“Where were you ,” moments of the last decade?
Concorde was an icon of the aviation industry, the supersonic passenger jet that could fly from America to Europe in half the time of other aircraft. It was one of the few planes that could still make people stop in the street and look up when it flew overhead. On July 25, 2000 Air France flight 4590 took off from Charles de Gaulle, debris on the runway punctured a tyre on Concorde as it took off. The tyre explosion caused the fuel tank to rupture, the aircraft was unable to gain speed or height and ultimately crashed killing all 109 people on board. Concorde was retied from service in 2003 with the last three flights landing at Heathrow on 24th October.
At 8.46am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 the world changed when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Centre's North Tower. Seventeen minutes later the world changed again, when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, with television cameras capturing the horror. At 9.37am American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon and then at 10.03am United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks and changing the world forever.
On February 6, 1952 King George VI died, his wife, Queen Elizabeth, then became known as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The Queen Mum was consistently one of the most popular members of the royal family and her death on March 30, 2002 brought out a huge period of national mourning. When she laid in state for three days more than 200,000 people filed past to pay their respects. On the day of her funeral more than one million people gathered outside Westminster Abbey and along the 23-mile route to her final resting place in Windsor Castle. The Queen Mother was 101-years-old at her passing.
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Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq in 1979 and for the next 14 years played a significant part in many of the major incidents in the Middle East. In 1980 he invaded Iran and was involved in a bloody war with that country for the next eight years. In 1990 he invaded Kuwait, which started the Persian Gulf War and as part of the ceasefire from that war Hussein agreed to scrap all poison and germ weapons. Then in 2002 in his state of the union address, President George W Bush referred to Iraq as part of an axis of evil and accused Saddam of possessing weapons of mass destruction. After a year of debate and build-up a US-led invasion of Iraq started on March 20, 2003, but Hussein escaped. He was finally captured on December 14. In June 2004 he was handed over to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial, on November 5, Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and on December 30, 2006, he was hanged.
On Boxing Day 2004 a huge earthquake occurred under the Indian Ocean, just off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia; with a magnitude of 9.3, it was the second largest earthquake recorded on a seismograph (the largest measured 9.5 in Chile in 1960). The earthquake triggered a huge tsunami, which hit coastal communities several hours later with waves of up to 30 feet. There were no tsunami warning systems in place so many people in those coastal areas were unaware that the tsunami was heading for them. The death toll was between 230,000 to 300,000 from 11 countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India being the hardest hit.
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At 8.50am on July 7, 2005 three suicide bombers detonated bombs on the London underground, within one minute of each other. The three blasts happened near Liverpool Street, Paddington and St Pancras. Almost one hour later, at 9.47am a fourth suicide bomber detonated his device on the Number 30 bus in Tavistock Square. The bombings killed 52 people plus the four suicide bombers. It was the largest act of terrorism in the UK since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Over 700 people were injured and London's underground services were completely closed, bringing even more chaos to the city. The bombings were carried out by British Muslim men, who claimed they were motivated by Britain's involvement in the Iraq War.
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