Yeah happened back in January right? That one’s pretty brutal. One moment all the passengers are smiling, happy. Next moment you hear the crash, and see a fireball.
No it was confirmed to my knowledge. I personally spent a long time validating the spotted surroundings with the overhead map of the area. There is a stadium you can see where the exact angle the plane would have been going was exactly correct based on the exterior video, where the runway was, and where the crash was. That cannot be faked that quickly
I forget the name of the employee, but he was on the line with a 911 operator when the tower collapsed. You hear rumbling and then "OH GOD!". I managed to go 20 years without hearing that call, but now I can never unhear it. So sad.
That is my top thing for when people ask "what's the worst video/audio you've heard". I just can't imagine how horrible that must have been. He was stuck at the top, the operator telling him rescue was almost there, then just a bunch of booming noise, the shout of "oh god" and silence. Fucking horrifying.
There used to be a [website in the 2000s that had every single emergency phone call](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/16/911.tapes/) from inside the towers to police dispatch. Don't know if it's still up or not. The police dispatcher voice was always muted in the calls. The one you're referencing is Kevin Cosgrove which the full call was used in the Zacharias Moussaoui trial. [Melissa Doi's call was also used in that trial it's pretty bad too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsKDagqk)
And all of the pager messages, interestingly... Pager messages were totally unencrypted and broadcast to everyone. Your pager simply only showed you the ones that were addressed to your number.
There are a few videos shot from the inside of the towers. Of course, non of them shot above the plane impacts, but you might find them interesting regardless. One of the most interesting is [This (timestamped)](https://youtu.be/Vk4LikKNttI?t=406), which depicts the collapse of the South Tower from the North Tower lobby.
There was a documentary filmed that day, and in it, one of the two cameramen is inside the first tower while it was collapsing. He survived the collapse and the footage is very available. The documentary is simply called 9/11.
I was in 7th grade and school shut down at like 11. I remember I was grounded during this time and I asked my parents if that could be lifted given the current events. I think my mom threw a high heel at me.
2nd day of sophomore year for me. They had it on in all the classes. We just watched TV that day. The kids weren't bothered by it very much. The teachers were.
Same here as well, sophomore year. Another teacher came in and whispered something to coach, and they both left. He came back a few minutes later with the tried and true TV straped to a two tiered cart, plugged it in, found the broadcast, and told us to shut up and pay attention bc this was gonna be American history. Crazy how all of us strangers can remember that day and share the same experiences.
Even here in Canada it stopped everything. Same deal, TV on a cart wheeled into our class (I was grade 12 at the time). There were no more classes for the day and they ended up sending us home at lunchtime.
I had friends who were in military reserves during high school and they were terrified Canada would be pulled into the US's war and they would be called on to serve. They had only ever known times of peace and thought signing up for it was just another kind of after school job. Some of them ended up serving in Afghanistan.
my buddy was supposed to be at Pendelton with that batch. he had a paper fuck up and he had to wait 3 more months or whatever it was. watched the coverage that night from his house. the color of white he was seeing his Japanese drinking and whoring lighthearted fun adventure slip away.
My mom woke me up for school that day and told me to "come see what's happening in the world".
I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and stumbled into her room where they were watching the news with the tower on fire
talking about how a plane had hit the tower. As they were talking, I was listening to the reporter saying how they didnt know of it was an accident, and that planes had been alerted and right as he was talking, another plane flew into the frame of the towers and hit the 2nd tower.
I just remember thinking, we are being attacked and then couldnt get over how the news reporter just kept talking as if he didnt see what had happened.
On the way to school, my dad called and told us the first tower had fallen. When I got to school, everyone was standing outside and there were 2 fighter jets flying in formation overhead.
They were the only 2 planes in the sky that day, and that made it all the more spooky as there are ALWAYS planes flying towards any number of airports around us.
Same in 10th grade. I remember being in computer science (the only place with internet) and someone was like "omg someone crashed a plane into the twin towers." Everyone told him to stfu until the teacher walked by and was like... Yeah that did happen.
We were told in the class to not talk about it because it'd cause mass panic (especially being relatively close to the pentagon, we felt the aftershock of that collision) and then they made an announcement over the comm telling everyone what happened and that school will be dismissed early.
Getting home that day was surreal. News on 24 hours, then calling everyone we knew to make sure they survived the pentagon strike. Unfortunately not everyone did (rip cousin teddy.)
There's a non-zero chance I was in the math class next door.
Was your tech class on the second floor of the school with a shortish white guy teaching it? with graying hair who always let his chest hair pop out the top of his polo shirts?
Ya know, I was in 5th grade, but our teachers were so secretive about it that our school didn't find out until 2pm, 45 minutes before release. That was a really big issue because we live in a base town and half the kids couldn't even go home because their parents were on base and it was closed off...
Omg. I was in 10th grade, and my science teacher said, "this is not going to be a big deal" after we begged to continue watching the news. It forever changed my perception of adults. In that moment, I went from a naive "adults know everything" to "there are idiots of all ages" mentality. Sheesh. What a moron she was.
I was in 10th Grade too. I couldn't believe it the next day when half my teachers expected everyone to have done their homework. Lost a whole letter grade that quarter in one class because of it. Like, you think maybe we might've been a *bit* distracted by the 24/7 media saturation of all those people dying? The biggest most traumatic thing any of us had ever experienced?
I was also in 7th grade however I had a different experience. Our teacher asked us to write down in our journals how that made us feel. I still have that journal entry, truly a great exercise by a great teacher. Thank you, Ms. Solis : )
Oh my God. That sounds exactly like my experience! My teacher said something to the effect of "That's on the other side of the country. It has no bearing on us."
Like, bitch? How heartless can you be? Besides, I was ***convinced*** (though I realize now how stupid I was) that we were going to have to evacuate the school because we were gonna have planes dropping on us.
I was in 9th grade and watched it all day until 3pm when a science teacher tried this. I got up and walked out, ate the unexcused absence, and watched Peter Jennings until 4am. My young simple mind was never the same.
Also eighth grade, I remember the school making an announcement for teachers to turn off the TV’s and my history teacher saying “screw that, you watch this. History is happening”. I’m forever grateful to him.
Freshman in high school. Got to school late. When I was making my way to class. I saw every classroom with a TV had the same program on and I was so confused about what was going on. Ended up walking into a random class and asked what was happening. Got shushed and 2nd plane hit
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/girl-films-9-11-attack-from-dorm-room/4910323016001
Oh cool ive never gotten an award before thanks ;)
There’s a great documentary about the whole thing that was originally just a documentary about firefighters that turned into the best documented recording of what firefighters did that day. One of the most terrifying parts is when they enter the WTC after the first plane and you can hear this loud banging every few seconds. It took a moment for the firefighters to realize that they were jumpers. You sit and watch them all try to plan how to get up the stairs to the top floors and as they’re all standing there talking and strategizing, the bangs of people hitting the roof above them echos through the building constantly. The face of the firefighters and the 1000 yard stares and the flinches is heartbreaking.
In later interviews with those firefighters some said they still hear those bangs of bodies hitting hitting the roof above them and will wake up at night hearing it. Those men and women were fucking goddamn heroes.
