It had to be especially brutal for those on floors 92-110 in the north tower being stuck in those conditions for nearly 2 hours and possibly seeing the south tower collapse knowing they'd inevitably be next.
One guy climbed down a broken window from the 92nd floor to a window on the 91st floor. There was an open window on the 91st floor which was directly left of him but unfortunately he didn't know that. He tried kicking the window in he was at but was unable to break it and he lost his grip and fell all the way down from the 91st floor. He would have made it had he of been at one window left because I think there was 1 stairwell left on 91 and I believe everybody on that floor made it out.
Yes there were people in security telling the workers to go back to work. Rick knew after the 1993 attack, they'd be back to try again and he was prepared. He died doing what he was meant to do and thousands who consider him their angel @@edreynolds8721
I remember listening to a 911 call and it was after the first building was hit but before the second was hit. A woman in the 2nd building on one of the top floors was reporting the loud blast and the smoke and the 911 operator was telling her that other people have called for the same reason and there are first responders on the way. The woman in the tower asked if they should make their way to the ground floor and the 911 operator responded with a firm NO and to just remain calm and that no one in her building is in any danger. Boy was she wrong! Minutes later the second building was hit. I understand that the emergency call center is trained to calm people down and to avoid any kind of mass panic but damn, that woman’s life would have been saved (along with many others, I’m sure) if the folks in that 2nd building had begun to clear out of there and make their way down to the ground as soon as the first plane hit. At the time though, they didn’t know it was a plane and then when they did find that out they thought it was a private plane accident, a fluke. No one could have ever imagined it was a commercial plane and was done on purpose! 😢😥😞
@@edreynolds8721 right, you basically reiterated what I already said. No one knew what was happening, hence bad advice to stay put. If my memory serves me correctly, no one above the impact site in the 2nd tower survived which is why I said had they made their way to ground level AS SOON AS THE FIRST PLANE HIT, they may have had a fighting chance at survival. Of course this is all speculation and I know that in that moment there was a lot of confusion.
Those firefighters deserve a lot of admiration for knowing their fate but also knowing it was their duty to rescue as many people out of the building. Chief Peter Hayden said during an interview that every firefighter caried out the order, but he also saw groups of firefighters wishing each other luck indicating they knew their fate. Other firefighters like Orio Palmer, the only firefighter to reach the highest floor and the impact zone were probably unphased and knew it was his duty to get as many people out of the building.
I had friends who escaped the South Tower. When the first plane hit the North Tower, Herman Sandler, President of Sandler O'Neill on the 104th floor of the South Tower, saw the plane go in. He immediately went to the transaction floor and told the employees there that it was terrorism and they could leave immediately if they wanted. Of course, the employees were aware of the South tower collision but Sandler had actually watched the plane impact. Many of the employees did leave by one of the stairwells. They were on approximately the 55th floor when the second plane hit their building. Sandler O'Neill lost about half their employees but Herman Sandler's quick thinking probably saved many of those who survived.
Yes. We lost a friend of the family in the south tower -on the 84 floor because they were being told to stay put. He called his wife and said not to worry-that they were fine. 💔
I can't get those people hanging out the windows out of my head, part of me thinks they're still up there Over 20 years later things still haven't fully sunken in
Heeeey something similar happens to me. Whenever I see a picture or video of the Towers on a normal day before the tragedy, I can only see the smoke, the people on the windows fighting to breathe, the next plane coming to hit the other tower, I can only see tragedy
and the ppl who jumped because they couldn't stand the heat/smoke any longer and they hit the ground in a violent "bang" that produced a pink mist. sorry but that's true
I cannot get the images out of my mind ever. I saw a slide show at my fire station from friends who were on Texas Task Force 1 who went there to help. I saw a zoomed in picture of people at the window trying to breathe. I saw a young lady that looked just like my little sister in one of the windows. 😢
I still cry. Nobody expects to know when their final moment is.. I was up in those buildings when I was a teenager we got to go on to the top observatory.. I am now 60 years old and I still get sick to my stomach... These poor people that jumped my heart is just broken.
