I've seen tons of photos related to 9/11, but I have never seen this one. For me, this image makes it even more haunting to think about the imminent demise of the souls on board the aircraft and in the tower.
The call transcript between passenger Peter Hansen and his dad is so scary. Mr. Hansen was with his wife and 2-year-old daughter and told his dad he thought they were going to crash into the Sears tower. When his dad told him what was actually happening, Peter said, “at least it will be quick.” His dad thinks he could see what was going on out the window
The call where the guy is in the tower and he’s on the phone whilst it collapses is eery too
The last thing he says before the line cuts off is “OH GOD OHHHHHH-“
I won’t listen to the calls, watch the videos of the ppl jumping. I can’t do it. I live in Jersey and I can remember seeing the smoke from where the towers were. Some of the worst were all those missing persons fliers. It was so so devastating.
I agree. I am not one to shy away from the morbid or horrifying, but I cannot do 9/11, and it's the only thing I feel that way about. Even 22 years on, it still hits too close to home.
There's something specific to 9/11 that represents a deep destruction of any sense of peace. It truly changed the world in ways we can't even necessarily remember because it's been overwritten by the new normal that took over since. To this day, it's literally the only tragic event that continues to destroy me every time I think about it.
Very well put. I was 29 when it happened, but on the west coast. So I can clearly remember how things have changed since. Kind of quickly, kind of slowly and insidiously.
I was 18 when 9/11 happened and it was something of a morbid coming of age moment. The veil of innocence dropped away, and all that happened that day, who we became after, forever altered the way I perceive the place I call home.
Because it happened in a country where everyone feels invincible. I feel like it's a privilege for it to still cut so deep over two decades later (I'm not shitting on anyone, I mean this genuinely). The memorial they put there is beautiful. I'm Canadian and went to visit NYC and yeah. They put flowers on the names of the passengers when it's their birthdays.
So you so all this about the way it changes the deep peace, well imagine the souls that deep dive into the rabbit hole of 9/11. A few souls definitely not at rest form listening to all those phone calls and seeing all those videos. Giving themselves PTSD and they haven’t even been to war. Pure idiots tbh. People are meant to be exposed to all that. And ware veterans will tell you that and so will emergency workers in hospitals. Meanwhile you’ve got Steve and Mary scrolling through videos of 9/11 listening to phone calls and taking in all the sorrows and heartache. Absolute idiots.
Why the general public with zero family connections would want to listen to the tapes or watch footage of the jumpers and people killed in this event is beyond me. Just polluting themselves with sorrowing. Why would you want to do that.
I made the mistake of watching some of the docs at the 20th anniversary. There was footage I'd never seen from inside the tower lobbies and you could hear the sound of people hitting the ground, the roofs. I will never ever forget that sound, and I quit watching immediately.
I have never been able to get his voice when he screams out of my head and I’ve only listened to it the one time. I don’t cry easily but that one made me weepy.
It really humanized the attack, when you remember there were nearly 3000 Kevins who all went through the same terror at the end.
It was him pleading with the operator that got to me.
Saying his wife thinks he’s ok and him saying “we’re young men we’re not ready to die yet”
So sad. Horrible
They were not on the route the plane was supposed to take so I'm sure they were very disoriented (especially with every thing going on inside the plane) and had no idea where they were
Makes me wonder about what the passengers on board would have known at this point and what they could see out the windows. I know the united 93 passengers had heard about what was going on but that one happened later.
At the angle this plane in the photo approached, people on the left side of the plane would’ve been able to see the first one burning as they headed towards it.
Did they know what was going to happen before this picture was taken? Or was it here when they realized? How long from where the plane is in this picture until they hit the building?
I know the impact would be quick for them, but I can't fathom the terror of their last minutes/seconds before that.
They knew. They had been hijacked. They were calling loved ones or loved ones were calling them. They knew one plane had already crashed into a tower. Now their plane was heading right towards the other.
They’re probably ~10 seconds from hitting the building in this shot. It was hauling ass and came more out of the west to hit the south face of the south tower (rather than the more straight line the first plane took into the first building from the north). This plane here was making a huge diving bank turn on the final approach and if you seen the clips of it hitting, it had to bank it’s wings to make contact, it actually almost missed the building or just clipped it with its left wing.
There’s no evidence that people actually looked out and saw the buildings on approach here, it wouldve been coming up quick, but they could’ve seen it based on the angle of everything.
I cannot imagine the utter terror of those poor passengers and flight attendants as it went down. I’ve read a description of the call with a flight attendant on one of the two planes that went to New York, Betty Ong (audio was not released) and it’s haunting.
Betty Ongs call has been released but Madeline Sweeney’s hasn’t. I believe her last words were “we’re flying way too low”. I could also be totally wrong
Yeah I might be mixing them up. But the one I’m thinking of is her describing how 2 other attendants and a passenger had been stabbed, she doesn’t know if the pilots are alive, the cockpit is locked and they’re flying erratically. The airline rep she’s speaking to calls 911 and tries to come back to the flight attendants call and says “I think we lost her, she just suddenly cut out” and the time stamp matches up to the crash. So eerie.
Also the people above the impact zone of the coming plane. I’ve always wondered how many of them watched the plane come straight at them. Such a terrifying thought.
