ian dutton happens to be an airline pilot for american airlines. he's on the phone now., felt and thought. >> actually, i had flown all night from new york to oslo, and so you know, the first thing you want to do is have a little bit of a rest. so i was just waking up at 3:30 local time when the explosion occurred. i am in a tower hotel that is maybe a quarter from the actual bombing site, and i am on a high floor so i have a good vantage point of the scene. i shook the whole hotel. i was not sure if my bed was hit by lightning, or if an earthquake occurred, and i know earthquakes are not common so i thought it was unlikely here, and so i looked out and saw spoke and debris. the people out on the street were in a moment of shock. it was not panic, but more of this can't be happening or going on. it reminded me -- being a resident of lower manhattan, i was in the middle of the scene on september 11th of 2001, and it reminded me very much of that same feeling of helplessness, and confusion. >> so some real parallels that you experienced through all of this. when you looked

. >> let's get an eyewitness account now from ian dutton. he's in oslo, he's a u.s.lot and isian dutton. he is staying in oslo now. let's just start with the moment you heard the explosion. you were sleeping? >> yeah. you know, we flew overnight from new york city to oslo. the first thing you want to do after flying all night is have a little bit of a rest. so i slept for a couple hours. i was just waking up. it was just a minute or two before i planned on getting out of bed. and the entire building, the hotel you toer in downtown oslo, it just shook to concussion and absolutely blew me away. and it seemed as if my bed had been struck by lightning. it was that immediate and that impactful. and so with that concussion, obviously, it was clear that something was going on. so i rushed to the window and looked outside. there was a giant cloud of smoke and debris just emerging from the plaza. >> about how far away? is it literally a quarter mile? if you're feeling a concussion blow, a movement blow, am i right about that shaking in your room that far away from the bomb si

and joining us on the phone is ian dutton. tell us where you were when this blast occurred? >> caller: i am on the 28th floor of a tower hotel here in downtown oslo, about a quarter of a mile from the blast site. i work for a u.s. airline and had flown overnight to oslo and arrived a few hours before the blast so was catching up on sleep after the overnight flight. >> did you feel it? >> caller: absolutely. at first i was not sure if i my bed been hit by lightning or there was an earthquake, which is unusual in oslo, and so i looked out the window and saw debris arising from the scene. there was no panic, but just disbelief. norway being such a safe place in general, people did not think something like this could be happening. >> did you feel one or two explosions? >> caller: i pretty definitely felt one. there was a rumble like thunder, like a single bolt of lightning. i did not -- i have seen the reporting about a second, but did not sense anything like that. >> can you describe some of the damage for me there? >> caller: i am on a high floor looking down on the damaged si

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ian dutton is a pilot for u.s. airlines. he was in a hotel close to the blast site. understand you were in a hotel just about a quarter of a mile from the explosions and at the time you described feeling like your bed was struck by lightning. can you explain that? >> well, yeah. it's actually more powerful, the pressure wave going through your chest. we had flown overnight from new york to oslo. obviously the first thing you want to do is have a little rest. i was just waking up to go make an afternoon of it. and the concussion struck the hotel, shook it very vie vently. -- violently. it seemed like a combination of an earthquake and a lightning bolt, or a thunder blast. and so i got up immediately and went to the window. and saw this cloud of smoke and debris merging from the blah sa area where the momming was centered. initially the feel you could see, it didn't look so much like panic as disbelief. people really were just in some kind of amazement that this really could not be happening. that was my initial reaction living in lo living in lower manhattan on septem