January 13, 2001, New York Airport.
Frenzied journalists, lugging all sorts of high-powered cameras, photographed the bodies being carried off the distant plane through the separating iron fence, sending the images to their respective news desks at the first opportunity. Whether intentional or not, certain individuals with clear NSA and FBI insignias, along with some high-ranking officials from the New York Police Department's Detective Bureau and various other departments often seen in the news, were all captured in the frame, each with their own close-ups. This made the journalists, who had already been tipped off, as ecstatic as if they were on drugs.
In the United States, a few deaths were not considered a major event. Even a dozen fatalities on a plane would only be a short-lived topic of conversation. But the simultaneous presence of so many high-level departments and personnel here meant that what they were capturing on camera was definitely major news, the kind rarely seen.
