, Pennsylvania. I didn't go to school again until a week later. I remember the lines wrapped around our school of parents rushing to the school to pull their kids out and take them home.

[@purplezen4261]

9/11/2021....20 yrs later. My son was 10 months old on that dreadful day. Now he is in The Navy and is part of a ceremony today on the USS Somerset. His ship has a beam from the twin towers that is now used as a structure of the ship. And USS Somerset is a ship that is a tribute to flight 93. You were 17 - now you are 37? God bless you ! 🇺🇲⚓🇺🇲

[@matthewkent8796]

The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was heading for the white house.

[@eowyneadig7879]

I was 17 too, turned 18 3mos later in December. We were homeschooled so started college a bit early. I heard about it at college and then got in my car and heard it reported on every single radio station. I didn’t realize how huge and important the buildings were until I got him.

[@mcfcguvnors]

Does annoy me that hardly anyone knows that Al Hamze RANG SLY NEWS ON SEPT 12TH !!! begging then to stop using his photo - his passport had been stolen by some yank bird he met in a bar ( he was a pilot) he was in Turkey waiting on the new passport EIGHT OF THE MEN IN THEM PICS WERE NEVER EVEN THERE 3 were murdered by the CIA the other 5 vanished & they have probably also been taken out by now - ask sly news for the 2001 sept phone records = they are sealed by the MOD on the 100 years secrecy act ,the ONLY other instance i can find like this is Kenny Noye ( Brinx matt gold bullion ) whos land is on top of secret MOD WW2 storage tunnels & cant be searched by Police until 2045 = 100 years after WW2 so there COULD be gold down there unless the MOD got to it 1st

[@rebeccaward4563]

I was an 11 year old girl from the UK crying and touching the TV when this happened. I will never forget this and remember every year just like the wars and people who served our country. It was devastating. My 75 tear old Grandma travelled and visited ground zero. I don't think anyone will get over this. 🇺🇸

[@CAREorDIE]

i was 11 too. also from the uk. just thinking how can it be real? and after watching all channels reporting it... i just knew something was going on in the world and i had to figure it out. glad to say that i have... but it just seems no one else is interested these days... (people arent ready to see the bigger picture) OWELL

[@spkn4kk475]

i live in Virginia - in the same house i was in when i watched it on tv... i don't personally know a single person who lost their life in this tragedy, but I've spent every September 11 for the last 22 years watching countless specials with a box of tissues. never forget 💔

[@hnsnrachel1]

Those of us old enough remember the day clearly will never forget it, and I think even more so for those of us who were preteens/teens at the time and for whom it was the first big lesson in how awful the world can be.

[@crazydrummer181]

@@hnsnrachel1that was a rough year for ten year old me. I watched Dale Earnhardt die on live television, my grandmother died in a house fire and of course 9/11.

[@wonderwoman5528]

I saw Jon in m&s, he looked like he was willing to talk to anyone, and had such a nice aura about him

[@dynaztycrashdiet]

I agree with him where he says the world still isn't at peace. Since 9/11 everything has gone downhill & the world has changed for the worse.

[@bmused55]

I was at work when this all started happening. Being in the UK, it was mid afternoon for us. It had been a lovely day. There was a commotion on the floor. I ignored it and finished a call I was on. Then a colleague came rushing up next to me and began furiously tuning the little TV from a video editing test rig into the local BBC broadcast. He managed it and we watched in horror as the first tower was spewing out smoke. Then we saw the second one hit live. Everyone turned to me, as the resident AvGeek, and all I could tell them was "That was no Cessna and no accident". Absolutely horrific day I will never forget.

[@samil5601]

Pretty much the same for me. A colleague came telling me that a plane had hit WTC. I didn't react much as, I seem to recall, there had been an incident where a small plane hac hit a skyscraper. I assumed this to be the same. Soon after we got a video clip of the plane hitting and saw it was a passenger jet. Then the second plane hit before we got out heads around the first one.... We called it a day and went to the pub where everyone was sat in silence watching the news. Will never forget that day.

[@fusionsuper]

Wow! Talk about the emotion of doing a live breaking news broadcast halfway through the afternoon on that fateful day. Jon really felt the emotion of the events on that day. How he thought quickly on his feet and to deliver the afternoon bulletin and the extended evening programme is literally just something else. You have to give it to him for how he carried this out in a distinctive and calm attire. This was and still is high-quality journalism on a world class scale on such a very difficult and very sad day, two decades on.

[@beccas.7762]

He is so eloquent.

[@mickeylana]

“I felt with the news, in the news.” And that’s why he’s so beloved. The way he delivered it had the feeling and urgency we all felt!

[@liveuser8527]

He hates white people

[@Mike20216]

Jon is always worth listening too, hes a national treasure.

[@tonyryan1574]

Most Brits don't watch channel 4 news mate.

[@fredarcher7264]

@@tonyryan1574 more the pity

[@arunmathew2030]

@@tonyryan1574 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp-cZJ2HbdeqnNk

[@antonypelling9194]

A national disgrace on this subject !

