Sep 11, 2008 7:28 am US/Eastern
Logan Worker Had Ticket For United Flight 175
Arnold Tardie & Wife Caught Earlier Flight
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
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Longtime Logan Airport parking attendant Arnold Tardie was scheduled to fly on United 175 on September 11, 2001. He and his wife took an earlier flight.
WBZ
Arnold Tardie has been a parking garage attendent at Logan Airport for nearly ten years. He knew many of the airline employees who died on September 11, 2001. "A lot of the people I used to see coming in and out of the garage."
He also knows how close he came to dying that day.
Tardie and his wife were going to visit their daughter in Hawaii. They were supposed to fly to California on United Flight 175 that morning, but had switched to the earlier Delta flight. Had they not, they would have been among the victims of the terrorist attacks.
"I think about it a lot," he said. "It was fateful for everybody. It hit hard. It hurt a lot of people."
Tardie is spending this September 11th visiting relatives in Pennsylvania. Before he left, he went to the
new memorial dedicated this week at Logan Airport. Tardie said a prayer for the people on board the two flights -
American Flight 11 and United Flight 175 - knowing too well it could have been his name, and that of his wife also gracing this memorial.
"As fate turned out, we were lucky that day."
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