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People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed September 11, 2001, after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in a suspected terrorist attack.
‘It looked like an airplane crashed into the building!’ NYU student shouts in disturbing footage of the attack on the World Trade Center
9:24-9:38 (approximately): Three people either try to climb down or fall from a 79th floor window, 79-351, on the southern end of the South Tower's east face close to the southeast corner. [83] Firefighter Danny Suhr is preparing to enter the Tower when he's struck by a jumper, Both of them are killed instantly. [ 84 ]
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, four passenger jets were commandeered by 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists after takeoff. Two of these hijacked airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were intentionally crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing or trapping well over 1,300 people above the 91st floor of the North Tower and more ...
In particular, the fires on floors 7 through 9 and 11 through 13 continued to burn out of control during the afternoon. [86] At approximately 2:00 pm, firefighters noticed a bulge in the southwest corner of 7 World Trade Center between the 10th and 13th floors, a sign that the building was unstable and might cave to one side or "collapse". [87]
CBS News photojournalist Mark LaGanga drove down Manhattan's West Side Highway on 11 September, 2001, unaware the south tower had already collapsed on itself. LaGanga can be seen walking up the ...
The impact was witnessed by countless people in the streets of New York City as well as the nearby state of New Jersey, but few video recordings captured the moment. Jules Naudet captured the only known footage clearly depicting Flight 11's impact. The media quickly began reporting on the incident and speculated that the crash had been an accident.
The FBI has recently made public several photos from the investigation inside the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The images, posted to the FBI's records vault, give a new look ...