[@mcfcguvnors]

They tend to watch sly news @@tonyryan1574 whos phone records for 2001 sept are locked away under the 100 years secrecy act . Al Hamze called them on sept 12th THE DAY AFTER begging them to stop using his pic given this was either A proof of life after death or B the man was alive he also asked them to stop harrassing his mum as he was unable to call her cos her phone was engaged constantly . EIGHT of the accused were NEVER THERE ( Proven ) 3 were taken out by the CIA 4 of the others vanished one is alive & well now in Pakistan as of 2023 ( as the yanks want him toasted ) Al Hamze ive not heard of or seen since 2003 when he vanished ,probably CIA got him too

[@richardthomas74]

I was 14 on 9/11. In the UK, this all happened whilst we were in our last school lessons of the day, I believe, completely oblivious. I guess the teachers wouldn't have known either. Some may have done, as the first plane may have hit just before the lesson started. If so, props to them for then going into a classroom of kids and continuing to teach them like it was just another day. I remember finding out when I got home at about 4.15pm GMT. My mum was glued to the TV, the news was on, and my 14 year old mind was trying to piece together what was going on - I remember the images on the TV clearly. Although I understood it was something very serious and unlike anything that I had seen in my lifetime, I think because I was still young and living in the UK, it all felt very abstract to me. Me and my sister went to our local youth club that evening, and although we went every week, I remember feeling that there was an extra urgency for us to go, as I could tell our mum was struggling to un-glue herself from the TV which would be on the rest of the night, understandably. Although abstract, I did get a growing sense of how serious it was as the night went on, and even if I didn't fully understand the horror of what had just happened, I was aware by this point that for the adults, even in the UK, it was weighing heavy on their minds. I remember looking at the adults who ran the youth club, aware that they probably had all sorts of worrying thoughts racing through their mind, and being amazed at how they'd switched off the TV and continued to run the youth club for the evening as normal, for the sake of getting us kids out of the house and in an effort to make it as normal an evening as possible. I'm glad that was how happened for me, as I don't think I was mature enough to have handled a night at home in front of the TV watching it all unfold, over and over again. 14 is a funny age in that sense. On the one hand, you understand quite a lot about the world, you're a teenager, but on the other, you are still a child. If I had been just a few years older, I think 9/11 would have had a much bigger impact at the time for me. So, every year since, I have learnt more and more about the events that unfolded that day, both through growing older and maturing, and also through active research in an effort to understand all of it. And although I didn't fully understand it when it happened in 2001, that day, when I replay it in my head, has still always been remembered by me as being one where something very tragic happened and the world was suddenly flipped upside down.

[@jakubwidlarz]

I was only 3 back then. Just before 3:00 pm CET my Mum first found out from a newsflash on RMF FM whilst she was on a bus coming back from the high school where she taught in Wadowice, Poland to our then house in Brzezinka near Andrychów. Later that night I watched the footage of the second plane hitting the tower and I'll never forget the scream that I let out at that moment. Even though the 21st century was less than two years old, this event set the tone for the rest of it. Much of even the domestic conflicts and abnormalities that have happened in the Western world in the past 20 years are the direct consequence of 9/11.

[@bhughes1986]

I was also 14 and remember exactly where I was when I heard about 9/11. I was walking home from school and heard a couple of people in a neighbouring street chatting about it over their garden fence. I got home and put the TV on and saw the horror for myself. I can remember all of us as a family sitting simply glued to the news. Sept 11th is my fathers birthday and we went out for a meal, a family tradition. I ended up joining the Armed Forces and have been to Afghanistan twice. It's a beautiful country. A lot of what you said echoes with me.

[@imnottellingyoumyname3050]

I was also 14. I remember we had a games lesson. Right before we started the teachers asked if any of us had family in new York because something had happened, but they weren't sure what. I got home. Mom was off work. She was watching the telly and I saw planes flying into buildings. I couldn't understand what on earth was going on.

[@r_shan2506]

I was 11 and got home to see the second tower fall. I worked out I was in French class when this was all happening

[@kelzunique]

I was 14, and in a business studies lesson, when our teacher was called out of the room for a few mins. When he came back in it was obvious that something was wrong but as kids we didnt think much of it. The lesson ended and walking home from school lots of people were sitting in their cars listen to news, but again I was oblivious until I walked through my front door. Sat watching with my mum in utter shock. I didnt even know what the world trade center was until that day.

[@thenameless7650]

Not only did he save the Seven Kingdoms, but he's also humble? What a great man!

[@h.o.m789]

Do you really think that 19 afghanis with their knives can defeat the word strong defense in the world and kidnap 4 aircraft bowing 737 and crush World trade center all this happened by taking the orders and plans from a man who’s lived in the cave in Afghanistan for all his lives ????really do you think believe it????

