240 Miles Up, Seeing Tragedy

There have been a lot of eyewitness accounts of the events of September 11th posted on the web but this has to be the most unusual:

"Even from an altitude of 240 miles, flying along an orbital track carrying it far north of New York, the terrible plume of smoke and ash wafting up from the tip of Manhattan was all too visible."

Friday, October 12th, 2001 1:45pm

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