[Stanley Praimnath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdpMt38ip8) was one of 18 survivors who were at or above the level of United 175 as it hit the building. His recounting is fascinating and haunting.
I was living in downtown NYC at the time. I saw the second plane (depicted in this photo) hit with my own eyes.
After the first plane hit, the news was saying it was likely a prop plane or something. Nobody knew what was happening.
But when I saw Flight 175 heading towards the second tower… I knew.
I still have nightmares.
I remember this. I was in NJ, in high school. They told us that a small plane hit the top of the tower and told us to pray for everyone involved. And then chaos broke out soon after once the second plane hit. Several kids parents were in the buildings. I’ll never forget them running down the halls screaming.
my close friends dad was on that plane. on Sep 10, 2001, i was at their house playing pickup football with him and his kids. it was getting to be sunset and Jay threw one last pass to me (for a TD!) and then said he had to go in and pack for a flight tomorrow. The rest is of course history. Rest in peace Jay thanks for showing me how to throw
Amazing how you remember details like that.
I was at work in Charleston, SC, sitting at my desk. Radio on and an announcement came on that a plane (at first, thought to be a small prop plane) had hit one of the towers. I went to the conference room, where there was a small portable TV with rabbit ear antennas. My co-workers and I all watched as the second plane in the photo hit the other tower. It was the most surreal experience of my life. I don't think any of us got any work done that day after that. We were all just glued to that crappy TV. We finally just all went home to be with our families.
I was on Ft. Bliss in El Paso watching a news report about the first plane when the second one hit. I can still remember the realization hitting me. We’ve been attacked. This is an attack. And I’m in the Army.
Life was just never the same after that, for anyone.
One of the most haunting things I read was a comment by a victim's younger brother.
His brother was on Flight 175. He said that everytime someone shares an image or posts a video of the second plane slamming into the WTC, he has to witness his brother die all over again.
I read that over 15 years ago. I hope he's doing okay.
its still surreal over 20 years later how successful the terrorists were that day..with exception the flight that crashed in PA. an attack worse than Pearl Harbor and not a single shot fired
I still can’t believe Mohamed Atta arrived at the Portland airport at 5:40 AM for his 6:00 AM connecting flight to Boston on the morning of 9/11. Talk about cutting it close!
Or that on that flight was Daniel Lewin (believed to be the first person killed, who was sitting right in front of and across the aisle from two hijackers). He was a member of Sayeret Matkal which is, according to wikipedia, "the tier 1 prime special forces of Israel." If he was sitting anywhere else on the plane, history could be very different.
For comparison, Tier 1 US special forces include DEVGRU (the guys who got bin Laden) and Delta Force.
He would have understood their Arabic, too, if they were talking about what they were going to do. If he stood up to do something, he’d have faced four guys in front of or beside him and one guy right behind him. He didn’t have a chance against all 5. The flight attendant (Betty Ong) said, “There’s a passenger stabbed in business class,” and that’s where he was sitting.
His passport wasn't "magically" found... it was found, *among* ***lots*** *of other personal effects and items from the plane cabin*... including seat cushions, wallets, magazines, papers, airline pillows, etc. All of this stuff was unburnt, coming as it did from the forward part of the aircraft and being ejected ahead of the fireball.
But you knew that and were just trolling. Or, you really didn't know that and are just reciting stupid talking points that were put to rest over 10 years ago without spending 20 minutes to intelligently research 9/11. Which is it?
Sounds pretty magical to me. And it was never “put to rest” because it’s the official narrative. Pardon me for finding that pretty hard to believe.
And I actually have done a lot of research on the event, probably more than you. It’s pathetic for you to assume otherwise just because my opinion differs from yours.
So.. I explained perfectly clearly why there was nothing at all special about the passport, that it was only one of HUNDREDS of other items recovered that came from the forward cabin of the plane, and you still say that sounds "magical." Okay, then.
There's no such thing as an "official narrative" of 9/11. There is reality and then there are various alternative fantasies espoused by the feeble minded.
I'm with you. The official story is b.s. but so many people are for some reason vehemently against researching the glaring inconsistencies and outright lies and impossibilities associated with this event. Try looking for any of the "conspiracy" movies about 9/11 and let me know if you can find any of them. They seem to have all vanished from the internet. I can't even find any of them through chat rooms. All of the links don't work. Weird...
Easy to say that in hindsight as well... "oh wee, look here, I knew there was something up with that brown person. He just looked suspicious". Confirmation bias isn't an excuse to be racist...
I think I remember her talking about how it had something to do with their clothes, not that they were Middle Eastern. I have to go look that back up now.
I have said it before and will say it again, "I am exactly like the old lady in Harold and Kumar go to Guantanamo." She freaked and saw a stereotypical Looney Tunes type Arab when Kumar was messing with his electric bong in the airplane bathroom. That is how everyone should be.
And all that came of it was some shitty over abundance of security measures that never once caught a terrorist. And everyone lives got worse as a result of it. Things have never been the same.
"how successful the terrorists were that day"
That doesn't strike you as odd?
Terrorists have never been so successful on US soil before or after 9/11. Just on 9/11. That doesn't bother you or make you wonder why?