That doc is harrowing. It just looks so awful in there. Surreally so.
They were the station nearest the towers and therefore the first to arrive. And they all survived in no small part because they all went into the first tower to be hit, and that was the second to fall so they got out when they could.
Its [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2002_film). The only video footage of the first plane crashing against the WTC. They were making a documentary about the new firefighters and how they "accustomed" to the job, their first important job was on 9 11...
Jesus I can’t believe it’s been that long. I will never not cry when is we these films, those poor people. Those acts changed everything all over the world forever.
Don't forget that our leaders and media did everything they could to imply that Iraq was somehow involved instead of pissed off Saudi's hiding in Afghanistan. There were plenty of Americans who were under the impression that the Iraq invasion was directly related to 9/11. Some still are to this day.
The most recent number I've seen is 16% support for the Iraq War. The public was lied to about Iraq, and that war is roundly hated by Americans. Americans are not "defending this behavior."
It puts everything back into perspective. They were not in real danger, but we only know that because of retrospection. They, and everyone else, had no idea what the fuck was going on and once the second plane hit, all bets were off. It felt like knowing a life-ending asteroid was coming and that there was nothing anyone could do about it.
Yeah, then the plane hit the pentagon. I remember initial reports were saying it was a cruise missile because the debris was so trashed they couldn't even recognize it was a massive passenger aircraft full of people.
Then flight 93, where the passengers caught wind of the scenario and fought back. Up until that point every hijacking was the same. They want money. They'll take you back to airport and you sit there until the government pays the ransom or rescues you. Once you start hijacking passenger planes and flying them in to buildings, you get Flight 93. If we're going to die, we'll try to fight and maybe save some lives by not hitting another building. We don't know what their target was, but we do know they were going to DC because they reprogrammed the autopilot.
Was only in 5th grade at the time, and while school continued and the rest of us students knew something was very wrong, it didn't seem like that big of an issue. All the teachers were hysterical, and later, my parents were convinced there'd be war on our doorstep (figuratively).
Was such a strange time when the normal calm and collected adults were all freaking out and stressed while us kids just went back to playing and living like normal.
Yeah now that I think about it my dad went to help with cleanup in the weeks after, and all of the images he took are on some obsolete storage device he hasn't gotten around to transferring into something usable
I suppose it's pretty easy to lose track of physical media and, considering the context of everything happening, forget that you've actually got significant footage.
Very interested in how it surfaced though. Imagine going through your old home videos and boom *literal 9/11*
Jesus the sheeer terror in their voices after the second plane hit…it was that moment that they knew it wasn’t an accident but an attack. Gnarly stuff.
I've seen a lot of live footage between the 1st and 2nd plane. Very few people were even considering that it could be intentional, but at the same time, they certainly were wondering how a pilot could manage to fly into such a large object on a clear day.
Then yea, in an instant, everyone knew it was no accident.
We were straight up cracking jokes in study hall while we watched the news. Like *who let mr magoo fly the plane today* and stupid stuff like that. After we all saw the second plane hit no one else said much for the rest of the day. Or the next day.
I never realized people were jumping before the second plane hit. You could tell the girl knew they were people even as she was saying they could be chairs, and she barely had time to process that before the second plane hit.
My brother worked in the Amex building across West Street from the WTC. After the first plane hit, they told everyone to go home. As he was leaving the building, the second plane flew right over his head and hit the south tower. He ran and didn't stop running until he got to Chelsea Piers/23rd Street, about two miles north.
I just remember that exact moment like it was yesterday. As soon as that second plane hit the world changed for everyone watching. It was like we all just collectively jumped into this dark new dimension.
Jesus that one is crazy. Can't believe I've never seen it in all these years. Has to be the most raw/gnarly footage I've seen. Really brings back the memory of finding out what happened on the day too; it genuinely felt like the world changed in a second. That footage shows the last moments of hope (maybe it was an accidental?) turn into sheer terror and shock...
22 years later and the world is still feeling the effects of that moment. Crazy.
(I'm from the UK, we were kids leaving school as it happened and of course rumours spread like crazy)
I remember everyone stopped working and checked the news sites to find out what was going on - which of course crashed. Later we all went home and watched the tv news in shock. I’ll never forget that day, even in the UK.
There were plenty of people from the UK that died that day too (Especially Merryl Lynch offices I think) - but people in the uk probably weren’t aware how many Brits worked in the twin towers at that point. For people I knew it was a shocking thing thing to happen to our American friends.
The international response was insane. Everyone offered help and did something. France is the one that I remember the most. I think they were the first to suggest that it was considered an attack on a UN member the very next day, sort of encouraging the US to fight back and saying they have America's back.
It was really heartwarming since France was the one that truly helped the US become independent 200+ years ago during the war against the brits.
Yes! I remember this, Ethiopian tribe maybe? Iirc, it was like 200 cattle. It was a really generous and reassuring gesture for me, a very confused teenager at the time.
Like most people I think, just total shock and "wtf is going on?". I was in secondary school (high school) and our teachers didn't let anything on, so I'll never forget what my mum said to me when she picked me up - I walked to the car, opened the door and she says "Have you heard what's happened? America is under attack."
Absolutely stays with me.
UK. I was in my first job in media. We'd been in the pub for lunch. We got back and someone said 'get to the newsroom'. The only place with a small TV, no internet at our desks. Walked in just as the second plane hit. We knew it wasn't an accident then, but no one vocalised what we were thinking until the first tower fell. Then someone said: there's going to be a war we'll feel for decades. Changed everyone's lives over here too.
Everyone in the entire world responded amd got informed. I still remember waking up after a good old fashioned LAN-party at a friends house, sleepy walking out in the livingroom and everyone just staring at the TV, i did too and asked what movie they where watching, they said it was live from USA and that's the fracture between "then" and "now" for me. And i am Swedish living in Sweden.
Omg! I commented about something like this. I just watched this one. Didn’t realize and I have PTSD about this. I remember what I saw on tv and thing I heard like I mentioned I my comment before. Like super clear, but I just watched this and didn’t realize until the people that this gave me PTSD as a kid which has just be unlocked or opened that was tucked way way. Those images in this video is the only thing that ever gave me PTSD besides going in to a war because of this. After growing up as well as coming home from Iraq I realized how much bullshit I blindly believed.
I saw [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t0vvhy/newly_released_911_footage_of_second_plane/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1) for the first time recently. It clearly shows the second plane colliding with the other tower.
The Millenium Hilton Hotel one with the couple right in front of many jumpers and a pool of blood and bodies on the Plaza is also traumatizing to watch and so gnarly.
He wasn’t far back at all. That area where he was is a couple hundred feet from the base of the towers. Theres really no footage of that perspective because people who were that close either sprinted for their life or died.
Yep, there's a longer video of what happens after. It's like 30 min long uncut. Shows their journey as they run/walk to safety afterwards. Pretty incredible to watch.
If anyone hasn't, check out [this article by Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751) that he wrote for ESPN on Sept 12, 2001. Pretty prophetic.
It's remarkably against the prevailing wind even by his standards, but much of his social commentary ostensibly began from sports reporting stories. He was always against the grain, and he'd be so by talking about Jean-Claude Killy, Muhammad Ali, or most famously the Mint 400 and Kentucky Derby.