If I had been working in either tower and someone said to me to go back to my desk this is my take on that!!!! Once one tower was struck by the jet liner and I was in the other tower and some stupid supervisor say "oh, you are fine come back and sit down at your desk" I would've gotten my coat, purse, and my keys and either rode down the elevator or gone down the stairs and gotten the hell out of there - no job is worth dying for!!!!!
@@stephenhumphrey7935 even if it was an accident instead of an attack (inside job), I would have gone out anyway. The towers were both under danger even after the first attack, if one tower falls sideways on the other, then what?
I worked for American Express in Ft. Lauderdale during 9/11. Our headquarters was across the street from the WTC in the WFC. Our building was out of commission for a year. And one of our NY employees was struck by a plane wheel when walking to work. She was injured pretty badly and I think 60 Minutes did a segment on her.
I saw her on a video. Her name is Debra. The blade from the engine severed half her backside and her heel had to be amputated. She stayed in hospital the longest of any survivor I think. All in all, lucky it didnt sever her face/ head. Her mother was by her side in the video. So touching the amount of love she has for her daughter. Hope your thriving Debra wherever you are❤
9/11 I wasn't having the TV on and about maybe 11:00 I called American Express in New York to pay my bill and the recording said we are unable to process this at this time after that I went to my boyfriend's house and he was watching the television I'm assuming it was around 11:00 or 12:00 and he told me what happened and I looked at the screen and all it was was at the end after all of it and it was it was all the smoke all covering Manhattan and I fell to my knees on the sofa. I'm from the Buffalo area and I lived in Lodi New Jersey outside of New York City in 81 and had been in and out of the World Trade Centers and photograph them it was a horrible time it was a horrible thing to have to hear
@@scottfreckle237 are you actually serious? You do realize in 01 the internet was total ass right? uploading from a cell phone, was NOT a thing. The people who had cameras were journalists and people who enjoyed tech, and families who had their giant cameras on them to film their families in the city. You HAVE to be gen z because genz is the generation that didn't know life before the insanity the internet is now and is totally ignorant to how things were before it.
Stanley Praimnath who was in the impact zone when the second plane hit noted that he saw a wing lodged in his office door about 20 feet from him after the plane went in. Flames then started to engulf the wing. There is an amateur video on YT where you can hear cracking from within the south tower. The amateur cameraman wanted to leave his apartment because he could hear the creaking. Even while the south tower was being evacuated, a maintenance man said in an interview that he looked out a window as he descended the stairs and said the north tower was already leaning above impact. I forgot where I heard this but there was an account that after one of the planes went in, it sounded like heavy machinery was being moved above; obviously the sound of beams falling, or bending, or floors collapsing.
The structures compromised NOTHING, as well told by a main engeneer years before, because the twins was like a web spider of STEEL colums, no problem if yor cut several colums of one side, you have the other three sides and most of the core colums to maintain the structure PERFECTLY WELL, the official story is a fairtale "as always", (the biggest ever told) @@mssha1980
I cant imagine the people left in north tower after the south tower collapsed... they knew their fate. The south tower collapse was no secret to the people left in north.
It would be interesting to see if anyone from that helicopter that predicted the north tower collapse could be found and interviewed about what they saw. Those floor trusses giving way were the real issue with the floors pancaking like they did. Great video as always.
According to the Nist Report at 10.21 the aviation unit reported that the the North tower is leaning southwest and appears to be buckling in the southwest corner. the photo taken around that time shows a massive fire engulfing that section of the building and the perimeter columns themselves bending inwards
I watched an interview with retired FDNY firefighter Tim Brown. In it he said Rescue 1’s commanding officer had put out a mayday that they had become trapped in a localised collapse above the 80th floor. With all the confusion and problems with the radio’s I wonder if this information ever made it down to the chief’s at the command posts.
@@Lilgoth89the collapse did actually intiate at that southwest corner you can see in a few angles. The corner buckles, and over a few seconds it spreads to the entire floor and then the entire impact zone falls with it. It’s hard to see because in most angles it’s obscured by the dust of the south tower.