[@letmerephrasethat5208]

@@h.o.m789 No Afghan national was ever reported part of the 911 hijacker suicide squad. No 737 was ever alleged part of the 4 hijacked planes, outside of early speculation from people who still had no clue. Bin Laden spent his youth up until and including university years in Saudi Arabia, and spent most of his anti-Soviet mujahedin supporting years in Pakistan including Peshawar and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He returned to Saudi after the Soviet retreat and then agreed to an invitation by the junta to set up an Islamist organization for them in Sudan, while living there. For most of his life, Osama had no personal need for caves, and anecdotally when he visited Sweden, he brought his own Rolls Royce, allegedly flown in on a private plane. And he didn't order or even plan 911, he funded the movement and provided recruitment resources. Nor did the attack defeat the military defense, but rationally circumvented it through hostile takeover of soft targets in civil society. Box cutters were legally allowed at the time, but it turns out they still do serious damage to unarmed civilians who are threatened with being blown out of the sky if they resist. So there's not much need to believe in much of what you throw out there, to take the commission findings to heart. And the parts you're factually right about are not that hard to believe, especially not harder than the alternative narratives.

[@pikslap1185]

@@h.o.m789 Umm Afghanistan doesn't even exist in Game of Thrones dude, like what are you even talking about?

[@mkfd4571]

@@pikslap1185Dude, it’s a joke… 😂

[@bugmanuk]

Will never, ever forget this day. My first day in college, 16. I used to walk around with a Sony pocket radio in my ear at most times of the day and Melvyn Bragg was interrupted by this tremendous, harrowing event. I stood up, almost zombiefied, bunked out the lecture theatre and got back home to find my father in the living room glued to a television like I'd never seen him before. Transfixed we both were as the footage unfolded and compiled by lunch time and it's sent chills down my spine upon recounting that day ever since. I'm no conspiracy nut but my Dad and I did catch each other's gaze and simultaneously said, silently, there is far more to this than we're going to be told, at least for today. I felt an anger connected with politics for the very first time in my life but ultimately, grave sadness for everyone killed there in New York. No more words. RIP to all the poor souls.

[@griddy_shorts638]

Who else is here 9/11 2021? 20 years later.

[@BeeEatingOrchid]

Me

[@simonacland9028]

I remember watching a documentary called "The Falling Man" in 2006 and being in years throughout most of it. My mum had to reassure me that those people that were falling would've passed out but I find that hard to believe possible in just 10 seconds. Unless I'm simply wrong... Such a horrible day. RIP.

[@nothingposted9056]

You are right, they didn't pass out.

[@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520]

If people passed out falling, it would happen frequently during skydiving. They died on impact, it would of been quick.

[@moaningpheromones]

@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 yes it would have been quick, yes it would have.

[@jamesbomd3503]

THE REASON WHY THEY JUMPED IS BECAUSE THE HEAT WAS SO INTENSE AND THE SMOKE WAS SUFFOCATION THEM, THEY WERE BEING SET ON FIRE, YOU CAN SEE THIS WITH THE VIPER TRAIL AS THEY FALL

[@mrjudelicious]

​@@jamesbomd3503Why are you yelling??

[@pinkcityacnl]

A true journalist. We can see how painful it is to describe all these moments. A very good testimony, with a lot of emotions. I love how this man think: even if he wants to cry, he says that he absolutely wants to do his duty, it's admirable

[@fredarcher7264]

Jon Snow , a deeply compassionate man and journalist.

[@smontone]

Incomprehensible grief, it’s so true. As we watched that day there was no way to fathom the full extent of the tragedy unfolding.

[@loi22]

Very sobering interview. Jon Snow is exquisite as always, and great, cohesive and brilliant questioning from the interviewer.

[@djarguijo833]

The north remembers Jon snow ❄️

[@anniebieber19]

Watching Mr. Snows body language, it is apparent how deeply he was touched by this event as he wraps his arms around himself in a protective and self soothing gesture at certain clips and memories. I found myself doing the same, just as I can not help myself from saying, "Oh dear God, no!!" as the Towers each fell. There is a place in my heart that will never heal, the pain is as visceral 23 years later as it was on that day. I hope to never see an event like this again in my or my future generations' lifetimes.

[@FluffyNicholas]

What a delightful journalist. His humanity is palpable.

[@ZLSdrums]

Jon came to my work a few weeks ago, he was extremely polite and we had a lovely chat

[@richardchartier7992]

If you lost someone you love in these attacks it's a loss for life. I lost a gift of my intelligence and peace of mind early in life. I haven't lost anyone in this attack, but i realize I still have a lot because there's always more to lose.

[@lisaa8795]

This was a horrific situation where the reality was so much worse than what the imagination could conjure up. The footage is still shocking 20 years later, in spite of annual repeated viewings. 14:54 It did remind me of old WWII footage of the destruction of English and German cities. Utter devastation.

[@purplezen4261]

Jon is correct...after 20 yrs " we are not at peace". 😢🇺🇲

[@MrGwaldo]

Gotta keep the war machine running.

[@Benaam007-z5s]

@@MrGwaldo exactly

[@drubber007]

And you have no idea why. Just like every other comment on this video. That is more terrifying.