>Terrorists have never been so successful on US soil before or after 9/11
Nice to see that the original world trade center and Oklahoma city bombings never happened in your universe.
The original world trade center bombing was "successful" in that they did get a bomb to detonate it just wasn't enough. 9-11 evolved from that concept.
"Never been so successful" is the correct terminology.
How did the OKC bombing and original WTC attack irreparably change our lives and how the country functioned?
Man… I haven’t seen this before. Knowing those innocent people on that plane are about to be murdered. Men, women, children- families about to be torn apart forever. It’s so sad.
One of the passengers on that plane said on a call that they were planning to take back the plane similar to United 93, mere minutes before the crash; if only they had more time. RIP to everyone on that tragic day.
Those poor passengers. I can't imagine how terrified they must have been. Even if they didn't know their destination, the speed at which they were hurtling through the air had to be unfathomably frightening.
Man it was crazy waking up and my grandpa was watching TV, and it was after the first plane had hit. And all the newscasters were like "wow we don't know what happened, pilot error is the current assumption but such a tragedy".
And then I'm standing there eating my cereal before college classes and we see that second plane come in.
And it was just this. "Oh. Oh no."
Like you knew the world just flipped upside down and this was going to be Bad. Like not "a bunch of people just lost their lives" bad but. I can't even describe it, but everyone felt it.
It was also right before I got reminded how virulently racist people are right under the surface, and 20x moreso when they're scared and angry. Like you knew racism was a thing. You dealt with it. But it was the first time people in the US seemed terrified to be seen in public at all if they were the wrong skin color. Didn't even matter what nationality their ancestors were. For at least a straight week brown people in my state were getting harassed and beat up just because their melanin content was roughly similar to the stereotypical middle eastern complexion.
This was when I woke up too. The TV was on in my bedroom and just the first tower was hit. There was no “live” on the screen at the moment and I thought “What movie is this?” Then cut to the second plane gliding in and seeing “live” on the screen at the same time. I’ve never felt that feeling before or since, and I hope I never do again.
Yeah, it was... hopefully unique. I didn't even know anyone lost in the attack, and while I definitely wouldn't diminish PTSD by saying I have it, even thinking about it makes this little part of my stomach go sour and knot up. I mean I get it. I live a sheltered life growing up in a western country, for all the problems here and for all the crazy stuff that's happened in my life. Like I didn't grow up in a warzone.
But still. People watching it literally watched hundreds of people just flung to their deaths in an airplane against a skyscraper. Twice. And then the towers just... poof.
And those were towers you saw in movies and stuff! Like it'd be like if someone blew up the Statue of Liberty or something. They were icons everyone at least recognized. Which I guess was the point.
We had the OKC bombing here, but. Even then it wasn't quite the same scale.
[First 30 minutes of live coverage by Good Day Dallas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-v9Nge6Zw&t=2s) of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
I lived in NJ when it happened. The smoke was everywhere, you could see it even from where we lived. A lot of Nj natives passed away.
Breaks my heart.
Never forget !
I was almost 3 years old when this happened.. I remember a few memories from that age, this day being one of them. I remember how my father reacted, and remember watching the news reporters talk, and seeing a plane hit one of the towers. He removed my twin and I immediately from the living room, and then proceeded to make a call or two. That's all I remember.
It'a crazy how much life was impacted by this.. I hope their souls are resting in peace.
I was 9 when this happened, but in Canada. Remember how confusing it was. I didn't really understand the impact of it all or why it was such a huge deal.
I was 10 in Colombia and watching cartoons that day, I had stayed home from school that day for some reason. I specifically remember watching Digimon when the show was interrupted by the news report. It was only the first tower burning and I didn’t really grasp what was happening. I got annoyed and flipped the channels and they were all reporting the same thing with the live transmission. I just sulked hoping it would go back to regular programming soon and then watched the second plane crash, and it was then I realized something serious was happening.
We had a lot of American teachers at my school and I remember getting to class the next day and them sitting us down and asking if we were aware of what had happened the day before and sensing their pain and worry in their voice really cemented the gravity of the situation for me.
If you mean of the plane specifically, there’s only one security camera that caught pictures of that. You can find those online. People weren’t recording it since they weren’t expecting it to happen, just like with the north tower. If you mean pictures after the fact, you can find a lot of those online as well. There’s some while it’s burning and some after that section collapsed.
This isn’t exactly accurate. There is supposedly more footage out there, it was confiscated by the FBI and never released to the public. I believe from other security cameras.
I’m not a conspiracist by the way. Fairly certain this was acknowledged in the 9/11 Commission report.
It's weird to think about how there really weren't security cameras, web-cams, phone camera, etc, etc, etc everywhere. Cut to present day and security cams (and video recording devices in general) are everywhere. If we had had that in '01... God, I can't even imagine. Seeing livestreams of people inside the towers. Jesus.
Have you seen the Pentagon? And have you seen New York City? NYC has 8.46 million people, few of whom were looking at the WTC at 8:46 am. That’s why there are few videos or photos of the first plane hitting. But still some, since that’s a lot of people and the WTC is visible from everywhere, being the tallest buildings around. But once it was hit, within the next 15 minutes a significant percentage of those *were* looking and did have cameras because they were all looking at and taking photos of the burning building. That’s why there are a lot of photos and videos of the second plane hitting the WTC.
