Social worker calls NYC Boeing 747 flyby an “absolute travesty”

Apr 28, 2009

New York (CNN.com) – Linda Garcia-Rose, a social worker who counsels post-traumatic stress disorder patients in an office three blocks from where the World Trade Center stood, called the flight an “absolute travesty.” Watch the White House respond to questions about the scare »

“There was no warning. It looked like the plane was about to come into us,” she said. “I’m a therapist, and I actually had a panic attack.”

Garcia-Rose, who works with nearly two dozen patients ages 15 to 47, said she was inundated with phone calls from patients.

“They’re traumatized. They’re asking ‘How could this happen?’ They’re nervous. Their anxiety levels are high,” she said.

Garcia-Rose said she is considering filing a class-action suit against the government for sanctioning the plane’s unannounced flight.

“I believe the government has done something really wrong,” she said.  – Quote from Official who OK’d N.Y. flyby accused of ‘felony stupidity

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