[@spnhm34]

Jon Snow reacted with sincerity, grief and realism. I don’t know many broadcasters who live up to those high standards. One possible correction, I think at least half of New Yorkers had cell phones at that point. You can look it up, but also in most videos of the time you can see people on their phone. First hand accounts of people evacuating WTC also describe most people on their phone

[@hnsnrachel1]

Loads had cellphones but in the immediate aftermath in Manhattan, they became fairly useless, at least once the towers fell. So many transmitters were on those buildings that it was impossible for people to make calls.

[@dvsdawl]

They had phones but not video capability or internet connection at that time and if they did, the networks were all overloaded or destroyed

[@davidmurphy563]

6:20 _"And wondering, do you lose conscientiousness from the forces"_ There's a cold scientific answer to this question of human horror. Assuming you don't hit the building on the way down there are no forces aside from the air (which doesn't amount to all that much), otherwise it's identical to being in the ISS. It would be an odd feeling, you'll feel your insides floating but you absolutely will not pass out from forces during the fall because you're effectively at rest. That's unintuitive, you think you're at rest now sat on your chair but you have to realise that your chair is currently accelerating you upwards - so right now you're feeling a significant force (this force is electromagnetic in nature, the atoms in the chair). Falling is the absence of force, so you're weightless (aside from the air resistance). There would be a change in blood flow, normally it resists the upward acceleration of being on the ground so without acceleration it would be spread more evenly but it's nothing that would make you lose consciousness.

[@Martial-Mat]

As a former high board diver, I concur.

[@thiagoferoce6658]

wouldn't you pass out from shock? or is that just wishfull thinking...

[@letmerephrasethat5208]

​@@thiagoferoce6658 mainly wishful thinking, yes. There may have been exceptions, but fainting is not generally an evolutionary favored response to sudden death anxiety. One first responder recounts how he got greeted to the scene by a person coming down under "vocal protest" to use my sugarcoating, right in front of him. The details are not for everybody, but I try to peek a little behind the standard media discretion, since it must be lonely for those who experienced these things first hand. And I wouldn't want everybody to look away if it happened to somebody I loved.

[@davidmurphy563]

@andrew kruth Indeed. Galileo, Newton and Einstein to name but three.

[@kkandola9072]

What you are saying is technically correct but I don't think that connects with peoples idea that they passed out before impact. I think the belief comes from the wishful misconception that you'd be falling so fast that there would be an area of low pressure around you thatd keep your body from being able to inhale.

[@nigelrequiem]

I remember watching Channel 4 News that night,How Jon Snow kept it together is beyond me xx

[@fusionsuper]

I'm literally left in tears after listening to this. This was such a wonderful moving interview carried out as well. 😢

[@lisdon324]

my first week at secondary school, i will never forget watching the news over and over and over on that tuesday

[@marywood8794]

The interviewer implies that we didn't have cell phones. We didn't have smart phones, but we did have cell phones. In fact, that was a serious issue when the cell phones wouldn't work in NYC. The situation laid bare the communication issues for first responders, etc.

[@jamesdrynan]

Here it is 2022 and my first look at how journalists handled the harrowing assault on 9/11. Mr. Snow handled himself with equanimity given the breadth of the horrific situation. My wife and I were in Quebec and sat transfixed watching the unfolding catastrophe. No other surprise attack, other than Pearl Harbour, had happened on the US.

[@mark1968]

Such eloquence and poise.

[@adrianwilkinson1031]

Excellent interview

[@kirasussane1556]

I remember that day as clearly as it had happen yesterday. I was 9 years old and getting ready to go to school when i saw on the news the second plane hitting the south tower . (Didn't knew it was the second airplane ate that time). It was so shocking that my mom keep changing the channels thinking maybe it wasn't true ,we just couldn't believe it .I remember for a moment I thought it was a movie ,all sort of thoughts,ideas and emotions went through my head in those first few minutes. Two decades later and the world is still suffering and living with the consequences of the events that happened that day and the decisions that were took in the months after. P .S I'm not an American i grew up and live in Mexico near the border but I'm sure everyone in the world can remember where and what they were doing that day.

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

The fact there arent any Game of Thrones jokes in here just goes to show the prestige and respect this man has.

[@mkfd4571]

I found one 😂

[@vancouverviking4652]

🤡

[@CHRISANDREOU4199]

Yeah so long as there's not to many indigenous brits around

[@BAMP1319]

The thing is, that Jon snow does know 😌

[@matthewkent8796]

He cycled from soho to channel 4 tv centre in 7 minutes he must be super human.

[@stephenc6648]

Not Channel 4 HQ. ITN makes Channel 4 News.

[@Haberdashery22]

Here in south-east England, 3.15pm., we, school staff, took our classes out to the waiting parents. Primary school, so little ones up to age 11. So many parents that day. All so oddly serious! And gradually in whisper above the children's heads they told us what they'd seen on the TV or heard on the car radio. Some were tearful. The shock of it. Later I drove home and right outside my house in the road was a dead hedgehog. Not a mark on it. I couldn't leave it there so I took it through to my garden, dug a hole and buried it, tearfully. It seemed to represent the events somehow. I hope you don't find this disrespectful, it isn't meant to be.