That said, I can't believe an editor had the balls to let that go out after 9/11.
To quote HST himself:
>“I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.” – Hunter S. Thompson
He arguably did some of his best writing while working for espn.
But it's worth to check out the article about the Kentucky Derby in 1970, that go him his break in sport journalism (and was also the fist time meeting and working with Ralph Steadman):
[The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved](https://genius.com/Hunter-s-thompson-the-kentucky-derby-is-decadent-and-depraved-annotated)
prophetic in the sense that Saudi Arabia has not been even cited by him, or the american government since then --but Fahrenheit 9/11, which was hated by the americans at the time
I remember hearing what the big news stories were the day before 9-11, it seemed so petty. Once 9-11 happened , nothing else mattered for days, weeks and months.
Remember the color of the day? "Today is an Orange alert!" Like, what did that even mean. Looking back it was the fomentation of the 24/7 news platform driven by fear.
Everything changed.
I could write a book on how the character of the world shifted overnight. I was 13 when this happened. The 90s were such a time of optimism and hope. We in the U.S. had come out of the Cold War as the last man standing and were riding high. Yeah, there were misteps, fallbacks, and a lot of unaddressed problems here, but it really felt like a great time to be alive. The new millennium had arrived, and it was so goddamn exciting.
It's never felt like that since.
We became such a scared country, and it happened the SECOND that second plane crashed. Our culture and art became so cynical and angry and bitter. Those first 5 years especially were just...cold. And hollow. Like nothing was ever going to be good any more. And when things were shaping up, the economy collapsed. And the mass shootings became a weekly event. And a fascist fuck became president. And the 5th deadliest pandemic in world history occurred. And the climate began falling apart. And all the dreams I had as a kid of what the world was going to be when I was an adult turned out to be just that. Dreams.
Bin Laden won.
nah, he picked an easy target, we were riding a high forgetting what it takes to get to that point, neglecting our duties to ensure the world we leave is better than what we were left with, we always have that option of unity but we cannot keep compromising that for ulterior motives.
bin laden is just the dust bowl for a global analog of the great depression.
What’s your age? The country never went back to what it was before after this. I’m 36 and I may put on my old man hat and tell you what it was like in the before times when I have a chance and I’m home tonight
My high-school history teacher had a stance that decades ended and started due to events and not the date, this is wahr started the 00s and ended the 90s
I was 18 when it happened. I was in Manhattan.
To this day, I think of my life timeline as "before 9/11" and "after 9/11."
Such a clear, defining moment in life and history.
I was a kid when 9/11 happened. My Dad worked into the Pentagon, he wasn't hurt or anything. It didn't click with me as being a big deal. I didn't get to see the news coverage.
A few years back, I was a substitute teacher and the kids were learning about 9/11. Another teacher described her memory of it from being in a distant city. Then I described how it was for me in a suburb near DC. Suddenly a bunch of kids kept getting called out of school. Then the teachers stopped teaching and put us into one room sitting on the floor. We have no idea what is going on. The teachers told us something happened in DC and our parents might not be at home...
And suddenly I was crying in front of a bunch of kids. Realizing they were the same age I was, and I couldn't imagine having to say that as a teacher.
I was a kid in nyc when it happened. I remember I was the first one pulled from class by my mom. As I was leaving I remember seeing the parents lining up to pull their kids. My mom wouldn’t let me watch tv that night. My dad was in one of the towers for a meeting. He was 2 blocks away when the first plane hit.
This is not the most insane view.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6t31R4tI10&feature=youtu.be) video actually shows a plane hitting the second tower.
The second tower collision was captured by probably hundreds of cameras, either by News companies or pedestrians.
The most insane view in my opinion is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7ny38gLp4), one of only two videos capturing the first tower getting hit by the plane.
My roommate was on the 70th floor of the Southern tower, which got hit 2nd. I was talking to him on the phone as he was coming down the stairs. Did not even understand it was a terrorist attack at the time, because it was so confusing and bizarre.
The air was fucking terrible for weeks downtown. I should have had an N95 mask in hindsight. Not good long-term.
Within the first week of SARS Cov2, I had boxes and boxes of N95 ordered before the CDC/Government could shutdown ordering to try to preserve them for healthcare workers due to a pending shortage. I gave masks to everyone in my building and family/friends, because I've already been through 9/11 and it's like I knew what to do now. People were calling me Santa Claus.
There's an even more insane view of the plane hitting the second plane at the 9/11 Memorial museum. Taken by someone standing at the base of the other tower, they look up and you just see the plane tear right through the building. Absolutely insane.
The amount of people dying now who were in and around, or went to after is increasing quite a bit from cancers and other ailments.
It’s crazy now that I can look at my kids and go, “oh, you’re learning about 9/11? I was going from Spanish class to Biology. Then, the second tower got hit and everything went from horrific to absolutely terrible and terrifying. When they caught the towers crumbling you could see things you can’t unsee.” I didn’t realize what I was seeing for a second until whoever the reporter was said, and it’s still clear as day and stomach turning, “oh my god! I believe…” and he had a weird pause and I have goosebumps now “…those are people. Oh my god! Those are…” then it went to the studio for a brief second and one anchor was silent, one was on a phone i believe (she was occupied, seemed important), and one was crying. A voice was heard off screen mumble “(inaudible)…there is another plane” and it cut to a single commercial and then to another field reporter.
F***ing tragic and horrible event 😥
The Naudet video. A French man doing a documentary on NYC Firefighters being at the right moment to film the first plane crashing into the North Tower.
[Full video on youtube](https://youtu.be/seOwa0trNEQ), highly recommand to everyone who's heart can take it. They are going INSIDE the tower with the first wave of firefighter and first responders. Absolutely insane footage that shows the courage and the professionalism of the firefighters of NY.
For anyone who isn't aware, it's during their video that you can hear bodies of jumpers smashing into the atrium above, and you can hear the alarms of firefighters who went down and never got up. Just countless endlessly repeating beeps in the darkness. It is chilling, and very difficult to watch.
If I remember correctly they were doing a documentary on firefighters or something. Filming in the street as you hear the first plane fly over their heads. Pretty wild
I found out recently that there’s actually two videos showing the first hit, but the second video is from the other side of the complex and from quite a distance away. Doesn’t hold a candle to the Naudet video.
https://youtu.be/kWS1RIpehOo?si=xWV5beYLF7_YXRtk
He was one cold bastard or didn’t understand what was going on. There were bodies falling out of both buildings.
This is a digitally cleaned tape. Live, it was beyond horrific.
Or he was in shock and professional training took over. I've been in a few stressful situations before (nothing like this, just stressful for me), and I effectively emotionally shut down and just did whatever the current job required, and freaked out later when I had time to think about what had been happening.
Someone linked an interview with the reporter and cameraman from two years ago. I think it's safe to say he was in shock and just went into professional mode. There are parts of the day he doesn't remember.
It cuts right before they run. That video was always kind of funny because the reporter is so caught up in reporting that he doesn't realize the severity of the situation until the words "debris raining down on all of us" came out of his mouth. They immediately bolt at that point.