There is video recorded right before the collapse A man hangs from one of the windows, speaking into a grey handheld camera for a few moments, then he passes the camera to the man hanging in the window right next to him. The man proceeds to direct the camera towards himself and begins speaking. These people had to have known at some point that all was lost. Sadly no one would be coming for them. Especially after the south tower collapse. I believe these men were recording final messages to their family and friends. Sadly this camera was never found. Or was it? The FBI has video of the disaster that they cannot release due reasons to "evidence in an ongoing investigation or trial" I could imagine they have video from the inside. Images even (confirmed). but some of this material is withheld from release due to family's request. Maybe we will be able to see such things in the next 30-50 years? Who knows. Those poor people will remain on my mind and in my heart until the day I die.
Interesting. Do you know the name of the video? I know I saw a video (probably the WTC enhanced videos channel) where you can still see someone waving a white object minutes before WTC1 collapsed. As for the camera - it would have been made of mostly plastic and it would have been a tape, which would have melted. No one had hard drive cameras back then.
I also found a video of a woman who was on one of the 80-something floors who saw a helicopter trying to see if they could reach them, and then they backed off. This woman was later rescued by Rick Rescorla and she was able to get down the stairs before the collapse. I think it may have been the National Geographic special that came out last year.
i know the two guys your talking about i seen the video you can clearly see him holding something. i thought it was a phone but , i know in the video you can see something on the screen of what ever he is holding and it does seem like he was speaking and recording what he was seeing below him trying to maybe show his friends and family what he was experiencing im gonna go look and see which video it is in the enhanced WTC VIDS
@@CritterHouseUSA If you dont find it before i do, I promise i will go looking for it in my history soon. Its on one of the "Person's name" videos. About 8 mins into said 25-40 minute recording. I will go looking for it soon, I actually stumbled onto it the other day in my travels across platforms. Will have to remember how or where i found it.
@@raquelarchuleta6430 Im having a hard time finding it again. And yes It is in enhanced wtc video somewhere. It is a 30+ minute video somewhere in a closeup of towers around the 8-13 minute mark of said video. The video is infamously refered to by "someones last name, film" much like, "The Zapruder Film". Im wanting to say it was by the same person who filmed the jumpers crashing down into the stage below. Same video just a different time therein obviously. If you can find it that would be good. Im trying on and off today but a lot to dig through. Not BSing you though, this video is real.
Have you ever been to the 9/11 museum? There are actually some parts of the windows of the planes that survived. It was really weird to look through the window of one of the planes that hit the towers.
The second plane would've seen it coming miles away. Absolutely horrifying. The North Tower already on fire and smoking would've been a beacon for the second plane.
@@StepUpMedia039you would think the passengers would be in complete spazz mode after they saw what they were approaching and have decided to rush the cockpit like the flight 93 passengers did.
A FINE comment on this TRAGIC attack. RIP to those who died and may their relatives be able to carry on their lives without the agony of loss as time passes.
I visited ground zero while in New York last week, it was absolutely surreal to be there and to visit the museum also, I saw quite a few women's names then beside their names said "with unborn child". So sad to read. Shame on the person or people who told workers it was safe to go back to their desks. RIP to all the victims and to the firefighters and ambulance workers who lost their lives, the NYFD faced thee impossible that day.
I've always wondered how many people just reached the bottom floor or were just walking out of the south and north towers, only to have the collapse kill them. It must have been one of the worst feelings. I assume it was in the hundreds.
There was a guy that worked in the building as some kind of WTC building inspector (I don't remember exactly, as it's been over ten years since I read the book). He got down the stairs and out of the building, but he went back up to help with the rescue efforts and was in there when it collapsed.
Everyone in the lower floors who started down the stairs within twenty minutes of the impact reached safety. The main flood of evacuations was done before the collapses of the towers. Almost all of the people above the zones of impact perished. Only a handful got past the smoke, fire and debris. Between the two buildings, there was only one intact stairwell down past the damage. Aside from the firefighters and other first responders there were maybe two to three dozen people still trying to get mobility impaired people down those endless steps to escape.
your Amazingggggg..... keep these videos coming. I have a million questions with ALL aspects regarding everything that day...so again thank you for doing what you do!