[@jessicablessing1527]

I was 16, living in Georgia in the US. I was in my early morning class and the teacher had the tv on CNN when the 1st tower was attacked. Watched live coverage as the second plane hit the south tower. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. The whole day all the classes had the tvs on and we just watched and didn't do any school work. When I got home to my dad, who was in desert storm in the early 90's...he already had a good idea who was responsible.

[@walterzamalis4846]

Congratulations to Jon as well for his new child, born March 2021! Never too old, ay?

[@eowyneadig7879]

Thank you for this! I just looked up an article about this.

[@frkzd]

"The North remembers..." - Ser Jon Snow - King of the North

[@seren9613]

I am Australian but to me Jon Snow is the face of British news Media. I had pay TV and had him reporting on our British channel. His reporting was succinct, precise and even though he didn't break down crying you could feel the emotion permeating from him. He's brilliant and a credit to investigative journalism. He's a lovely man 🎥🎤 🖤

[@matthewkent8796]

The BBC is the face of the British news Media, his channel 4 news.

[@seren9613]

@@matthewkent8796 The BBC IS the channel I associate with the UK. But the face I saw on my news was Jon Snow. You can't change my memories with a statement it is what it is.

[@matthewkent8796]

@@seren9613 BBC is a news channel aswell.

[@seren9613]

@@matthewkent8796 You are just being argumentative now. Of course I know that. I made a comment about a gentleman that delivered some tragic news and some absolutely amazing news. Of course it's going to stick out in my mind. Are you trying to make me feel some sort of way? I'm sorry you feel the need to do whatever it is your doing. I'm baffled to be honest.

[@stevenmcguinness4751]

Ironically C4 News is so small, as is all broadcast TV now, that the vast majority of British People wouldn’t have a clue who he is.

[@matthewkent5212]

He rode his bike from Soho to channel 4 tv centre in 7 minutes he must be super human.

[@TrancetasticWilza]

I went there in 2006 and I was overwhelmed and literally couldn't speak! 😢

[@tiredgardener]

I forgot that the ground was still smoking 2 months after the attack. Goes to show how hot the impact was, and puts to rest the insulting conspiracy theories that surround this tragic event.

[@perspellman]

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[@Ozgipsy]

The moment I saw the second plane hit I remember thinking “someone’s going to get a black eye for this”

[@Embracing01]

I don't believe that was a real plane. The sky was clear and at that height we should've seen markings, the livery colour and windows, but it was very dark in colour. Also, planes cannot go through a steel building like that and explode in a fireball, much of the plane on impact would break up and fall to the ground, but we don't see that happen.

[@game1414]

@@Embracing01 people on the ground saw it. They saw the windows. One of the only 4 survivors from the above floors was looking straight at it as it approached the building. He saw the colours and logos on the plane.

[@Embracing01]

@@game1414 They saw what looked like a plane. There is no evidence showing any logos, airline markings and colours identifying it as the planes that were supposed to have hit, instead the videos show a dark plane against a blue sky.

[@Borninthe80s.]

@@Embracing01 no need for ur conspiracy theories

[@Embracing01]

@@Borninthe80s. They're not conspiracy theories. Do you really believe a plane can fly straight into a steel building like that and just "melt" into it with no wings and so on falling to the ground?. And anyone who says there was wreckage found near the site are just believing what the authorities and media are telling them, evidence like that can be planted there. Ask any aviation expert whether an airliner can travel at 580mph at that height or not and they will tell you it cannot only at an higher altitude.

[@SharonWoods-i8w]

😢I will never forget this day in NYC for the rest of my days RIP for all that have gone from Australia

[@COYD-s4f]

Imagine thinking that was the right shirt to wear in an interview about 9/11

[@redditanonymous-p9w]

I remember it quite well. I was at work, early afternoon and one of my colleagues got a call from his wife saying what had happened. We tried to search online about it but the internet was unresponsive. Those poor people. Rest in peace.

[@brendakipkemoi2738]

I was watching Channel 4 from my university dorm in London with fellow students. We just couldnt fathom WTH was happening. The world changed that day.

[@DovesDoCry]

I live in the states now but was born and raised in England. I will never forget how devastated and angry everyone around me was when it happened. I was only a child but people running into the streets to console one another and pray for America will forever stay with me. I hope the uk and the us always have such a meaningful bond and we fight together in all things

[@Noob___Noob]

You know something. Jon Snow.

[@dirkdiggler8260]

What does that mean?

[@MarcoGosatti43]

What does he know?

[@smadaf]

"nasal gaze"? Twice? "People didn't have mobile phones"? This is the quality of Channel 4 News now?

[@laurenanderson7330]

Lots of people didn’t have mobile phones in 2001.

[@smadaf]

@@laurenanderson7330, including me. But that's not the point, is it?

[@laurenanderson7330]

@@smadaf So he meant it generally. Also the phones weren't working

[@Aaron19987]

He meant smart phones. As he referenced taking videos, photos and social media. Obviously cell phones were a thing in 2001. No need to be pedantic over such a serious conversation.

