Safety
9/11 Report: Aviation Ten Years Later

For the complete report:
AIN_2011_TenYearsLater.pd

For the complete report:
AIN_2011_TenYearsLater.pdf

In the pain and bewilderment of September 11, 2001, only three things were certain: the U.S. had been hit hard in the homeland; the calendar suddenly had a new “before and after” marker; and aviation, the commandeered weapon of choice, would be on the leading edge of a cascade of change. Three questions dominated: who did this, why and what comes next?

To mark the passage of 10 years since that darkest of crackling-clear late-summer days, we reprint in this special section the entire coverage of 9/11 that filled the first 23 pages of the October 2001 edition of Aviation International News. The issue earned NBAA’s 2002 Gold Wing journalism award for its coverage of the events as they related to business aviation. We also examine how that cascade of change–simple enough to identify on the day but impossible to predict–has transpired.

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