The ugly/scary truth that the airlines, NTSB and TSA don't want you to know is that if any ID bearing employee goes off the rails, there is absolutely nothing to prevent him/her from taking a plane down.

Therefore, this was not a fail in the airport security net. I'm sure that most of you guys are aware of this by now, but as a mechanic for the airline(Horizon?) the dead man had ID and clearance qualification to taxi the aircraft. The one of the most eerie parts of that afternoon was hearing the sirens blaring from street level - by Anonymous To this date, there has been no viable explanation of what had *actually* occurred that summer day. I was trapped on the 65th floor of the Columbia Center. Upon realizing / recalling the pending catastrophe, people had started rushing the stairwells. The financial district was frozen there were no traffic signals to direct traffic all communications and HVAC systems were also frozen all building operations/elevators were frozen communications at the international shipping piers were frozen and the entire downtown Seattle populous had been trapped in buildings/skyscrapers, with no form of communication available to provide emergency updates. The power outage had lasted two hours, slightly more. Two years ago (summer) the entire financial district of downtown Seattle had experienced an eerie black out in the middle of the afternoon, on a 'normal' work day.

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