9/11 terrorists were late for flight, but could still note: "Feel guilty for 15 years"

September 11, 2001. Vaughn Allex as check inbediende started at Dulles Airport in Virginia. Although two brothers are late for their flight (flight 77 to Los Angeles), he leaves them still on the plane. Little did he know that precisely these two brothers would hijack the plane would crash just over an hour later at the Pentagon. With 184 fatalities resulted.

Fifteen years later Allex still faces an enormous guilt. "Not a day goes by that I think back on it. I could have prevented the tragedy, "he testifies at the

American television.

It was only a day later, when the FBI agents showed him the list of passengers that Allex realized what had happened. On the list were the names of Salem and Nawaf Alhazmi, the two brothers who were late and along with three accomplices had hijacked the plane. "I looked at the FBI, she looked at me. They knew it, I know I did it. "

"No one wanted to talk to me"

"What did you do," she asked yet. "I did it, I repeated. I put them on the plane. "

Although both the FBI and the American Aviation Authorities (FAA) Allex acquittals of all debt, the airport employee remained all these years, still struggling with an enormous guilt."Every time I arrived at work, I was suddenly completely alone. Nobody wanted to talk to me. "

Allex went to support groups, but that did not help. "How could I sit in a room with people who were mourning, who were crying for what had happened. What could I say to them?How could my part in what happened, explain? Hey, I'm the guy who let the terrorists on the run ... "

It was only through the support of his family and close friends to Allex there on "new come through." It was a bottomless pit for a long time, "he says. In 2008 he resigned as airport staff and went to battle of Homeland Security. "But now it's finally starting to feel like there is again some light in my life."

By the Editors Nieuwsblad.be Photo Het Nieuwsblad.