At the 9/11 Memorial at the World
Trade Center site on the first day it was open to the public September
12, 2011 in New York City, visitors make rubbings from one of the
panels with the names of the victims of the September 11, 2011 terrorists
attacks. Looking ahead access to the
memorial is free, but will be tightly controlled with visitors needing
to obtain passes in advance, entering at specified times. |
 Daniel
B. Muscatello
Managing Director, Cargo & Logistics
Landrum & Brown
As I read through the very moving articles that the
industry contributed, I saw none from the Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey - which provides and maintains the most consistent, permanent
and integral components of the regional air cargo community - the airports.
No airline or any other air cargo related
business suffered any greater pain or personal loss that day.
I worked for the Port Authority for 27
years and worked in One World Trade Center for 20.
I watched the towers come down standing
next to Bill DeCota and other aviation staff at an airport conference
in Montreal, and let me assure you that very few of the writers of the
stories you have compiled could understand what Bill and his staff felt
in a darkened conference hall wondering how many of their closest friends
and associates were gone, and the terrible frustration and helplessness
of it all.
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