Near Miss at the World Trade Center - 1981

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It's not often I go into details relating to aviation accidents and incidents, but in this particular instance, the near miss of Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 342, when it nearly crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1981, is something that seems to have been taken straight out of a made-for-TV disaster flick, while at the same time being tragically prescient when considering the two Twin Towers and their eventual fate twenty years later.

Also, while doing research into this video, I stumbled across a forum thread from Airliners.net which was discussed during December 2000, and talks about both the near-miss of Flight 342, and the possible results of what would happen if a Boeing 767-300 accidentally smashed into the World Trade Center, an even more eerie part of this conversation being that one of the participants in the post mentioned they actually worked inside the Twin Towers - thankfully they didn't fall victim to the later events.

Either way, it's a fascinatingly strange look at what people thought of the topic in the time before 9/11, one person even commenting that 'one terrorist attempt was enough', unaware of what would occur only a year later:

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60625

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References:
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