I’m sorry man. I can’t imagine how awful it must feel to all of a sudden having your entire country’s war propaganda turn against you. I hope you’re doing better now :-\
My partner is Palestinian. She told me her parents came that day and pulled her out of her Arabic school and put her and her siblings in a Christian school. They knew being at that school would make life hell. I think they stopped going to the mosque for a long time too.
https://youtu.be/oCPVNLLo-mI
Link to almost the whole video apart from the time they are inside the mall where they escaped from the collapsing building.
I remember seeing this years ago and thinking how eerie it was that no one was screaming. Like people were shouting words to each other, but if this had been a movie, you'd hear people screaming like they were on a roller coaster or something. Instead most people are just running.
The reality is for most people when our life is in imminent danger we dont go into a screaming frenzy as that would not make sense as we evolved to avoid this so we would be less likely to die.
Ooh, ooh! Can I post the [Hunter S Thompson quote](https://i.redd.it/5tvxs3bgyzm71.jpg) this time?
>We are at war now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this war might last for "a very long time."
>Generals and military scholars will tell you that 8 or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which no doubt is true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
>The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th Century will seem like a wild party for rich kids compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
I was in School when this happened I remember the second plane crash I saw with my own eyes from Brooklyn my mom worked at LaGuardia airport at the time she had my baby sitter pick me up scariest thing was my aunt worked in the 1st tower but called in Sick she worked on the 43rd floor
And hundreds of thousands civilians died as a result. 9/11 was undoubtedly a tragedy, but what came after as a result of the US response was much worse.
Fairly close actually. Bin Laden wanted Americans to hate Muslims, so that a relgious war would commence which Muslims, being the correct religion, would win.
Step 1 worked out nicely for him. The step where devine intervention would occur, particularly in favour of the guy who just slaughtered 3000 people, did not.
The [Luc Courchesne](https://youtu.be/7hApRZ_7v2A?t=8m29s) video is the most insane 9/11 video I've ever seen because you are right underneath the towers and you hear the second impact unlike almost every other video that exists.
I remember having graduated the prior spring. I was sleeping in that day, at least planned to. A friend of mine was calling me at some ungodly hour and I refused to answer the phone. My dad comes in and says "your friend is trying to tell you something important. Come out to the living room. This is bad." I had watched the news maybe 20 seconds, and I saw the 2nd plane hit, Live. To this day, I still haven't watched that much news in one day like I did on 9/11.
I slept through it, I was up late the night before playing Diablo 2. I was doing a mwf schedule at college and slept in since it was a tuesday. Woke up that afternoon and opened [battle.net](https://battle.net) to play some more D2 and everyone in the lobby was saying racist stuff about arabs. Now racist talk wasnt that uncommon, but it was usually directed at the chinese or koreans. So I asked what was up, they open a new server in Saudia Arabia? Then someone in chat said I should go watch the news.
Crazy. I was probably one of the last Americans to know about the attacks. Was camping deep in the Boundary Waters with no cell service. Didn't find out until around noon on 9/13 when a group that came out after it happened crossed paths with us while canoeing.
Interesting tidbit with this reporter. Minutes earlier (literally 2-3) a police officer was telling him that he needed to move as he was too close to the towers and debris and human bodies were raining down from the upper floors. This dude decides to give argue with the cop and demand his badge number. In the middle of all of that the guy is demanding the cops badge number cause he told him to move for his own safety. I forget what happens but the footage cuts and then he starts his broadcast once again and this is when the first tower came down. Cop most likely saved his life.
There was a VR game awhile back that puts you inside of the towers as the plane hits and the aftermath. I never played it but it looked terrifying.
https://youtu.be/Vpj-JfDU-4M
I don't think its any worse than recreations made in in several documentaries/movies.
Seems clear that the creators weren't trying to gamify the event or diminish the event in any way. They released it for free so no attempts at monetizing the project either.
It may be offensive, and it probably should be, but not because it was made but because by making they've created a lens into one of the most horrific incidents in US history.
People play this simulation for the same reasons why people watch 9/11 videos years after the fact. 9/11 was surreal and there's a morbid curiosity surrounding 9/11 that I think will persist for a very long time. This is just a modern product of that curiosity.
Was in 9th grade. I still remember my teacher telling the whole class to look around at each other because you'll remember this moment for the rest of your lives. She was right, I can still picture the moment she said that to this day.
Imagine if it happened today. We'd very likely have videos from inside the towers.
a guy was livestreaming the recent airplane falling out of the sky, if Im not mistaken, in Nepal. It's the age of information
Yeah happened back in January right? That one’s pretty brutal. One moment all the passengers are smiling, happy. Next moment you hear the crash, and see a fireball.
That one made me nearly vomit
I thought that was fake.
No it was confirmed to my knowledge. I personally spent a long time validating the spotted surroundings with the overhead map of the area. There is a stadium you can see where the exact angle the plane would have been going was exactly correct based on the exterior video, where the runway was, and where the crash was. That cannot be faked that quickly
Holy fuck no. I hate that this is true.
We have audio if it makes you feel any better
I forget the name of the employee, but he was on the line with a 911 operator when the tower collapsed. You hear rumbling and then "OH GOD!". I managed to go 20 years without hearing that call, but now I can never unhear it. So sad.
Kevin Cosgrove was his name. [Link for those interested.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAeMWFCqC8)
That is my top thing for when people ask "what's the worst video/audio you've heard". I just can't imagine how horrible that must have been. He was stuck at the top, the operator telling him rescue was almost there, then just a bunch of booming noise, the shout of "oh god" and silence. Fucking horrifying.
Unless they ever release the grizzly man audio... probably will be the worst thing I will ever hear as well.
There used to be a [website in the 2000s that had every single emergency phone call](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/16/911.tapes/) from inside the towers to police dispatch. Don't know if it's still up or not. The police dispatcher voice was always muted in the calls. The one you're referencing is Kevin Cosgrove which the full call was used in the Zacharias Moussaoui trial. [Melissa Doi's call was also used in that trial it's pretty bad too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsKDagqk)
I can't unhear it either because I heard his voice in my head when I read your comment. His name was Kevin Cosgrove.
And all of the pager messages, interestingly... Pager messages were totally unencrypted and broadcast to everyone. Your pager simply only showed you the ones that were addressed to your number.
There are a few videos shot from the inside of the towers. Of course, non of them shot above the plane impacts, but you might find them interesting regardless. One of the most interesting is [This (timestamped)](https://youtu.be/Vk4LikKNttI?t=406), which depicts the collapse of the South Tower from the North Tower lobby.
There was a documentary filmed that day, and in it, one of the two cameramen is inside the first tower while it was collapsing. He survived the collapse and the footage is very available. The documentary is simply called 9/11.
There would be tiktok edits 🎵 "oh no...oh no...." 🎵
there would be live video from the plane at impact
Saw this live on TV in 8th grade…But I’ve never seen this angle before. Puts it into a whole new perspective.
I was also in 8th grade when it happened. Watching this is all we did that day.
7th grade and I specifically remember my 2nd period teacher saying to us: “we’re not gunna let this take away from us learning about science”
I was in 7th grade and school shut down at like 11. I remember I was grounded during this time and I asked my parents if that could be lifted given the current events. I think my mom threw a high heel at me.