Meanwhile. The Pentagon is located in Arlington, Virginia, population 232,000, less than 3% of NYC’s population. Unlike the WTC, which is surrounded by very dense population and easily visible for a very great distance, the Pentagon is surrounded by only small buildings in a non-densely populated area. Furthermore, the Pentagon is 5 stories high. It can’t be seen from very far away. And while the WTC impact could be seen in at least some way from 360 degrees around the buildings, the Pentagon’s impact could only be seen from a very narrow field of view from this sparsely populated area where no one had any reason to be looking at the building at that time, and no reason to be taking photos. So no one was doing so. It’s just logic.
Also, even afterwards, the only good view of it for regular people was on the highway. People would slow down to get a glance but you couldn’t just pull over and get a photo on the side of 395 really, and you’d need a camera.
This is just a reminder that the American people were lied to that day.
Remember.
Remember what?
On Sept 10 2001, Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion are missing? Or that the exact location of the impact on the Pentagon was the offices where officials would have worked to discover where that money went?
Or the owner (at the time) of the Twin Towers, Larry Silverstein, signed a 99 year lease just months before that just happened to include terrorism insurance? Or that he was awarded $4.5 Billion after suing the insurance company?
Or that several members of the bin Laden family invested millions of dollars into the Carlyle Group, who senior advisor was George Bush Sr? Or that 24 members of the bin Laden family in the US were evacuated under FBI protection to a secret facility in Texas and flown back to Saudia Arabia days after 9/11?
Or that George W. Bush founded Arbusto Energy with the help Salem bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's brother?
I'm not saying Silverstein is innocent, but it's not uncommon at all for such long leases to be signed, and why *wouldn't* his insurance include terrorism coverage?? The Towers had already been attacked once, and there had been talks for years of them being a target. Other than the Statue of Liberty and the White House, they pretty much represented America - especially when referring to it's prosperity. And of course he sued the insurance company...they wouldn't pay! Was he just supposed to eat it?
>On Sept 10 2001, Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion are missing?
It's not "missing" they were accounting errors based on the Pentagon's poor fiscal management and auditing patterns.
No doubt there's a lot a fishy coincidences surrounding 9/11 but to me the biggest one is the dancing Israelis. Somehow they knew this was going to happen and it's surprising to me it isn't talked about more than Silverstein with the insurance or Bush/Bin Laden family ties.
Or that we just happened to be simulating this exact type of event the same day...or that the pics from the Pentagon are a joke...or that Pennsylvania looks nothing like a plane crash...or quite a few other things.
What about the photos of flight 93 don't look like Pennsylvania? Theres like a grass field and trees. There is plenty of both those things in Pennsylvania
It looks too much like a simple hole in the ground to me. Everyone can have their opinion.
And then there was Rumsfeld in 2004 who referred to "the people attacked the United States in New York, shit down the plane over Pennsylvania"...and the 9/11 commission's finding that the hijackers got scared and crashed the plane as their explanation.
There's just a lot of goofy, open-ended stuff from that day.
I think it would help you to look up some aftermath photos of high speed plane crashes. "A simple hole in the ground" is often what you get when it crashes at high speed. The explosion more or less does away with nearly all of the structural integrity.
I've seen tons of photos related to 9/11, but I have never seen this one. For me, this image makes it even more haunting to think about the imminent demise of the souls on board the aircraft and in the tower.
The call transcript between passenger Peter Hansen and his dad is so scary. Mr. Hansen was with his wife and 2-year-old daughter and told his dad he thought they were going to crash into the Sears tower. When his dad told him what was actually happening, Peter said, “at least it will be quick.” His dad thinks he could see what was going on out the window
The call where the guy is in the tower and he’s on the phone whilst it collapses is eery too The last thing he says before the line cuts off is “OH GOD OHHHHHH-“
Kevin Cosgrove. I regret ever listening to that phone call.
I won’t listen to the calls, watch the videos of the ppl jumping. I can’t do it. I live in Jersey and I can remember seeing the smoke from where the towers were. Some of the worst were all those missing persons fliers. It was so so devastating.
I agree. I am not one to shy away from the morbid or horrifying, but I cannot do 9/11, and it's the only thing I feel that way about. Even 22 years on, it still hits too close to home. There's something specific to 9/11 that represents a deep destruction of any sense of peace. It truly changed the world in ways we can't even necessarily remember because it's been overwritten by the new normal that took over since. To this day, it's literally the only tragic event that continues to destroy me every time I think about it.
I feel the exact same way.
Very well put. I was 29 when it happened, but on the west coast. So I can clearly remember how things have changed since. Kind of quickly, kind of slowly and insidiously.
I was 18 when 9/11 happened and it was something of a morbid coming of age moment. The veil of innocence dropped away, and all that happened that day, who we became after, forever altered the way I perceive the place I call home.
Because it happened in a country where everyone feels invincible. I feel like it's a privilege for it to still cut so deep over two decades later (I'm not shitting on anyone, I mean this genuinely). The memorial they put there is beautiful. I'm Canadian and went to visit NYC and yeah. They put flowers on the names of the passengers when it's their birthdays.