[@smadaf]

@@Aaron19987 , in response to my comment that read "'nasal gaze'? Twice? | 'People didn't have mobile phones'? | This is the quality of Channel 4 News now?", you wrote "He meant smart phones. As he referenced taking videos, photos and social media. Obviously cell phones were a thing in 2001. No need to be pedantic over such a serious conversation." As the interviewer points out from 22:15, "there is a new generation, who weren't alive during Nine Eleven, who won't recall the horror of that day". For the sake of them and others, I'm going to focus here on accuracy, even though some call it "pedantry". People who want the truth about that day need accurate statements, and they need sources (such as this comment) that will disabuse them of the misstatements made in this video. The seriousness of the subject, far from being a reason for which there is "[n]o need to be pedantic", heightens the importance of accuracy. First, we both acknowledge the existence of cellular telephones (mobile phones, cell-phones) in 2001. It's acknowledged in this video, too: from 0:10, Jon Snow says "I was invited to a lunch in Soho; and there we were, sitting in a-a café, in one of those little streets; and suddenly my rather cranky mobile phone went off". Next, let's see whether the meaning of the quotation in my original comment, "People didn't have mobile phones", was, as you say, about smart-phones. You said that "he [mentioned] taking videos, photos and social media". I think you're talking about the bit from 5:16, in which the interviewer says "back then, there were no camera-phones, there was no social media: the news was TV". That statement is about camera-phones and social media, without specifying videos and photos; I suppose that it's what you meant. But the words "there were no camera-phones" are not the words in my comment that started this thread, which are "People didn't have mobile phones". The difference in words suggests that I meant a different statement, which may have had a different meaning. What statement did I mean? The one from 11:59, in which the interviewer says "People didn't have mobile phones. It was very difficult to get in touch with anyone in downtown Manhattan. In the days afterwards, there were all those images of photos of people being like 'Have You Seen Them?', people trawling the hospitals, because there was so much unknown." _That_ is what I was quoting, and it doesn't seem to be about a lack of smart-phones with which to record photos and videos: it seems to be about a way to make phone-calls. The most charitable interpretation that I can give that quote, in terms of its accuracy, is that he was acknowledging (A) that a smaller fraction of the population had mobile phones in 2001 than in 2021 and (B) that there was some disruption of cell-phone service in New York City on 9/11 (partly because an important antenna for cell-phones was on top of 1WTC, one of the Twin Towers). (One other reason for disruption of the phone-system on that day, not limited to cell-phones, was the number of people trying to make calls. At two minutes after eleven o'clock that morning, from Florida, I tried to call a friend in Atlanta, to tell him about the attack in case he didn't already know: the recorded message on the line for my AT&T phone-card was "All circuits are busy now. Please, try your call later. One zero six T." It still is the only time I've ever gotten an "All circuits are busy" message in my whole life.) It would have been a lot more informative for listeners who don't know the real information if he'd said something like what I just wrote, instead of "People didn't have mobile phones." It's not hard to say "Mobile phones were not as common, and some cell-service in New York was disrupted by the loss of the antenna on the World Trade Center." But what comes next? From 12:18, Jon Snow says "I think, in those days that succeeded the attack, there was absolute communications chaos in New York. I mean we're-we were lucky to be able to make any contact at all, and to get the return pictures and the rest. Individuals were struggling in any way even to use the phone-system; and a transatlantic phone-call was almost unachievable, too. Whatever happened destroyed many of the communications as well as the desperate human loss of life." That is not believable. In those days, there were millions of phone-calls to, from, and within New York City, as there are every day. In those days, I engaged in plenty of transatlantic communication that relied on phone-lines. It was not "almost unachievable": in terms of phone-service, it was back to business as usual very soon after that bad morning. To say "there was absolute communications chaos in New York" is just silly; and there are millions of records, in the form of writings, sound-recordings, and video-recordings, to prove the lack of "chaos". Because in your reply to me you mentioned "taking videos", I thought that perhaps you meant their discussion of getting a television-news camera-crew into Ground Zero. It seems that what they're talking about is reporting done on Sunday, November 11, 2001-because, from 15:24, Jon Snow in 2001 says "At dead of night on America's Remembrance Day, stilled for the first time since the rescue-work began two months ago", apparently meaning Veterans Day, which always is November 11. The interviewer introduces this trip by saying, from 12:56, "And, when it comes to Ground Zero, itself, you eventually went there, two months later. Before we look at your clip from then, firstly how did you manage to get access to Ground Zero?" Jon Snow's response, from 13:11, is "It's extraordinary. There had been no press- and no-no TV-access, at all. And I was somebody, having been a correspondent in America-we used to go back there for summer holidays and the rest, and developed friendships. And I developed friendships while I was a correspondent there, too. And one such friend was a brilliant photographer, Joel Meyerowitz; and he called me up and said 'Jon, I have been appointed by the Parks Department to photograph Ground Zero, and I think I could get you and a camera into Ground Zero.' And I said 'Joel, you-this can't be. It can't-.' 'Yes,' he said, 'I really think I can. I've got a permit to have three people in my team; and I don't need anybody, but I would love to have you.' And so I caught the next flight, with Malcolm Hicks and his sound-man; and we flew straight to Kennedy, which was back in business; and we hurtled over to Ground Zero. Joel met us just outside the perimeter-fencing that had been erected to keep people away. And there we were: we were inside." From 17:54, Jon Snow in 2001 says "For nearly two months now, these remarkable scenes have only been recorded by one man, on an old, high-definition, nineteen-forty-four view camera, which produces huge, high-quality negatives. Joel Meyerowitz will place them in the New York Museum." I don't think he would lie about this, so I wonder what details are being left out that would make his words-with those missing details-true. Here are some of the things that make me doubt the version given in this video: In those months, I accumulated a large file about what had happened. It contains thousands of items-videotapes, audiotapes, telephone-recordings, emails, analog photos, digital photos, news articles from websites, website screenshots, online chats, newspapers, magazines, and more. There are plenty of photos and videos from Ground Zero from the period after September 11 and before November 11. I don't know why Jon Snow thinks no press was there before Channel 4 got in on November 11. I don't know why he says that Joel Meyerowitz was the only one with a camera allowed in before November 11. A memorial service attended by hundreds of people, if not thousands, was held there on October 28-and shown live on television, by cameras that were there. Maybe Jon Snow means the footprints of the Twin Towers, as opposed to something a bit farther out but still called "Ground Zero". Well, George W. Bush was there, surrounded by reporters and cameras, on September 14. And a photographer for the 126th Military History Detachment, of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, was working there on October 3. Ian Jacobs made dozens of photos there on October 31. These are just a few examples of many exceptions to his statement that nobody with a camera but Joel Meyerowitz was allowed there until November 11, when Channel 4 got to be the only news people allowed in. And then there are all the cameras-still cameras, TV cameras, amateurs' camcorders-that recorded the 'inside' of Ground Zero by looking into it from outside (from down the street, from windows and roofs of nearby buildings, from helicopters). It's fine to record the changing of memories as time passes and brains age. It's another thing to let these changed memories stand as definitive statements of what really happened when reliable contrary evidence is so well known by some. Those who know have a duty to get it right for those who don't. Not to sound snooty about it, but . . . if Channel 4 won't bother, at least I will.

