On September 12, 2001, a Continental Express plane was sitting at a closed airport in Newark, NJ following a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, causing smoke to continue to erupt from the remains of the World Trade Center. Airplane. One of the hijacked planes left Newark Airport and later crashed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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More than one-fifth of the US population is too young to remember how they traveled by air before September 11, 2001.
Passenger loved ones were once able to greet and say goodbye at the gate. Travelers did not have to take off their shoes or belts or remove liquid from their carry-on baggage before passing the checkpoint, not to mention waiting on a long security line. It was years ago that airlines asked passengers to check their bags and choose their seats, but today’s average domestic fares are cheaper.
From airport security to flight attendant training to the number of airlines that exist, the entire…
