MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - As Thursday marks 24 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, a former New York police department detective took the stage in Oshkosh to share his experience as a part of the EAA Aviation Museum Speaker Series.

WMTV caught up with the detective, David Norman, before his speech and learned his account from that day more than two decades ago.

Working with emergency services that day when the call came in when the plane hit the first tower, he believed it was a stunt gone wrong.

“It was such a clear day and the first thing in my mind was not a terrorist event,” he explained.

As he traveled closer to the scene of the tower, he saw the magnitude of the event.

“I could actually see the huge, massive hole in the side of it. Me and Roger (his partner) looked at each

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