[@renegadeoffunk32]

I am a dual US-UK citizen and was living in Brussels at the time. I had just returned from Connecticut on Sept 9th visiting my Aunt and Uncle, having flown out of JFK, New York. I had stayed overnight at my cousins apartment on the Upper West Side. He witnessed the second crash from his roof. Now I live in Jersey City, and almost everyday I walk Liberty State Park where I get a view and marvel at Lower Manhattan. I don't think I could ever get over seeing it engulfed in flame and smoke. My girlfriend's high school friend lost her dad in the towers. We walk past the Jersey memorial that has his name on it. It hits differently when you know people who were personally affected. Seeing the lights go up every anniversary also hits differently.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

The World changed that day. But 22 years on, and the world is now even more of a dangerous place...

[@jameshill8711]

All the very best Mr Snow, your a credit to your profession.

[@antonypelling9194]

Get a life. He & his profession should be indicted as "accessories after the fact "

[@Steelninja77]

I was in Prison in Bristol. and heard it as it happened on the radio i had borrowed that day. soon as the plane hit i knew it was a terror attack and then as I was telling my cell mate a second plane hit. It was awful. Yeah there was no TVs in jail back in 2001. Pure bang up.

[@pattate9636]

Astonishingly articulate.

[@nancyblackett8777]

Hardly astonishing. A highly educated mature professional communicator.

[@purplebonnie3620]

I've been reaching out to media other than the USA, and it's very refreshing I must say. I agree with Pat Tate... Astonishingly articulate!

[@johnjuan6698]

Hail the King Of The North, Jon Snow!

[@arkarmiller70]

King of the north!

[@Starfield-Guy]

I actually cannot watch footage of this anymore, just too horrific. I am thinking of the human factor, all those people who died, the passengers on the plane, those in the buildings and hundreds of police, fire and emergency workers for absolutely nothing! 😞

[@gohan3914]

He also remembers the White Walkers and the fall of the wall

[@Azkabanprison]

I’m an American ..I remember this day vividly..I was in middle school and the principal came over the PA system and told all teachers in all classrooms to turn the tvs on for all of us student to see live what was happening.i was sitting there glued to watching the news channel and I watched as the second plane struck the tower 😢it was a bone chilling thing to see and it still gives me chills thinking and talking about this day.i felt so terrible for everyone in New York I felt terrible for the ppl on the planes and I felt bad for those ppl that was jumping from the top floor.i can remember thinking that we thought it was bricks falling but they zoomed in and it was ppl and yea it was just a horrible horrible nightmare of a day.

[@hoxoboxo]

What a cool dude, if everyone was like him, we would have a better world

[@dmayres]

There is a brilliant but devastating 6-part documentary produced by National Geographic, which i watched as part of the 20th anniversary. I was 17 when this happened, I'd just started college. My Mum later said to me that her first thought was that I could end up being drafted to go to war.