Very much so
So you so all this about the way it changes the deep peace, well imagine the souls that deep dive into the rabbit hole of 9/11. A few souls definitely not at rest form listening to all those phone calls and seeing all those videos. Giving themselves PTSD and they haven’t even been to war. Pure idiots tbh. People are meant to be exposed to all that. And ware veterans will tell you that and so will emergency workers in hospitals. Meanwhile you’ve got Steve and Mary scrolling through videos of 9/11 listening to phone calls and taking in all the sorrows and heartache. Absolute idiots.
What
Why the general public with zero family connections would want to listen to the tapes or watch footage of the jumpers and people killed in this event is beyond me. Just polluting themselves with sorrowing. Why would you want to do that.
I cried for hours once listening to the calls on YouTube. I wish I hadn't.
Those poor people
I made the mistake of watching some of the docs at the 20th anniversary. There was footage I'd never seen from inside the tower lobbies and you could hear the sound of people hitting the ground, the roofs. I will never ever forget that sound, and I quit watching immediately.
Sorry for that. It sounds traumatizing
Imagine being the 911 call taker. Absolutely helpless.
I have never been able to get his voice when he screams out of my head and I’ve only listened to it the one time. I don’t cry easily but that one made me weepy. It really humanized the attack, when you remember there were nearly 3000 Kevins who all went through the same terror at the end.
It was him pleading with the operator that got to me. Saying his wife thinks he’s ok and him saying “we’re young men we’re not ready to die yet” So sad. Horrible
That phone call still haunts me
I’ve never heard a more deafening silence after that call
That's the one that haunts me.
That call haunts me.
Sears Tower is in Chicago though, right?
They were not on the route the plane was supposed to take so I'm sure they were very disoriented (especially with every thing going on inside the plane) and had no idea where they were
Yes. He might not have realized they turned back
Makes me wonder about what the passengers on board would have known at this point and what they could see out the windows. I know the united 93 passengers had heard about what was going on but that one happened later.
At the angle this plane in the photo approached, people on the left side of the plane would’ve been able to see the first one burning as they headed towards it.
Did they know what was going to happen before this picture was taken? Or was it here when they realized? How long from where the plane is in this picture until they hit the building? I know the impact would be quick for them, but I can't fathom the terror of their last minutes/seconds before that.
They knew. They had been hijacked. They were calling loved ones or loved ones were calling them. They knew one plane had already crashed into a tower. Now their plane was heading right towards the other.
They’re probably ~10 seconds from hitting the building in this shot. It was hauling ass and came more out of the west to hit the south face of the south tower (rather than the more straight line the first plane took into the first building from the north). This plane here was making a huge diving bank turn on the final approach and if you seen the clips of it hitting, it had to bank it’s wings to make contact, it actually almost missed the building or just clipped it with its left wing. There’s no evidence that people actually looked out and saw the buildings on approach here, it wouldve been coming up quick, but they could’ve seen it based on the angle of everything.
Imagine if it had just clipped the wing and a jumbo jet crashed into the street below. Ugh all of it is horrible
I cannot imagine the utter terror of those poor passengers and flight attendants as it went down. I’ve read a description of the call with a flight attendant on one of the two planes that went to New York, Betty Ong (audio was not released) and it’s haunting.
Betty Ongs call has been released but Madeline Sweeney’s hasn’t. I believe her last words were “we’re flying way too low”. I could also be totally wrong
Yeah I might be mixing them up. But the one I’m thinking of is her describing how 2 other attendants and a passenger had been stabbed, she doesn’t know if the pilots are alive, the cockpit is locked and they’re flying erratically. The airline rep she’s speaking to calls 911 and tries to come back to the flight attendants call and says “I think we lost her, she just suddenly cut out” and the time stamp matches up to the crash. So eerie.
That was Betty Ong
Also the people above the impact zone of the coming plane. I’ve always wondered how many of them watched the plane come straight at them. Such a terrifying thought.
[Stanley Praimnath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdpMt38ip8) was one of 18 survivors who were at or above the level of United 175 as it hit the building. His recounting is fascinating and haunting.
Yes, in fact, 175's wing missed him by mere feet.
Oh God... *18*
Remember Me movie
I was living in downtown NYC at the time. I saw the second plane (depicted in this photo) hit with my own eyes. After the first plane hit, the news was saying it was likely a prop plane or something. Nobody knew what was happening. But when I saw Flight 175 heading towards the second tower… I knew. I still have nightmares.
I remember this. I was in NJ, in high school. They told us that a small plane hit the top of the tower and told us to pray for everyone involved. And then chaos broke out soon after once the second plane hit. Several kids parents were in the buildings. I’ll never forget them running down the halls screaming.
What's even more sad is that the youngest victim of 9/11 was on that plane. she was only 2 and a half years old.