These Twin Towers vids are my favourite of your content, I'm not into stadiums (but don't let that put you off I'm just one viewer), every time you post I'm like please be a Twin Towers vid they are so interesting and how you are trying really hard to make original content about such widely covered event; well done!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the accounts of Frank DeMartini. He was the Construction Manager at the World Trade Center, and was responsible for the evacuations of many floors close to the impact site in the North Tower. He reported via radio channel B when the express elevators were in danger of collapse, and it's believed he saw something at the same time that indicated a possible impending collapse. He and his colleague Pablo Ortiz lost their lives that day.
You should do a video of skyscrapers that are very similar in design to the World Trade Center. For example, the Bank of Oklahoma Tower and AON tower were both designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the original designer for the World Trade Center. Both these buildings closely resemble the South Tower, its awesome
@@user-id2mx9xs9s i hope they won't change the original design but it seems like it's unavoidable. it's a wonderful tower and very dystopian looking. there are plans to change the design but i don't like it at all. the tower stands alone amongst normal 8 story buildings and i luv the dark brown steel
About half way through footage of the ABC broadcast, you can see a camera angle of the edge of the south tower. It shows sparking, as if someone is using a blow torch. Then the metal starts liquefying and starts to run from where it originates. When I saw that, I knew it was just a matter of time. Shortly after, within a few minutes, the collapse begins. Anytime i see this coverage, I still find it shocking. I recall Peter Jennings being told the building had just collapsed and he couldn’t grasp what just happened. He kept saying “the top of the building fell?”. The correspondent keeps telling him the entire building was gone. Jennings keeps asking “are you sure?”. The whole event is still hard to believe.
I, too, was in utter disbelief for quite a while as I watched from my TV set in Westchester County. Days later, I still could not grasp that all this happened.
I think you are doing a great service. There are still people who didn’t believe it occurred or people who say it was an inside job, I really appreciate you doing this despite the demonetization because however tragic details of the structure and physics of the collapse can be used for good reasons as well.
There’s a video of a 9/11 survivor talking to a class of high schoolers, where he says that he was in the South Tower when the first plane hit, at one point looked out a window, and saw pieces of the airplane still in the North Tower.
In one of the documentaries, one of the people who had a direct view with the North Tower who was at like floor 94 on the South Tower said there was a HUGE piece of fuselage in the building. He kept saying, how the hell is a plane in the building?
This guy is very knowledgeable about 9/11, through watching his videos im learning a lot about what happened on that tragic day, and how the plane's impact affected the structures of the twin towers as im interested in Physics myself.
Just fyi I believe others have mentioned it but the bulk of the north tower's lobby windows were already blown out from the first impact. There's video of the firefighters just walking right through them on arrival and Chief Pfeifer mentions it upon rolling up to the front door. Awesome channel 👏
Correct, but not from impact. Jet fuel ran the elevator shafts to floor. A flash explosion blew out the windows. Many victims were scene exiting the elevator burnt. Black soot was also visible.
I’m pretty sure there’s some footage of Tower Two falling out there where, just before it starts collapsing, you can see the external cladding bending inwards before snapping.
I wonder if there were pockets in the North Tower above the impact zone that were somehow shielded from the smoke and people stayed alive and unharmed until collapse.
While 911 calls from people trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower continued right until the collapse the number had greatly diminished in the last 15 or 20 minutes, so most of the people were probably dead by then.
There definitely were pockets above the impact zone where people survived until the collapse. However, I doubt any were smoke or heat free. Wherever survivors held on by that point, you can be assured they were doing so in miserable, barely survivable conditions. Virtually nothing pleasant was going on up there by then!
I love your videos, without a question of a doubt you love Alternate History especially 9/11 the Twin Towers. I k ow you’ve done one what if the Towers had survived, there’s several more images out there showing the towers surviving, can you show the Plaza being turned into a memorial and the towers being close to the public permanently, also how the fires would eventually go off on their own. Thank you
Here's a Video Idea Maybe you could make a video talking about those people who survived the collapse of the towers, just a idea that came into my mind Or maybe talk about who where the 18 people that escaped from above the impact zone of the south tower
There is the story of the guy whose was located in the rubble months after the towers collapsed, who was found with an intact disposable camera in his pocket. It was mostly photos from the wedding he had attended the weekend prior to 9/11, but reportedly about HALF the roll contained photos taken INSIDE the tower after the impact. His family refused to release any of the photos.