[@clairevoyant1865]

You truly never forget where you were when this happened. I was 9 in Oxford, UK. School finished and I was at my childminder's house, watching cartoons. Then my childminder flew in the room, took the remote and changed the channel. I still remember the utter confusion and horror that spread through me as I saw that second tower fall... I will never forget that. RIP. I plan to visit the 9/11 memorial and museum in nyc one day and I'm sure I will be crying my eyes out. Peace and love to everyone who suffered ❤

[@keihnungm2011]

such honest and thoughful answers to such stupid, banal questions. jon snow is a real one

[@jackiefranklin7126]

I love John Snow for his absolute honesty. No matter how he felt the need to report all that happened, his honesty reigns. John Snow, you are an absolute man of peace. I will honour your truth forever.

[@rosealexander9007]

I lived in the same state of NY at the time this happened. But NY state is huge. I was still several miles away. 355 miles away to be exact. But I was deeply emotional about the whole thing.

[@johnnyoutlaw6534]

Just the phrase "there have been a series of terrorist attacks in The Untied States." Seems so unreal to me, but it isn't. It happened and I remember it vividly.

[@glennbzt]

I worked on in a building doing flooring 3 days after 9/11.. in a bldg ..few streets from the carnage..cud smell the air …acrid fuel death …weird smell…it made me sad and angry …still remember ..military on streets …checking my tool box..it was surreal…worked in towers 1 and 2 many times

[@gr0wler147]

Jon could not have said it better.

[@spacexcrazy9348]

He knows nothing

[@Martial-Mat]

"No-one has the experience of dealing with death and destruction on this sort of scale" I think the people of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden with disagree.

[@arzc7]

Tokyo Fire-bombing also

[@andershaggstrom3945]

You have a point, but the whole World did not watch those events live on TV.

[@KAHHHH8548]

Why are you even mentioning that? Do you disagree with him about 9/11 or what?

[@thomasoshaughnessey6925]

Snow does say that this was during time of peace unlike the Second World War.

[@Martial-Mat]

@@thomasoshaughnessey6925 A time of peace because America never formally declared war, but they were in the Middle East killing Arabs.

[@NickyMitchell85]

I started using a mobile phone back in 2000, I think 💭 for my 15th birthday 🎂 back then but it was far from a smartphone. It just had a green-backlit LCD screen but it was definitely a cellphone through and through.

[@smadaf]

It's amazing how microphones have gotten worse. Back in the dark ages of the 1970s-2010s, they used to be tiny things you could clip to your tie or collar, or things held out of view on booms; but now apparently it's impossible to record sound for a KZbin video without a microphone the size of a small watermelon, on an arm with seventeen hinges, and a pop-screen almost as big as a pizza. They don't make 'em like they used to! And the studios have gotten so noisy that people can't even hear themselves think without putting on giant ear-protectors with little speakers in them, as if they were seated under a helicopter's engine.

[@geddyleesmullet84]

You realise that those microphones that there using in the interview are for radio broadcasts and for podcasts as well, plus the screens in front of the microphone are meant for minimising air flow from our breath which would cause popping on the microphone. I believe this video is a podcast interview hence the broadcast microphones and the nice audio quality.

[@ads2686]

the microphones is for a podcast

[@Zizumia]

I was pretty young when 9/11 happened so I didn't really grasp the significance at the time. But I found the entry in my mom's journal about that day and she thought that the world was going to end. The fears Americans had during the Cold War were coming true but the attacks were from an unknown force. I can't imagine knowing that the world would never be the same. And through the world wars and all the conflicts since the Civil War, America was untouched, and that security vanished before our very eyes.

[@dvsdawl]

Isn’t it crazy how different our world was then?? The fact that everyone watching the news thought that first plane was an accident shows you how better everything was.. ppl still had innocence..

[@tonemarieantonsen1597]

I was 21 years old and and couldn't believe what a saw on tv,was in totally shock over how evil human can be.😵😱😢

[@DdotRay86]

More than anything, the very notion of truth died this day.

[@ATLcentury334]

The stench is actually from the thousands of bodies that were never recovered, nor will they ever be.

[@PC-Phobic-Jean-Rene]

9/11 _"a day of incomprehensible tragedy"_ --- The day the World changed.

[@teddywest4910]

You are a very intelligent human being , sir !

[@josephdesouza5457]

I remember receiving a call from a friend telling me that a plane crashed into the world trade centre , I had no idea of the building . Popped into the bookmakers . Nothing unusual on the main screens . Asked the manager to turn on normal tv . It was then I saw the the 2nd plane hit !

[@patisulambert5669]

After 9/11, a profound silence descended on Southern California. There were no planes flying; the significance was chilling. We all knew nothing would ever be the same.

[@soggyys]

My grandpa died during this but I was not alive back then.

[@kookytoots6755]

Why did the interviewer say people had no mobile phones back then??

[@EKL-qu7ih]

Obviously in the sense there were no smart phones