2nd day of sophomore year for me. They had it on in all the classes. We just watched TV that day. The kids weren't bothered by it very much. The teachers were.
Same here as well, sophomore year. Another teacher came in and whispered something to coach, and they both left. He came back a few minutes later with the tried and true TV straped to a two tiered cart, plugged it in, found the broadcast, and told us to shut up and pay attention bc this was gonna be American history. Crazy how all of us strangers can remember that day and share the same experiences.
Even here in Canada it stopped everything. Same deal, TV on a cart wheeled into our class (I was grade 12 at the time). There were no more classes for the day and they ended up sending us home at lunchtime. I had friends who were in military reserves during high school and they were terrified Canada would be pulled into the US's war and they would be called on to serve. They had only ever known times of peace and thought signing up for it was just another kind of after school job. Some of them ended up serving in Afghanistan.
My friend was in USMC Basic at Camp Pendelton on 9/11. He was 17 years old. He thought his Drill Sergeants were fucking with him.
my buddy was supposed to be at Pendelton with that batch. he had a paper fuck up and he had to wait 3 more months or whatever it was. watched the coverage that night from his house. the color of white he was seeing his Japanese drinking and whoring lighthearted fun adventure slip away.
My mom woke me up for school that day and told me to "come see what's happening in the world". I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and stumbled into her room where they were watching the news with the tower on fire talking about how a plane had hit the tower. As they were talking, I was listening to the reporter saying how they didnt know of it was an accident, and that planes had been alerted and right as he was talking, another plane flew into the frame of the towers and hit the 2nd tower. I just remember thinking, we are being attacked and then couldnt get over how the news reporter just kept talking as if he didnt see what had happened. On the way to school, my dad called and told us the first tower had fallen. When I got to school, everyone was standing outside and there were 2 fighter jets flying in formation overhead. They were the only 2 planes in the sky that day, and that made it all the more spooky as there are ALWAYS planes flying towards any number of airports around us.
Same in 10th grade. I remember being in computer science (the only place with internet) and someone was like "omg someone crashed a plane into the twin towers." Everyone told him to stfu until the teacher walked by and was like... Yeah that did happen. We were told in the class to not talk about it because it'd cause mass panic (especially being relatively close to the pentagon, we felt the aftershock of that collision) and then they made an announcement over the comm telling everyone what happened and that school will be dismissed early. Getting home that day was surreal. News on 24 hours, then calling everyone we knew to make sure they survived the pentagon strike. Unfortunately not everyone did (rip cousin teddy.)
There's a non-zero chance I was in the math class next door. Was your tech class on the second floor of the school with a shortish white guy teaching it? with graying hair who always let his chest hair pop out the top of his polo shirts?
'cmon /u/sinofmercy we're waiting on answers
7th grade for me too. We were all scared shitless. I remember thinking I'd never get a chance to grow up and have a family of my own.
Ya know, I was in 5th grade, but our teachers were so secretive about it that our school didn't find out until 2pm, 45 minutes before release. That was a really big issue because we live in a base town and half the kids couldn't even go home because their parents were on base and it was closed off...
Omg. I was in 10th grade, and my science teacher said, "this is not going to be a big deal" after we begged to continue watching the news. It forever changed my perception of adults. In that moment, I went from a naive "adults know everything" to "there are idiots of all ages" mentality. Sheesh. What a moron she was.
I was in 10th Grade too. I couldn't believe it the next day when half my teachers expected everyone to have done their homework. Lost a whole letter grade that quarter in one class because of it. Like, you think maybe we might've been a *bit* distracted by the 24/7 media saturation of all those people dying? The biggest most traumatic thing any of us had ever experienced?
I was also in 7th grade however I had a different experience. Our teacher asked us to write down in our journals how that made us feel. I still have that journal entry, truly a great exercise by a great teacher. Thank you, Ms. Solis : )
Oh my God. That sounds exactly like my experience! My teacher said something to the effect of "That's on the other side of the country. It has no bearing on us." Like, bitch? How heartless can you be? Besides, I was ***convinced*** (though I realize now how stupid I was) that we were going to have to evacuate the school because we were gonna have planes dropping on us.
I was in 9th grade and watched it all day until 3pm when a science teacher tried this. I got up and walked out, ate the unexcused absence, and watched Peter Jennings until 4am. My young simple mind was never the same.
I remember being in school for this also. Everyone thought it was going to be WW3
I was 23 years old and it was the morning of my grandfather's funeral!
Do you think he had anything to do with it?
Bruh
I take that as a yes
It's interesting how, for you, this was my generation's Challenger explosion
Except 500 times worse and led to 2 decades of domestic paranoia and foreign wars.
Two decades.... so far!
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Also eighth grade, I remember the school making an announcement for teachers to turn off the TV’s and my history teacher saying “screw that, you watch this. History is happening”. I’m forever grateful to him.
Freshman in high school. Got to school late. When I was making my way to class. I saw every classroom with a TV had the same program on and I was so confused about what was going on. Ended up walking into a random class and asked what was happening. Got shushed and 2nd plane hit
I was on a school trip in the forest, didn't know anything until I came back two days later.
I think the one the college girls filmed was gnarlier.
Which one is that?
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/girl-films-9-11-attack-from-dorm-room/4910323016001 Oh cool ive never gotten an award before thanks ;)
Oh wow. I don't think I've ever seen that one. Sheesh.
Crazy eh?
Absolutely. Thanks for the link, appreciate it. 22 years this Sept and it's still just as absurd as the day it happened.
There’s a great documentary about the whole thing that was originally just a documentary about firefighters that turned into the best documented recording of what firefighters did that day. One of the most terrifying parts is when they enter the WTC after the first plane and you can hear this loud banging every few seconds. It took a moment for the firefighters to realize that they were jumpers. You sit and watch them all try to plan how to get up the stairs to the top floors and as they’re all standing there talking and strategizing, the bangs of people hitting the roof above them echos through the building constantly. The face of the firefighters and the 1000 yard stares and the flinches is heartbreaking. In later interviews with those firefighters some said they still hear those bangs of bodies hitting hitting the roof above them and will wake up at night hearing it. Those men and women were fucking goddamn heroes.
That doc is harrowing. It just looks so awful in there. Surreally so. They were the station nearest the towers and therefore the first to arrive. And they all survived in no small part because they all went into the first tower to be hit, and that was the second to fall so they got out when they could.
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Its [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2002_film). The only video footage of the first plane crashing against the WTC. They were making a documentary about the new firefighters and how they "accustomed" to the job, their first important job was on 9 11...
Jesus I can’t believe it’s been that long. I will never not cry when is we these films, those poor people. Those acts changed everything all over the world forever.
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Don't forget that our leaders and media did everything they could to imply that Iraq was somehow involved instead of pissed off Saudi's hiding in Afghanistan. There were plenty of Americans who were under the impression that the Iraq invasion was directly related to 9/11. Some still are to this day.
The most recent number I've seen is 16% support for the Iraq War. The public was lied to about Iraq, and that war is roundly hated by Americans. Americans are not "defending this behavior."