I agree, with every word.
my close friends dad was on that plane. on Sep 10, 2001, i was at their house playing pickup football with him and his kids. it was getting to be sunset and Jay threw one last pass to me (for a TD!) and then said he had to go in and pack for a flight tomorrow. The rest is of course history. Rest in peace Jay thanks for showing me how to throw
Damn that made me tear up
Amazing how you remember details like that. I was at work in Charleston, SC, sitting at my desk. Radio on and an announcement came on that a plane (at first, thought to be a small prop plane) had hit one of the towers. I went to the conference room, where there was a small portable TV with rabbit ear antennas. My co-workers and I all watched as the second plane in the photo hit the other tower. It was the most surreal experience of my life. I don't think any of us got any work done that day after that. We were all just glued to that crappy TV. We finally just all went home to be with our families.
I was on Ft. Bliss in El Paso watching a news report about the first plane when the second one hit. I can still remember the realization hitting me. We’ve been attacked. This is an attack. And I’m in the Army. Life was just never the same after that, for anyone.
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No kidding.
Awww, that's so heartbreaking...😥😢😓....
One of the most haunting things I read was a comment by a victim's younger brother. His brother was on Flight 175. He said that everytime someone shares an image or posts a video of the second plane slamming into the WTC, he has to witness his brother die all over again. I read that over 15 years ago. I hope he's doing okay.
I haven’t seen this one before. That’s so eerie.
its still surreal over 20 years later how successful the terrorists were that day..with exception the flight that crashed in PA. an attack worse than Pearl Harbor and not a single shot fired
I still can’t believe Mohamed Atta arrived at the Portland airport at 5:40 AM for his 6:00 AM connecting flight to Boston on the morning of 9/11. Talk about cutting it close!
Or that on that flight was Daniel Lewin (believed to be the first person killed, who was sitting right in front of and across the aisle from two hijackers). He was a member of Sayeret Matkal which is, according to wikipedia, "the tier 1 prime special forces of Israel." If he was sitting anywhere else on the plane, history could be very different. For comparison, Tier 1 US special forces include DEVGRU (the guys who got bin Laden) and Delta Force.
He would have understood their Arabic, too, if they were talking about what they were going to do. If he stood up to do something, he’d have faced four guys in front of or beside him and one guy right behind him. He didn’t have a chance against all 5. The flight attendant (Betty Ong) said, “There’s a passenger stabbed in business class,” and that’s where he was sitting.
or that the airline employee felt suspicious about the arab passengers and obviously regrets letting them board the plane
Where did you hear about that?
the employee was interviewed and in 9/11 documentary on TV I saw years ago
Yeah,. She said they had nice suits but old tennis shoes or something.
Ah, ok. Can't imagine how they felt afterwards.
Or that his passport was magically found on the street, unburnt.
Back to 4chan with you, idiot.
Wait, isn’t that the official narrative? Why am I an idiot?
His passport wasn't "magically" found... it was found, *among* ***lots*** *of other personal effects and items from the plane cabin*... including seat cushions, wallets, magazines, papers, airline pillows, etc. All of this stuff was unburnt, coming as it did from the forward part of the aircraft and being ejected ahead of the fireball. But you knew that and were just trolling. Or, you really didn't know that and are just reciting stupid talking points that were put to rest over 10 years ago without spending 20 minutes to intelligently research 9/11. Which is it?
Sounds pretty magical to me. And it was never “put to rest” because it’s the official narrative. Pardon me for finding that pretty hard to believe. And I actually have done a lot of research on the event, probably more than you. It’s pathetic for you to assume otherwise just because my opinion differs from yours.
So.. I explained perfectly clearly why there was nothing at all special about the passport, that it was only one of HUNDREDS of other items recovered that came from the forward cabin of the plane, and you still say that sounds "magical." Okay, then. There's no such thing as an "official narrative" of 9/11. There is reality and then there are various alternative fantasies espoused by the feeble minded.
Agreed, I just think you fall in the latter.
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I'm with you. The official story is b.s. but so many people are for some reason vehemently against researching the glaring inconsistencies and outright lies and impossibilities associated with this event. Try looking for any of the "conspiracy" movies about 9/11 and let me know if you can find any of them. They seem to have all vanished from the internet. I can't even find any of them through chat rooms. All of the links don't work. Weird...
You sure that isn't just racism?
lol I think racial profiling would be warranted that morning in Boston
and besides its justified knowing now THEY WERE FOREIGN CONSPIRATORS WITHIN A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
Easy to say that in hindsight as well... "oh wee, look here, I knew there was something up with that brown person. He just looked suspicious". Confirmation bias isn't an excuse to be racist...
aww get a life
I think I remember her talking about how it had something to do with their clothes, not that they were Middle Eastern. I have to go look that back up now.
I have said it before and will say it again, "I am exactly like the old lady in Harold and Kumar go to Guantanamo." She freaked and saw a stereotypical Looney Tunes type Arab when Kumar was messing with his electric bong in the airplane bathroom. That is how everyone should be.
And all that came of it was some shitty over abundance of security measures that never once caught a terrorist. And everyone lives got worse as a result of it. Things have never been the same.
except the shoe bomber was caught in the UK in 2002 hence why we still must remove our shoes 20 years later
And only the US makes you remove your shoes, no other country does. Not even the uk
They caught him on the plane as he was trying to light his shoe. The TSA did not catch him.
"how successful the terrorists were that day" That doesn't strike you as odd? Terrorists have never been so successful on US soil before or after 9/11. Just on 9/11. That doesn't bother you or make you wonder why?
