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Originally Posted by nostatic
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I lived 1.5 miles from the crash site. I'm on my way to a Doctor appt. at a hospital which was between where I was coming from and my house and I see smoke in the area of my neighborhood. I was concerned since my house was on a canyon and I suspected a BIG canyon fire.
Entered the hospital, people are acting stunned, some listening to portable radios. Got to my Dr.'s office, same situation. My doc called me in his office where he had a radio and I then found out what had happened just minutes before.
The newscaster, obviously shaken, was emotionally begging people to go donate blood. My doc just shook his head and said quietly "no need for that." In a stunned state myself then, I said "huh?" "There won't be any survivors" he said.
When I left the hospital I did not want to go to my house so I drove to a buddy’s in Mission Hills. He was a professional photographer who happened to keep a press pass current and he’d just returned home from the crash site. He’d gotten there along with the first fire trucks, ambulances and police and took many pictures, one of which was a primary shot in Time magazine.
Steve described the carnage he’d seen. Because people don’t like to fly facing aft, the seatbelts cut most of the passengers in half. Body parts were strewn over a wide area, some limbs up in trees and on roof tops. Some of the rescue workers were throwing up as they went through the scene. Many subsequently had long periods of psychiatric counseling to help them deal with the trauma caused by what they had witnessed.
A horribly tragic morning. Unfortunately, of course, my doctor was right.