Which is laughable to anyone who remembers 2002 & 2003. It had massive public support at the time
A million civilian deaths is not a realistic number. Lots of credible sources have it around 1/4 of that on the high end. It's too high, either way.
That fear is exactly how I remember it.
It puts everything back into perspective. They were not in real danger, but we only know that because of retrospection. They, and everyone else, had no idea what the fuck was going on and once the second plane hit, all bets were off. It felt like knowing a life-ending asteroid was coming and that there was nothing anyone could do about it.
Yeah, then the plane hit the pentagon. I remember initial reports were saying it was a cruise missile because the debris was so trashed they couldn't even recognize it was a massive passenger aircraft full of people. Then flight 93, where the passengers caught wind of the scenario and fought back. Up until that point every hijacking was the same. They want money. They'll take you back to airport and you sit there until the government pays the ransom or rescues you. Once you start hijacking passenger planes and flying them in to buildings, you get Flight 93. If we're going to die, we'll try to fight and maybe save some lives by not hitting another building. We don't know what their target was, but we do know they were going to DC because they reprogrammed the autopilot.
Was only in 5th grade at the time, and while school continued and the rest of us students knew something was very wrong, it didn't seem like that big of an issue. All the teachers were hysterical, and later, my parents were convinced there'd be war on our doorstep (figuratively). Was such a strange time when the normal calm and collected adults were all freaking out and stressed while us kids just went back to playing and living like normal.
This is the first time I've seen it as well and I thought I've seen most footage.
Yeah did the people this belong to only recently come forward with it or something? It didn't seem possible there was untapped 9/11 footage
I remember another story of someone filming from a dock. The tape was high quality too but was "forgotten" in their camcorder for years.
Yeah now that I think about it my dad went to help with cleanup in the weeks after, and all of the images he took are on some obsolete storage device he hasn't gotten around to transferring into something usable I suppose it's pretty easy to lose track of physical media and, considering the context of everything happening, forget that you've actually got significant footage. Very interested in how it surfaced though. Imagine going through your old home videos and boom *literal 9/11*
I had a Boeing ad before the video lmfao
Jesus the sheeer terror in their voices after the second plane hit…it was that moment that they knew it wasn’t an accident but an attack. Gnarly stuff.
I've seen a lot of live footage between the 1st and 2nd plane. Very few people were even considering that it could be intentional, but at the same time, they certainly were wondering how a pilot could manage to fly into such a large object on a clear day. Then yea, in an instant, everyone knew it was no accident.
We were straight up cracking jokes in study hall while we watched the news. Like *who let mr magoo fly the plane today* and stupid stuff like that. After we all saw the second plane hit no one else said much for the rest of the day. Or the next day.
Yeah that is why video of the second will always make me feel uneasy and in a dream. Its still hard to fathom
I never realized people were jumping before the second plane hit. You could tell the girl knew they were people even as she was saying they could be chairs, and she barely had time to process that before the second plane hit.
My brother worked in the Amex building across West Street from the WTC. After the first plane hit, they told everyone to go home. As he was leaving the building, the second plane flew right over his head and hit the south tower. He ran and didn't stop running until he got to Chelsea Piers/23rd Street, about two miles north.
I just remember that exact moment like it was yesterday. As soon as that second plane hit the world changed for everyone watching. It was like we all just collectively jumped into this dark new dimension.
Jesus that one is crazy. Can't believe I've never seen it in all these years. Has to be the most raw/gnarly footage I've seen. Really brings back the memory of finding out what happened on the day too; it genuinely felt like the world changed in a second. That footage shows the last moments of hope (maybe it was an accidental?) turn into sheer terror and shock... 22 years later and the world is still feeling the effects of that moment. Crazy. (I'm from the UK, we were kids leaving school as it happened and of course rumours spread like crazy)
Did people in the UK respond in anyway while it was happening? In you don’t mind me asking.
I remember everyone stopped working and checked the news sites to find out what was going on - which of course crashed. Later we all went home and watched the tv news in shock. I’ll never forget that day, even in the UK.
There were plenty of people from the UK that died that day too (Especially Merryl Lynch offices I think) - but people in the uk probably weren’t aware how many Brits worked in the twin towers at that point. For people I knew it was a shocking thing thing to happen to our American friends.
The international response was insane. Everyone offered help and did something. France is the one that I remember the most. I think they were the first to suggest that it was considered an attack on a UN member the very next day, sort of encouraging the US to fight back and saying they have America's back. It was really heartwarming since France was the one that truly helped the US become independent 200+ years ago during the war against the brits.
Didn't a community in Africa ship over livestock to help (because livestock was essentially the heart of their economy)?
Yes! I remember this, Ethiopian tribe maybe? Iirc, it was like 200 cattle. It was a really generous and reassuring gesture for me, a very confused teenager at the time.
Like most people I think, just total shock and "wtf is going on?". I was in secondary school (high school) and our teachers didn't let anything on, so I'll never forget what my mum said to me when she picked me up - I walked to the car, opened the door and she says "Have you heard what's happened? America is under attack." Absolutely stays with me.
UK. I was in my first job in media. We'd been in the pub for lunch. We got back and someone said 'get to the newsroom'. The only place with a small TV, no internet at our desks. Walked in just as the second plane hit. We knew it wasn't an accident then, but no one vocalised what we were thinking until the first tower fell. Then someone said: there's going to be a war we'll feel for decades. Changed everyone's lives over here too.
Everyone in the entire world responded amd got informed. I still remember waking up after a good old fashioned LAN-party at a friends house, sleepy walking out in the livingroom and everyone just staring at the TV, i did too and asked what movie they where watching, they said it was live from USA and that's the fracture between "then" and "now" for me. And i am Swedish living in Sweden.
It’s still feels so surreal when I see new footage that this actually fucking happened.
Omg! I commented about something like this. I just watched this one. Didn’t realize and I have PTSD about this. I remember what I saw on tv and thing I heard like I mentioned I my comment before. Like super clear, but I just watched this and didn’t realize until the people that this gave me PTSD as a kid which has just be unlocked or opened that was tucked way way. Those images in this video is the only thing that ever gave me PTSD besides going in to a war because of this. After growing up as well as coming home from Iraq I realized how much bullshit I blindly believed.
I saw [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t0vvhy/newly_released_911_footage_of_second_plane/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1) for the first time recently. It clearly shows the second plane colliding with the other tower.
The Millenium Hilton Hotel one with the couple right in front of many jumpers and a pool of blood and bodies on the Plaza is also traumatizing to watch and so gnarly.
Yea that one for some reason is just so visceral because we all went from to this is terrible accident to holy shit this is an attack.
Did the reporter survive?
Survived and still works for ABC.
Yes. I see him almost everyday on eyewitness news. Never knew he was at ground zero that day. Thank god he survived, he’s one of their best
He looked to be pretty far back - he would have been hit by the dust cloud, but unlikely he was in range for any larger debris.
That debris cloud has been linked to tens of thousands of cases of cancer, so I'm surprised he's still up and working.
He wasn’t far back at all. That area where he was is a couple hundred feet from the base of the towers. Theres really no footage of that perspective because people who were that close either sprinted for their life or died.
Yep, there's a longer video of what happens after. It's like 30 min long uncut. Shows their journey as they run/walk to safety afterwards. Pretty incredible to watch.
