An underground hero on 9/11: subway operator evacuated passengers and manuevered train to safety after system locked down
September 9, 2011 | 6:55am
Not all heroism on 9-11 happened
A quick-thinking motorman miraculously managed to evacuate over 800 people from the subway system, closing emergency brakes by hand and deftly maneuvering the train to safety after the system locked down.
His amazing tale barely registered at the time of the tragedy, but veteran subway operator Kevin Harrington’s grateful passengers have never forgotten his bravery.
“Two weeks ago I was at the Botanical Gardens and an Indian woman came up and gave me a hug,” Harrington told the Post.
“She said ‘I was on your train on 9-11!”
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On that tragic day, Harrington navigated his jam-packed subway into the Fulton Street station around ten a.m.
He’d heard there was a plane that had hit the World Trade Center when he left Brooklyn at the start of his trip, but like many New Yorkers assumed it was an accident.
By the time he got to the station — about a block away from the site of the attacks — a second plane had hit the World Trade Center.
Tower two was moments from falling.
http://nypost.com/2011/09/09/an-underground-hero-on-911-subway-operator-evacuated-passengers-and-manuevered-train

Оказывается, во время знаменитого события чудеса героизма проявляли американские водители метро.
Они ловко маневрировали между падающими башнями, разрушившими линии метро...

Прошу прощения за мой плохой английский, но водитель поезда слышал шум обрушения одной башни, по его словам, потом второй...
Это сколько же времени едет обычный поезд под Манхеттеном - неужели целый час?
А где были другие поезда и пассажиры? Было ли остановлено движение и когда?

Отредактировано l2 (08.07.2015 11:27:00)