ABOVE: Aerial footage of the fire drill – complete with actual fire and smoke – held at Boston’s Logan International Airport on the anniversary of 9/11
BOSTON – Officials at Boston’s Logan International Airport are apologizing for holding a fire drill, complete with smoke and flames, on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The two hijacked jets that were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York flew out of Logan.
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The runway fire drill, announced on the airport’s Facebook page, drew harsh condemnation.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, the agency that runs the airport, said in a statement that it “apologizes for conducting the fire training exercise and understands that it may have offended many of those touched by the events of Sept. 11.”
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Several events were held at the airport to mark the anniversary.
“How clueless and insensitive can you be,” one woman wrote on the airport’s Facebook page.
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