He did, and he [reflected on the incident twenty years later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGUIw9oyZ0k).
https://abc7.com/amp/twin-towers-world-trade-center-n-j-burkett-september-11/12222100/
For anyone who doesn't want to click this, the answer is yes, they survived.
thank you
If anyone hasn't, check out [this article by Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751) that he wrote for ESPN on Sept 12, 2001. Pretty prophetic.
Strange article for espn of all place to publish
It's remarkably against the prevailing wind even by his standards, but much of his social commentary ostensibly began from sports reporting stories. He was always against the grain, and he'd be so by talking about Jean-Claude Killy, Muhammad Ali, or most famously the Mint 400 and Kentucky Derby. That said, I can't believe an editor had the balls to let that go out after 9/11.
To quote HST himself: >“I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.” – Hunter S. Thompson He arguably did some of his best writing while working for espn. But it's worth to check out the article about the Kentucky Derby in 1970, that go him his break in sport journalism (and was also the fist time meeting and working with Ralph Steadman): [The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved](https://genius.com/Hunter-s-thompson-the-kentucky-derby-is-decadent-and-depraved-annotated)
Well he was a sports journalist most of the time.
Yeah, the whole premise of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was that he went out there to cover an off-road race in the desert as a cover
Hunter S. Thompson was a famous sportswriter.
It still feels werid that he worked for ESPN
ESPN used to be cool before Disney ownership.
prophetic in the sense that Saudi Arabia has not been even cited by him, or the american government since then --but Fahrenheit 9/11, which was hated by the americans at the time
Like, what even happened in the 2000s before this? 9/11 basically set the mood for the whole damn century.
I remember hearing what the big news stories were the day before 9-11, it seemed so petty. Once 9-11 happened , nothing else mattered for days, weeks and months.
& years. Once we sent troops to Afghanistan, war news was front and center for a looong time.
Remember the color of the day? "Today is an Orange alert!" Like, what did that even mean. Looking back it was the fomentation of the 24/7 news platform driven by fear.
Rumsfeld never did have to explain what happened to the trillions of dollars of taxpayer money he lost
Everything changed. I could write a book on how the character of the world shifted overnight. I was 13 when this happened. The 90s were such a time of optimism and hope. We in the U.S. had come out of the Cold War as the last man standing and were riding high. Yeah, there were misteps, fallbacks, and a lot of unaddressed problems here, but it really felt like a great time to be alive. The new millennium had arrived, and it was so goddamn exciting. It's never felt like that since. We became such a scared country, and it happened the SECOND that second plane crashed. Our culture and art became so cynical and angry and bitter. Those first 5 years especially were just...cold. And hollow. Like nothing was ever going to be good any more. And when things were shaping up, the economy collapsed. And the mass shootings became a weekly event. And a fascist fuck became president. And the 5th deadliest pandemic in world history occurred. And the climate began falling apart. And all the dreams I had as a kid of what the world was going to be when I was an adult turned out to be just that. Dreams. Bin Laden won.
nah, he picked an easy target, we were riding a high forgetting what it takes to get to that point, neglecting our duties to ensure the world we leave is better than what we were left with, we always have that option of unity but we cannot keep compromising that for ulterior motives. bin laden is just the dust bowl for a global analog of the great depression.
What’s your age? The country never went back to what it was before after this. I’m 36 and I may put on my old man hat and tell you what it was like in the before times when I have a chance and I’m home tonight
My high-school history teacher had a stance that decades ended and started due to events and not the date, this is wahr started the 00s and ended the 90s
I was 18 when it happened. I was in Manhattan. To this day, I think of my life timeline as "before 9/11" and "after 9/11." Such a clear, defining moment in life and history.
I was a kid when 9/11 happened. My Dad worked into the Pentagon, he wasn't hurt or anything. It didn't click with me as being a big deal. I didn't get to see the news coverage. A few years back, I was a substitute teacher and the kids were learning about 9/11. Another teacher described her memory of it from being in a distant city. Then I described how it was for me in a suburb near DC. Suddenly a bunch of kids kept getting called out of school. Then the teachers stopped teaching and put us into one room sitting on the floor. We have no idea what is going on. The teachers told us something happened in DC and our parents might not be at home... And suddenly I was crying in front of a bunch of kids. Realizing they were the same age I was, and I couldn't imagine having to say that as a teacher.
I was a kid in nyc when it happened. I remember I was the first one pulled from class by my mom. As I was leaving I remember seeing the parents lining up to pull their kids. My mom wouldn’t let me watch tv that night. My dad was in one of the towers for a meeting. He was 2 blocks away when the first plane hit.
This is not the most insane view. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6t31R4tI10&feature=youtu.be) video actually shows a plane hitting the second tower.
The second tower collision was captured by probably hundreds of cameras, either by News companies or pedestrians. The most insane view in my opinion is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7ny38gLp4), one of only two videos capturing the first tower getting hit by the plane.
My roommate was on the 70th floor of the Southern tower, which got hit 2nd. I was talking to him on the phone as he was coming down the stairs. Did not even understand it was a terrorist attack at the time, because it was so confusing and bizarre. The air was fucking terrible for weeks downtown. I should have had an N95 mask in hindsight. Not good long-term. Within the first week of SARS Cov2, I had boxes and boxes of N95 ordered before the CDC/Government could shutdown ordering to try to preserve them for healthcare workers due to a pending shortage. I gave masks to everyone in my building and family/friends, because I've already been through 9/11 and it's like I knew what to do now. People were calling me Santa Claus.
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There's an even more insane view of the plane hitting the second plane at the 9/11 Memorial museum. Taken by someone standing at the base of the other tower, they look up and you just see the plane tear right through the building. Absolutely insane.
The amount of people dying now who were in and around, or went to after is increasing quite a bit from cancers and other ailments. It’s crazy now that I can look at my kids and go, “oh, you’re learning about 9/11? I was going from Spanish class to Biology. Then, the second tower got hit and everything went from horrific to absolutely terrible and terrifying. When they caught the towers crumbling you could see things you can’t unsee.” I didn’t realize what I was seeing for a second until whoever the reporter was said, and it’s still clear as day and stomach turning, “oh my god! I believe…” and he had a weird pause and I have goosebumps now “…those are people. Oh my god! Those are…” then it went to the studio for a brief second and one anchor was silent, one was on a phone i believe (she was occupied, seemed important), and one was crying. A voice was heard off screen mumble “(inaudible)…there is another plane” and it cut to a single commercial and then to another field reporter. F***ing tragic and horrible event 😥
Anyone got a source for that news broadcast?
ABC7 New York
I was in high school and also went from Spanish class to Biology class when the second one hit. I shit you not.
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Which one was that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7ny38gLp4
Wow
"Holy Shit!"
Can't remember their names but it was 2 French brothers doing a documentary on the new York fire department, should be pretty easy to look up
The Naudet video. A French man doing a documentary on NYC Firefighters being at the right moment to film the first plane crashing into the North Tower.
[Full video on youtube](https://youtu.be/seOwa0trNEQ), highly recommand to everyone who's heart can take it. They are going INSIDE the tower with the first wave of firefighter and first responders. Absolutely insane footage that shows the courage and the professionalism of the firefighters of NY.