@@krisstopher8259 No I watched a show where they interviewed the people that found the camera and the family who denied access. They said nobody should ever see the photos.
The airplane wheels were still stowed for flight; they didn't plan on landing. I doubt any of the tires would have been anywhere closeby for people in the building to see. Stairways to the roof would likely have been locked, especially on the North tower. That's where the TV antennas were, thus would have been a highly restricted area given the proximity to the RF being generated up there. Another good video with good thoughts. Thanks, again!
*Yeah a lady walking a couple of blocks away from the towers was struck by the landing gear and it peeled her skin off from her neck, down her back, down to her legs. She was severely injured and is lucky to be alive.💯*
@@smokeyp7565It might have been the Window cleaner, he was popular with people that worked there and unfortunately he may have been working that day and the scaffolding got knocked off the building. His name was Roko Camaj and he was in the South Tower on the top floor. People have already speculated if the scaffolding was still up there could he have lowered himself down even 50 floors to where he or a few people could be rescued. People have analyzed everything to do with that day like maybe if someone could have picked the lock to the roof. Edit: It wasn't the window cleaner.
Speaking of controlled demolitions, a lot of people claim that it was an inside job because there were detonations going off as the buildings came down, but those were supposed to happen, every building over a certain height must have explosives added to automatically go off if the building's structure is compromised so they fall straight down instead of sideways. They don't tell the general public about that because people might be scared of going into skyscrapers knowing they were surrounded by high explosives.
@@mikebyrd8278 Y'know, it's getting really f**king annoying when people think calling something "BS" is a good enough argument to claim a victory. It's a fact, you can research it if you like but if you were actually interested in the facts you would have done it already. If you're going to call someone a liar, provide the evidence or STFU.
It sure looked like a controlled demolition to me. Building 7 collapsed in the same manner. I was 21 on 9-11-01. I've always believed it was an inside job. Funny how these buildings couldn't handle the impact, but they found Atta's passport just lying around at the scene. The US government has committed a lot of false flags on its own citizens. This one is likely one of them.
As for the explosions seen as the towers were collapsing - remember these towers were not just tall but wide. Each floor was about one acre in area (208ft by 208ft or 43560 sq ft) with 12ft slab to slab between each floor. When the floors began pancaking down at free fall speed it looked to be falling about 10 floors per second at the minimum. Over 500,000 cubic feet of air compressed in less than 0.1 seconds would act like a secondary explosion - and that was for every floor below the impact zone.
Can your math explain why ninety percent of the bodies were not found in the debris ? Or why ninety percent of the skyscrapers were also MIA on 9/11? 🪴
This is not sarcasm. I appreciate you explaining that in a manner that didn't leave me a convulsing, sobbing mess. I remember 9/11 and part of me wants to know the whole truth but what the documentaries do to me emotionally is usually more than I can take, so thank you.
Realize this. If there is any video allowed on RU-vid that talks about this event it's most likely bullshit because they've done a damn good job of scrubbing everything else off the internet. They don't want us questioning this event...
I know you get requests about 9/11. I was just curious but would you or are you planning a video about American Airlines Flight 77: the flight that hit the Pentagon
I am happy you talk about these people, they went through the nightmare and some don't acknowledge it. Btw, we speculate, but nowadays people would be online, on IG, doing lives sending for help... Absolutely heartbreaking...
given how horrifiying it was to see south tower collapse from the streets,,,just think of being trapped above the impact of north tower and looking out window at the south tower collapsing!!
The south facing side of the North Tower had almost no people seen in the windows due to extreme damage and smoke on that side of the building. There were a few on the east face which could have an angled view of the South Tower but most of them perished before the collapse. The majority of upper floor north tower post-impact survivors were seen on the north and west faces (mostly north west corner which had the least amount of smoke due to wind direction). It's probably more accurate to presume they didnt directly see the south tower fall, rather they certainly heard & felt it then saw the dust clouds that began rolling onto the streets below them. Plus, calls to loved ones outside who fed them the info that the south tower fell got back to them. So yes, they definitely knew the south tower had fallen though they likely were unable to actually witness it cos they were on the opposite facing side. One thing is certain, they almost all instinctively knew their tower would soon be next, hence the wave of jumpers that sadly followed very quickly after Tower 2 fell.
