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However, when he's not in a hurry, he prefers flying his twin-engine Baron, which he's had for over 20 years, because he can give himself two days, taking time to stop along the way at "a little pokey airport" to reacquaint himself with his country. He happened to be flying the Baron on Sept. 11, 2001.

" I was the only guy flying right over that holocaust, at least that I know of, when it all happened," he said. "I was flying alone, on the way to the West Coast. I got right over the World Trade Center, climbing at 7,000 feet. I looked down and suddenly saw this great big column of smoke puff up. I didn't see the plane, because by that time it was inside the building. I just thought it was an explosion of some kind."
Robertson said that after he had climbed to 8,500 feet, and leveled off, the other plane hit.

" Again, I didn't see what caused it, but the air traffic controller came on and I gave my call number," he said. "They said, 'We have a national emergency. Land at the nearest available airport.' I'd never heard that in all the years I'd been flying. I was hermetically sealed for three and a half days in beautiful downtown Allentown. I couldn’t take my plane out. I finally got out on a commercial flight. Later, my buddy Craig McCaw had one of his pilots, who was out on the East Coast, fly the airplane back to me. I was up giving a talk at an aviation conference in Oregon.”

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Wow, all these replies and I never got a single email notification.

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