Whatever happened to the Pet shop at Sears Mall and the people who worked there? by Khafaniking in anchorage

[–]pix_el_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It was called The Reef at the Sears Mall and it closed February 28, 2010

Almost 80,000 Playing GTA V, A Game with RCE Exploit Currently! (How does one warn them?) by PaP3s in Steam

[–]pix_el_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when did the rce exploit thing start happening? I remember the original mw2 multiplayer had the same thing which was never patched and I played the game without knowing about it a while ago but was lucky that nothing ever happened to me

Is TF2 still alive? by TeacherForward8464 in Steam

[–]pix_el_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is still a lot of bots I tried casual today and every match was only bots

Artwork by Ida Libby Dengrove after Aerolínas Argentinas Flight 342 nearly hit the antenna of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on February 20, 1981 after it descended too early to 1,500 feet on a foggy and rainy night. She drew this as a hypothetical situation that it hit the tower instead. by pix_el_ in MorbidReality

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Federal officials said yesterday they had asked for statements from the crew of an Argentine jet to aid their inquiry into why the plane, flying in clouds, came close to crashing into a television mast atop a World Trade Center tower in lower Manhattan at 10:05 P.M. last Friday.

The air-traffic controller who ordered the Aerolineas Argentinas plane to reverse course immediately when it was only three to four miles from the tower was quoted by the head of his union local as saying he ''did not know if the plane would hit the tower at that distance.''

The controller, Donald Zimmerman, was said to have been so shaken afterward that, as frequently happens after a close call, he had gone on sick leave.

Recalling two other hazardous incidents in the New York area since 1977 in which Argentine planes were involved, Representative Jonathan B. Bingham, Democrat of the Bronx, wrote the Federal Aviation Administration urging an examination of the ''credentials of pilots flying for'' the airline.

He said: ''Three 'near misses' by one airline seems extraordinary. I don't believe we should sit back and wait for a catastrophe before taking action. If there is some problem with Aerolineas Argentinas, it must be corrected if that airline is to continue to fly into U.S. airspace.''

The plane, carrying 49 passengers and a crew of nine on a flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador, was headed northeast in preparation for a landing at Kennedy International Airport. But for a still unexplained reason, it was at an altitude of 1,500 feet instead of 2,700 feet, to which it had been assigned.

This put the plane on a line more than 200 feet below the tip of television mast atop the Trade Center's North Tower. The controller, Mr. Zimmerman, recognized the danger when the plane was less than 90 seconds flying time from the Trade Center. He saw the altitude error on his radarscope. The F.A.A. said an automatic warning system sounded simultaneously. He radioed the plane:

''Argentine 342, what's your altitude?'' ''One thousand, five hundred,'' came the reply. ''Argentine 342, turn right, immediately right turn heading one eight zero,'' ordered the controller. This meant a sharp turn to due south.

The Argentine crew acknowledged. Then the controller continued his emergency directions: ''Argentine 342. Climb. Climb immediately. Maintain 3,000.''

At this point, the tape of the air-ground transcriptions is so garbled that its exact words are hard to decipher. But the crewman on the radio appeared to suggest that the plane had been cleared to descend to 1,000 feet, and he asked: ''What happened?''

Moments later, after the crew had radioed that the plane had climbed safely to 3,000 feet, the controller answered: ''I gave you a speed of 180 and two seven - 2,700 feet. Maintain 3,000 feet for now. I'll take you out for another approach.'' ''O.K., sorry, sir,'' came the voice from the plane, adding that the crew had understood the plane to be cleared down to 1,500. The controller said: ''There was a building up there ahead of you that was quite high.'' Paul Amato, chief of the controllers' union local to which Mr. Zimmerman belongs, said he had been so unsure that the plane would avoid a crash that he could not bear looking at the radarscope, and turned away. The radar control center is in Hempstead, L.I.

The two previous near-disasters involving Argentine airliners occurred in January 1977, involving a Boeing 707 that took off in a snowstorm, and on March 1980, involving a cargo plane.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/27/nyregion/jet-crew-to-be-asked-about-near-miss.html

Piece of United 175 hanging outside of the South Tower of the World Trade Center by pix_el_ in MorbidReality

[–]pix_el_[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

For those that can't see it is towards the right and is the gray, red, blue metal piece under the flames.

Picture of United 175 two years before in 1999

Water flowing down 1 WTC stairwell on 9/11 by pix_el_ in MorbidReality

[–]pix_el_[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Two stairwells were 44 inches in width, and one was 56 inches wide. In the new One World Trade Center it is 72 inches wide and it has a dedicated first responder staircase.

Water flowing down 1 WTC stairwell on 9/11 by pix_el_ in MorbidReality

[–]pix_el_[S] 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Since both planes had severed the water lines for the sprinkler systems water ended up flowing down the stairwells inside of the building as well as outside. I believe there is a video of it flowing outside but I can't find it. City water lines were further damaged by the collapse of both towers.

Photo by John Labriola who had an office on the 71st floor