I was already a year old during 9/11, but only found out about it on a news rerun when I was 3. I thought it was live footage and kept asking my mom if the woman on the phone screaming that the floor was "hot" and the people hanging on the windows were going to be saved. I don't remember if I saw footage of the towers collapsing back then, but the people and those brief glimpses of the jumpers really stuck with me. I didn't have a full understanding of death yet but I knew what I was seeing was especially horrific. Years later it all came back and knowing what happened to all those firefighters and first responders just makes it more heartbeaking.
Strangest thing that day was when the buildings fell the elevator shafts stayed somehow suspended for a few seconds before falling i’ll always remember that and how strange it was
If I remember right Stanley Praimnath (the dude who ducked down under his office and narrowly avoided being hit by the 2nd plane), said that there were parts of the plane's fuselage in what used to be his floor.
He is certainly right about the smoke. For that amount to be seen issuing from the building it had to be a sheer hell of intense heat, choking smoke, and zero visability inside! Whether the North Tower had stood or not really made no difference for those trapped above the impact area.
I just watched an interview with a survivor of the south tower... The highest floor in the south tower that was occupied was the 105th. He said when they looked over at North tower they could see actually part of a fuselage of the plane in the big black hole, Amongst people being sucked out the window, Lots of papers and other things flying around as well. I think if you were in either tower above where the planes hit, You would just be inundated with smoke and fire. Just wanted to add this.😊
There was a group of about 6 people stuck in an elevator at the 50th floor in the North Tower on 9/11, one of those people happened to be a janitor by the name of Jan Demczur and with his metal squeegee, he and others chipped through layers of Sheetrock to escape through a bathroom. Jan and the group survived
@@suzyq4982 something like 200 people, estimated, were killed in the elevators. it would have been more but after the south tower collapsed, the power was cut to the north tower, which released the locks that had prevented people from getting out of elevators on the ground floor. A number of people walked out, having no idea what had been going on.
So from South Tower elevator survivors, all mentioned the elevator swayed in motion with with the building itself as the plane impacted. Some who were on the elevators of the 78th floor that did not free fall in the South Tower, mentioned that the plane destroyed 85% of the elevator car, and that they had to pull through the door with strength to get out of the elevator/
@@historyisthebestmyfans2094 is it true there was one express elevator in the South Tower that free-fell from the 78th floor and stopped just inches above the lobby and firemen had to cut through the metal to get everyone out?
the collapse of the south tower saved some lives in the north tower. for example, beyond the evacuation orders, the south tower collapse cut off power to the north tower, resulting in the releasing of the locks holding the elevator doors shut tight. After the south tower collapse, people trapped in the elevators on the ground floor of the north tower were finally able to open them and walk out, not having any idea what had gone on in the previous hour.
I remembered footage of one of the fire & rescue units assembling in the lobby of one of the towers. Suddenly, they started hearing loud thumps. One of them asked if it was debris falling & another firefighter stepped near the entrance, where apparently there were skylights or something similar. He came back, his face had gone gray & he just said "They're jumping". Every time a thump sounded, the entire group, every person, visibly flinched. It was a scene that has haunted me since.
In standley primaths interview in the documentary inside the twin towers the plane hit at an angle and came directly in his office which was i do believe on the 84th floor. He saw the plane's engine stuck in a doorway on his floor. He was the only one on his floor that survived the impact that day.
You briefly touched on communications, so why not a video about the Port Authority Radio Repeater System retrofitted to the towers after the 1993 bombing and the ensuing communications breakdown. What did it look like, how did it work, and why did the FDNY ultimately fail to use this system that could've improved communications and saved some lives on 9/11?
