9/11 NYC Plane Flyover Plan Slammed, ‘This Is The Worst Idea Ever’

A plan to have a plane flyover in New York City on September 11 is facing tons of scrutiny from locals who feel it is disrespectful to the memories of those who were killed 19 years ago during the 9/11 terror attacks.

The planned flyover will involve an F-18 jet that will go over the Hudson river towards the Verrazzano Bridge at 3:30 p.m. on the 19th anniversary of the attacks. The aircraft will fly at approximately 2,500 ft.

However, the event isn’t being well-received, with many criticizing it as a bad idea and distasteful considering the day.

WHO IS THE IDIOT WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 11, 2020

This is the worst idea ever. Did you ask anyone who was in NYC on 9/11--because every last one of them would tell you.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) September 11, 2020

As someone who was there and lost acquaintances, not only is this insensitive and tasteless, inappropriate, an insult to first responders and those who lost loved ones, it shows the world the jingoistic overcompensation US military “leadership” has and continued tone-deafness.
— Colin Nekritz (@imagewrangler) September 11, 2020

It underscores just how much America lost from 9/11 because of its utter failure to self reflect and realise how many problems it causes around the world. You could have responded with humility and accepted that you have done much worse but you didn't
— Admiral Boaty Van Boatface 🌻 (@amias) September 11, 2020

Terrible. This needs to be cancelled.
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) September 11, 2020

Others worried about the level of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder it could inflict on people who still have vivid memories of the day.

.What? CANCEL THIS!! This is insane and cruel to those of us who still suffer from PTSD when we hear a low-flying plane no matter where we are, yet alone flying down the Hudson River past the WTC!
— Arlene Kaplan (@ArleneKaplan) September 10, 2020

We all remember not only the original hijacked planes but also the fighter jets on 09/11. This is literally like tearing open a closed scar until it bleeds again just so you can throw some salt on it.
— NYCINOC (@nycinoc) September 11, 2020

Some questioned if it was actually a seriously planned thing, especially since more lives have been lost since with the ongoing pandemic.

So, instead of a somber show of remembrance and heartfelt solidarity with the survivors of the people who were lost, we're having a despot style power-display air show, while the current crises that has so far, needlessly claimed 192k, continues.
— Storming Elysium (andrew Scott Ring) (@StormingElysium) September 11, 2020

The flyover is one event planned to commemorate the dead and remember the day that changed New York, and the United States as a whole. In New York City, a gathering at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza will be restricted only to family members of those who died this year due to the pandemic, and there will not be an in-person reading of the victims’ names. The reading was pre-recorded and will be broadcast throughout the plaza and live-streamed online.

Moments of silence will also be observed at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m., 9:59 a.m., 10:03 a.m. and 10:28 a.m., to commemorate when the hijacked planes crashed into the North and South Towers in New York, when the towers fell, and when planes struck both the Pentagon in Washington DC and a field in Shanksville, Pa.

Another event organized by the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation will also take place near Zuccotti Park, and President Trump plans to attend a ceremony at the Memorial in Pennsylvania.