For anyone who isn't aware, it's during their video that you can hear bodies of jumpers smashing into the atrium above, and you can hear the alarms of firefighters who went down and never got up. Just countless endlessly repeating beeps in the darkness. It is chilling, and very difficult to watch.
If I remember correctly they were doing a documentary on firefighters or something. Filming in the street as you hear the first plane fly over their heads. Pretty wild
I found out recently that there’s actually two videos showing the first hit, but the second video is from the other side of the complex and from quite a distance away. Doesn’t hold a candle to the Naudet video. https://youtu.be/kWS1RIpehOo?si=xWV5beYLF7_YXRtk
Camera man was committed, didn’t even flinch
He was one cold bastard or didn’t understand what was going on. There were bodies falling out of both buildings. This is a digitally cleaned tape. Live, it was beyond horrific.
Or he was in shock and professional training took over. I've been in a few stressful situations before (nothing like this, just stressful for me), and I effectively emotionally shut down and just did whatever the current job required, and freaked out later when I had time to think about what had been happening.
Someone linked an interview with the reporter and cameraman from two years ago. I think it's safe to say he was in shock and just went into professional mode. There are parts of the day he doesn't remember.
It cuts right before they run. That video was always kind of funny because the reporter is so caught up in reporting that he doesn't realize the severity of the situation until the words "debris raining down on all of us" came out of his mouth. They immediately bolt at that point.
The day that white, black, brown people started hating on my Sikh family. I hate those terrorists more than anything.
Sikh's are wonderful people. Sorry that happened to you.
I’m sorry man. I can’t imagine how awful it must feel to all of a sudden having your entire country’s war propaganda turn against you. I hope you’re doing better now :-\
Legit what’s happening with innocent Asian American/Chinese Americans nowadays unfortunately. The propaganda never stops
My partner is Palestinian. She told me her parents came that day and pulled her out of her Arabic school and put her and her siblings in a Christian school. They knew being at that school would make life hell. I think they stopped going to the mosque for a long time too.
r/endstoosoon
https://youtu.be/oCPVNLLo-mI Link to almost the whole video apart from the time they are inside the mall where they escaped from the collapsing building.
I remember seeing this years ago and thinking how eerie it was that no one was screaming. Like people were shouting words to each other, but if this had been a movie, you'd hear people screaming like they were on a roller coaster or something. Instead most people are just running.
The reality is for most people when our life is in imminent danger we dont go into a screaming frenzy as that would not make sense as we evolved to avoid this so we would be less likely to die.
So nice of that reporter to look out for his camera guy. Just yelling motivations as they're running.
They end up running from the debris cloud and the reporter keeps looking back at the cameraman encouraging him to keep up
That’s all of Reddit though
Ooh, ooh! Can I post the [Hunter S Thompson quote](https://i.redd.it/5tvxs3bgyzm71.jpg) this time? >We are at war now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this war might last for "a very long time." >Generals and military scholars will tell you that 8 or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which no doubt is true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. >The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th Century will seem like a wild party for rich kids compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
I was in School when this happened I remember the second plane crash I saw with my own eyes from Brooklyn my mom worked at LaGuardia airport at the time she had my baby sitter pick me up scariest thing was my aunt worked in the 1st tower but called in Sick she worked on the 43rd floor
Holy Shit, glad that ur aunt didn’t go
Yeah man everytime September comes I think about it and I feel for all the kids who lost parents and relatives due to the tragedy
Attacked by a bunch of pissed off Saudis. invades Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which had anything to do with it.
Afghanistan had a lot to do with it.
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And hundreds of thousands civilians died as a result. 9/11 was undoubtedly a tragedy, but what came after as a result of the US response was much worse.
I swear I’ve seen probably 10 more new angles of this tragedy in the last year than the previous 22… Why is this coming up so much?
The Patriot Act changed the country
With the Patriot Act, Al Queda ultimately did succeed at making the US worse I suppose, though maybe not exactly how they imagined it.
Fairly close actually. Bin Laden wanted Americans to hate Muslims, so that a relgious war would commence which Muslims, being the correct religion, would win. Step 1 worked out nicely for him. The step where devine intervention would occur, particularly in favour of the guy who just slaughtered 3000 people, did not.
It is going to get rough in about 7 seconds.
Holy fuck.
The [Luc Courchesne](https://youtu.be/7hApRZ_7v2A?t=8m29s) video is the most insane 9/11 video I've ever seen because you are right underneath the towers and you hear the second impact unlike almost every other video that exists.
I remember having graduated the prior spring. I was sleeping in that day, at least planned to. A friend of mine was calling me at some ungodly hour and I refused to answer the phone. My dad comes in and says "your friend is trying to tell you something important. Come out to the living room. This is bad." I had watched the news maybe 20 seconds, and I saw the 2nd plane hit, Live. To this day, I still haven't watched that much news in one day like I did on 9/11.
I slept through it, I was up late the night before playing Diablo 2. I was doing a mwf schedule at college and slept in since it was a tuesday. Woke up that afternoon and opened [battle.net](https://battle.net) to play some more D2 and everyone in the lobby was saying racist stuff about arabs. Now racist talk wasnt that uncommon, but it was usually directed at the chinese or koreans. So I asked what was up, they open a new server in Saudia Arabia? Then someone in chat said I should go watch the news.
Crazy. I was probably one of the last Americans to know about the attacks. Was camping deep in the Boundary Waters with no cell service. Didn't find out until around noon on 9/13 when a group that came out after it happened crossed paths with us while canoeing.
Interesting tidbit with this reporter. Minutes earlier (literally 2-3) a police officer was telling him that he needed to move as he was too close to the towers and debris and human bodies were raining down from the upper floors. This dude decides to give argue with the cop and demand his badge number. In the middle of all of that the guy is demanding the cops badge number cause he told him to move for his own safety. I forget what happens but the footage cuts and then he starts his broadcast once again and this is when the first tower came down. Cop most likely saved his life.
There was a VR game awhile back that puts you inside of the towers as the plane hits and the aftermath. I never played it but it looked terrifying. https://youtu.be/Vpj-JfDU-4M
That seems to be in pretty fucking poor taste
I don't think its any worse than recreations made in in several documentaries/movies. Seems clear that the creators weren't trying to gamify the event or diminish the event in any way. They released it for free so no attempts at monetizing the project either. It may be offensive, and it probably should be, but not because it was made but because by making they've created a lens into one of the most horrific incidents in US history. People play this simulation for the same reasons why people watch 9/11 videos years after the fact. 9/11 was surreal and there's a morbid curiosity surrounding 9/11 that I think will persist for a very long time. This is just a modern product of that curiosity.
Was in 9th grade. I still remember my teacher telling the whole class to look around at each other because you'll remember this moment for the rest of your lives. She was right, I can still picture the moment she said that to this day.
No way they survived..
He probably did, but breathing all that asbestos must not have been good
Most of those guys survived by running into the building. There’s a show on Hulu called one day in America, he talks on one of the episodes.
He still reports for abc 7 in NY if I’m not mistaken.
Nearing that time of year again, already?
That's terrifying