One guy that died was the guy who managed the tv antenna at the top of the 1st building that was hit. He would have had access to the roof. I found out about him from a documentary about all the reporters that day. When the buildings collapsed, the ones in the studio thought the reporters on the scene had all been killed. Everyone lived except for that one guy who worked at the top of the WTC and took care of the antenna. I watched other videos where some people said doors that would have been unlocked/ open were jammed shut from the impact of the plane causing the door frame to shift so maybe that prevented people from getting onto the roof even if they had a key that could unlock the door.
I am glad I found this video. I have always wondered what they saw too. Like, what it looked liked inside. If they saw plane parts or what not. I also wondered how the collapse looked like on the inside above the impact zone.
I thought that the floors collapsing is what initiated the collapse of the building. How would the building have remained standing while floors have already begun to collapse internally? My understanding is that the heat from the fires softened the floor trusses to such a point that they began to sag. The sagging pulled in on the outer columns of the building, which snapped once the tension reached a critical point. This snapping immediately caused the tower to collapse. Could the people inside have been referring to this sagging when they said the floors were collapsing? And how would they be able to tell that the floors beneath them were collapsing in the first place? I'm not trying to be contrairan, I'm genuinely curious.
Good comment. You are correct in your assumptions re the way the building was constructed and the mechanism of collapse in this instance- the beams sagged from the heat and because sagging caused them to not span as far, they slid from their supports. I would be interested to see if you get an answer. (I have watched hours of footage of this being built and supervisors discussing it)
Yeah I agree you have it correct i guess the people inside could feel the floors falling apart and given how they were made perhaps only small parts of the floors were collapsing and they could hear the loudness of it crashing down or could of caused the building to sway more
The floor trusses didn’t pull in the external columns - the steel connections weren’t strong enough. Once the floors collapsed they no longer braced the columns, meaning the columns weren’t from being braced every floor to much further apart. After a number of floors collapsed the columns could no longer support themselves and so buckled (you can see this moment on some of the videos where the facade bends).
Ooh another good one, imma get my popcorn and laze in couch There is so much to learn from the comments, your videos begin a process of learning more broadly than specifics of any 1 video
According to survivor Joe Dittmar, they were able to see plane fuselage in the North Tower from the 90th floor. A fire door that should have closed was propped open so they were able to enter the 90th floor from the stairwell. Some entered the elevator from there, but Joe continued down the stairwell. They made it to the 72nd floor when their Tower was hit by the 2nd plane at floors 77-83. They made it to floor 35 when they encountered FD/PD coming up. They made it down to the basement mall section and one youngster told them to go to the Northeast part of the mall because it was furthest away from the WTC buildings. They made it 8 blocks outside when the South Tower collapsed. When the attack first happened they had no idea what was going on because they were in an internal area with no windows, they got their first knowledge on that 90th floor and when the 2nd plane hit they thought fuselage had blown up from the other Tower, not realizing it was a second plane strike
It must’ve been absolutely awful for the firefighters hearing the people falling to their deaths and then the impact. The World Trade Center movie CLEARLY reenacts that, it it’s SO haunting to hear.
Could you make a video on how high firefighters got in both towers? I know Orio Palmer and his battalion got up to the 78th floor of the south tower shortly before collapse
Orio and Ron Bucca are Heros For The Ages. The video of Orios team entering the building while you can hear the jumpers hitting the ground outside - FREAKING BALLS OF STEEL
there is a woman interviewed who was in the stairwell lower down and she said the concrete walls were cracking and that building was making noises. this interview was on one of the network type shows.
I sometimes wonder what if the South Tower would never have been hit. Plenty of people thought the north tower would survive. Would it have had any chance if it didn't have to deal with the damage from the south tower collapsing? Maybe the collapse of the south tower just pushed the north tower over the edge? If the north tower would still have collapsed but the south tower was never hit, how serious would the damage to the south tower have been and would it have survived in the long term?
They would have done a controlled demolition to it unless the public outcry was big enough where they would’ve rebuilt the north. If the south tower was never hit and stayed up, it would’ve been symbolizing America strength. Ppl probably would’ve wanted the North rebuilt.