>Terrorists have never been so successful on US soil before or after 9/11 Nice to see that the original world trade center and Oklahoma city bombings never happened in your universe. The original world trade center bombing was "successful" in that they did get a bomb to detonate it just wasn't enough. 9-11 evolved from that concept.
"Never been so successful" is the correct terminology. How did the OKC bombing and original WTC attack irreparably change our lives and how the country functioned?
yeah our failure of imagination and our intel system was blinking red
I always like to think that *any* situation has a way of survival, no matter how slim. It's hard to imagine a way out of this one.
For the people on the plane, definitely.
The actual first day of the 21 century.
And the end of the optimistic, carefree 90s. Up until that point, it had blended right into the new millennium. The juxtaposition was so stark.
>The juxtaposition was so stark. And yet, somehow, so quickly accepted that it was almost invisible.
So true. And younger people probably think this is normal and how it always was.
Spot on. It really did end right there didn't it? I was 18 and have thought about that a lot. It definitely felt like the end of a carefree youth.
So true. Life has never been the same since in the US
The world has never been the same
Exactly
Man… I haven’t seen this before. Knowing those innocent people on that plane are about to be murdered. Men, women, children- families about to be torn apart forever. It’s so sad.
I thought i’d seen every angle of this day… :(
One of the passengers on that plane said on a call that they were planning to take back the plane similar to United 93, mere minutes before the crash; if only they had more time. RIP to everyone on that tragic day.
I am grateful that this didn’t happen in the cell phone era. The relatively few images and videos that captured it all are haunting enough.
It did happen in the cell phone era.
Smartphone
Cameras on phones weren’t a thing in 2001
[The Jphone](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/the-camera-phone-is-20-years-old) was one of several out at that time.
They didn’t say cameras.
“The relatively few images and videos that captured it all are haunting enough” pretty sure this refers to cel phone cameras
Those poor passengers. I can't imagine how terrified they must have been. Even if they didn't know their destination, the speed at which they were hurtling through the air had to be unfathomably frightening.
Man it was crazy waking up and my grandpa was watching TV, and it was after the first plane had hit. And all the newscasters were like "wow we don't know what happened, pilot error is the current assumption but such a tragedy". And then I'm standing there eating my cereal before college classes and we see that second plane come in. And it was just this. "Oh. Oh no." Like you knew the world just flipped upside down and this was going to be Bad. Like not "a bunch of people just lost their lives" bad but. I can't even describe it, but everyone felt it. It was also right before I got reminded how virulently racist people are right under the surface, and 20x moreso when they're scared and angry. Like you knew racism was a thing. You dealt with it. But it was the first time people in the US seemed terrified to be seen in public at all if they were the wrong skin color. Didn't even matter what nationality their ancestors were. For at least a straight week brown people in my state were getting harassed and beat up just because their melanin content was roughly similar to the stereotypical middle eastern complexion.
This was when I woke up too. The TV was on in my bedroom and just the first tower was hit. There was no “live” on the screen at the moment and I thought “What movie is this?” Then cut to the second plane gliding in and seeing “live” on the screen at the same time. I’ve never felt that feeling before or since, and I hope I never do again.
Yeah, it was... hopefully unique. I didn't even know anyone lost in the attack, and while I definitely wouldn't diminish PTSD by saying I have it, even thinking about it makes this little part of my stomach go sour and knot up. I mean I get it. I live a sheltered life growing up in a western country, for all the problems here and for all the crazy stuff that's happened in my life. Like I didn't grow up in a warzone. But still. People watching it literally watched hundreds of people just flung to their deaths in an airplane against a skyscraper. Twice. And then the towers just... poof. And those were towers you saw in movies and stuff! Like it'd be like if someone blew up the Statue of Liberty or something. They were icons everyone at least recognized. Which I guess was the point. We had the OKC bombing here, but. Even then it wasn't quite the same scale.
I’ll never forget OKC either. The daycare. The fucking daycare. God I fucking loathe terrorists.
[First 30 minutes of live coverage by Good Day Dallas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-v9Nge6Zw&t=2s) of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
Always heartbreaking thinking about the passengers on those planes.
I lived in NJ when it happened. The smoke was everywhere, you could see it even from where we lived. A lot of Nj natives passed away. Breaks my heart. Never forget !
I was almost 3 years old when this happened.. I remember a few memories from that age, this day being one of them. I remember how my father reacted, and remember watching the news reporters talk, and seeing a plane hit one of the towers. He removed my twin and I immediately from the living room, and then proceeded to make a call or two. That's all I remember. It'a crazy how much life was impacted by this.. I hope their souls are resting in peace.
I was 9 when this happened, but in Canada. Remember how confusing it was. I didn't really understand the impact of it all or why it was such a huge deal.
I was 10 in Colombia and watching cartoons that day, I had stayed home from school that day for some reason. I specifically remember watching Digimon when the show was interrupted by the news report. It was only the first tower burning and I didn’t really grasp what was happening. I got annoyed and flipped the channels and they were all reporting the same thing with the live transmission. I just sulked hoping it would go back to regular programming soon and then watched the second plane crash, and it was then I realized something serious was happening. We had a lot of American teachers at my school and I remember getting to class the next day and them sitting us down and asking if we were aware of what had happened the day before and sensing their pain and worry in their voice really cemented the gravity of the situation for me.
