The Day I Thought The Plane Was Crashing

Nancy Daley
3 min readApr 6, 2022

Christmas 2001

You just never know. (Author’s photo)

Cast your memory back to those last few months of that year when everything ended. We’d been struck by the unthinkable, which makes it terribly easy to think unthinkable things can happen at any time.

After the World Trade Center was felled, a plane crashed into New York neighborhood, and then there was something about some guy on a plane with a bomb in…

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Nancy Daley

Artist, food-worshipper, grouch, retired psychologist and uni lecturer (Human Sexuality). Currently running for Queen of the Universe.