@@depressedginger Twin Towers might be coming back. 9/11 museum faced public backlash due to the gift shop, and the museum itself is scheduled to be moved upstate. If the museum does get moved, the footprints would have to be shutdown. Thus the theory, the Towers could get rebuilt.
when the attack happened, I saw people waving white cloths, probably table cloths, out of the top of tower 1, and it never entered my head the buildings would collapse. I assumed they would be a giant scar in the sky for years, the same as happened to a bank building under construction in Philadelphia.
@@terrrell7798The Towers are NOT going to be rebuilt. 1-There's too much available office space in NYC right now. If they add two 110 story buildings, it would cause the commercial RE market to collapse 2-It would be impossible to find financing and insurance for a second Twin Tower project. 3-There's no market for that much office space anymore. When the WTC was built, there was no internet, no computers, no work from home, no Zoom. They were built in an age when people HAD to go into the office. That time is over. Companies just don't need that much office space.
I think the people in that helicopter noticed the top of the north tower tilting, so it was just a matter of time until things fell. It was all the fire and heat that doomed the towers. If there were no fires, I doubt the towers would have fallen, but obviously with all that aviation fuel, there were huge fires. What's with the picture of three main towers?
Prior to September 11 many stated that the Towers were never adequately fire proof. A lot of questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the fireproofing spray applied. At the time of the attack only 30 floors were upgraded to 1.5 inch think spray the rest were only protected by 0.5 inch. Depending on the source and credibility some sections no protection at all.
The lobby Windows of the North Tower were already blown out prior to the South Tower collapsing. The explanation was jet fuel from the plane poured into the elevator shafts, blew the elevator doors open, knocked the marble off the walls and shattered the windows. Your explanation is easier to believe but incorrect.
If you up a couple floors up the impact and look out through the smashed window from your office room you would see black smoke coming up and you can’t see, you can only see buildings in the distance.
Yes. Stairwells are better protected by concrete shafts, not WTC drywall, and the stairwells are distributed more around the floorplan instead of all being in one place.
Wherever I go, wherever I live after this happened, I am not staying on a floor the fire department can't get to in an emergency. I think it's crazy to build these tall buildings and risk everyone's life. Even if you had a heart attack on a regular day, it's going to take a lot longer to get to the top than the bottom. I watched this as it happened. I was on the phone with a friend that morning. She had her tv on and I had mine on and neither of us could believe our eyes! It was the most horrible thing anyone could ever witness. I can't imagine having a loved one working in one of those buildings and watching it as it happened. Those poor families . . . how can they ever get over this? I don't know. I've watched it several times over again just to listen to the reaction of the newscasters and for the most part, I think they were also in shock but calm. They reported what they were seeing and did the best anyone could ever do.
Another thing: It took some very brave firefighters and police to go down to try to save people in those buildings. I don't know if I could have done what I saw those people do. I can't imagine knowing you might be walking into a no win situation. Their families and children who were just coming into the world need to know they were very brave and heros for sure!
Can you do a video if 9/11 was known by US authorities at the last minutes and what they could've done to stop it once it was in motion, like an interception or something of the like. I think the last plane was going to be kamikazed by 2 unarmed F-16s. If the US knew they could have had a bit of time to arm them.
This much hard to say for sure. Anyone that may believe it I ask you wheres the proof (that they knew that it would happen that day before it did. and where)? but it is confirmed information that the Bush administration was warned by CIA spies that terrorists planned to do this with airline flights up to almost a year before it happened. Official word is they were told about plans, they just didnt know the where or the who.
I often wondered this but tbh from the interception perspective it was a catch 22… those airliners were only ever going to be brought down in neighbourhoods, or reach their targets. Trade a certainty (bring a plane down over buildings) over an uncertainty (what are these planes potentially going to do?)
I believe I heard somewhere a story from somebody who was the same height in the south tower as the impact zone for the north tower. He said he could look over and see the plane wedged in between the floors. Albeit on fire, but there nonetheless. This would also make sense because if you look at the north tower's collapse from the angle that shows the impact zone, there's a little fireball that happens shortly after the collapse starts. Which I would think is the plane exploding in it's entirety.
7:00 To answer your question as to what the helicopter saw, IIRC they reported the tower was leaning to the south. What did that mean, I'm not sure but it's possible there was more buckling and steel bowing inward like we saw with the south tower.