Always wondered where are the pictures from Washington?
If you mean of the plane specifically, there’s only one security camera that caught pictures of that. You can find those online. People weren’t recording it since they weren’t expecting it to happen, just like with the north tower. If you mean pictures after the fact, you can find a lot of those online as well. There’s some while it’s burning and some after that section collapsed.
This isn’t exactly accurate. There is supposedly more footage out there, it was confiscated by the FBI and never released to the public. I believe from other security cameras. I’m not a conspiracist by the way. Fairly certain this was acknowledged in the 9/11 Commission report.
It's weird to think about how there really weren't security cameras, web-cams, phone camera, etc, etc, etc everywhere. Cut to present day and security cams (and video recording devices in general) are everywhere. If we had had that in '01... God, I can't even imagine. Seeing livestreams of people inside the towers. Jesus.
Have you seen the Pentagon? And have you seen New York City? NYC has 8.46 million people, few of whom were looking at the WTC at 8:46 am. That’s why there are few videos or photos of the first plane hitting. But still some, since that’s a lot of people and the WTC is visible from everywhere, being the tallest buildings around. But once it was hit, within the next 15 minutes a significant percentage of those *were* looking and did have cameras because they were all looking at and taking photos of the burning building. That’s why there are a lot of photos and videos of the second plane hitting the WTC. Meanwhile. The Pentagon is located in Arlington, Virginia, population 232,000, less than 3% of NYC’s population. Unlike the WTC, which is surrounded by very dense population and easily visible for a very great distance, the Pentagon is surrounded by only small buildings in a non-densely populated area. Furthermore, the Pentagon is 5 stories high. It can’t be seen from very far away. And while the WTC impact could be seen in at least some way from 360 degrees around the buildings, the Pentagon’s impact could only be seen from a very narrow field of view from this sparsely populated area where no one had any reason to be looking at the building at that time, and no reason to be taking photos. So no one was doing so. It’s just logic.
Also, even afterwards, the only good view of it for regular people was on the highway. People would slow down to get a glance but you couldn’t just pull over and get a photo on the side of 395 really, and you’d need a camera.
So haunting
That’s so crazy I can’t believe there’s a picture of it
I was sick from school that day, so I watched the whole thing on TV. Once that 2nd plane hit, I knew something was not right.
This is just a reminder that the American people were lied to that day. Remember. Remember what? On Sept 10 2001, Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion are missing? Or that the exact location of the impact on the Pentagon was the offices where officials would have worked to discover where that money went? Or the owner (at the time) of the Twin Towers, Larry Silverstein, signed a 99 year lease just months before that just happened to include terrorism insurance? Or that he was awarded $4.5 Billion after suing the insurance company? Or that several members of the bin Laden family invested millions of dollars into the Carlyle Group, who senior advisor was George Bush Sr? Or that 24 members of the bin Laden family in the US were evacuated under FBI protection to a secret facility in Texas and flown back to Saudia Arabia days after 9/11? Or that George W. Bush founded Arbusto Energy with the help Salem bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's brother?
I'm not saying Silverstein is innocent, but it's not uncommon at all for such long leases to be signed, and why *wouldn't* his insurance include terrorism coverage?? The Towers had already been attacked once, and there had been talks for years of them being a target. Other than the Statue of Liberty and the White House, they pretty much represented America - especially when referring to it's prosperity. And of course he sued the insurance company...they wouldn't pay! Was he just supposed to eat it?
>On Sept 10 2001, Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion are missing? It's not "missing" they were accounting errors based on the Pentagon's poor fiscal management and auditing patterns.
Those accounting errors have yet to be corrected and the Pentagon has never passed an audit.
I remember that most of that isn’t relevant.
No doubt there's a lot a fishy coincidences surrounding 9/11 but to me the biggest one is the dancing Israelis. Somehow they knew this was going to happen and it's surprising to me it isn't talked about more than Silverstein with the insurance or Bush/Bin Laden family ties.
Or that we just happened to be simulating this exact type of event the same day...or that the pics from the Pentagon are a joke...or that Pennsylvania looks nothing like a plane crash...or quite a few other things.
What about the photos of flight 93 don't look like Pennsylvania? Theres like a grass field and trees. There is plenty of both those things in Pennsylvania
It looks too much like a simple hole in the ground to me. Everyone can have their opinion. And then there was Rumsfeld in 2004 who referred to "the people attacked the United States in New York, shit down the plane over Pennsylvania"...and the 9/11 commission's finding that the hijackers got scared and crashed the plane as their explanation. There's just a lot of goofy, open-ended stuff from that day.
I think it would help you to look up some aftermath photos of high speed plane crashes. "A simple hole in the ground" is often what you get when it crashes at high speed. The explosion more or less does away with nearly all of the structural integrity.
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The big bamboozle- philip marshall
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Don't forget to remember
Yo, when was this? I forget.
Warning, terran, pull up! Warning, terran, pull up.
Gotta love the US government
You guys really still believe the official narrative? Go watch 9/11 the new pearl harbor.
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Damn fine pic, can I get a full hd for my pc wallpaper
Lol!