Mike Bergman
The events that followed have been well documented in the media, but words can never describe the horrific scenes. We kept moving toward the water when we heard the rumbling from the middle of the South Tower. Sensing all 110 stories would collapse on us, we began to run.
As it turned out, the building was imploding, not toppling. However, a giant wall of grayish smoke was moving down the canyons of Manhattan toward us, and we feared a firestorm of flying debris.
The cloud enveloped us with choking smoke for what seemed like an eternity. I pulled my shirt over my head to breathe as we made our way to Battery Park. Shortly after we reached the park, the other tower imploded.
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thirty-fourth floor of Gateway Plaza
" I could read the BOEING 767 painted under the cockpit window."
"the pilot cut the engines. "
"horrible silence right before "
"That's when I saw all these firemen come running out of Tower Two, screaming to get away, the building was imploding."
Jessica Trant Cantor Fitzgerald.
"They asked what it's like not having his body. There's nothing left of him; there's nothing left to bury. It's just not a way to go. I know they've found body parts,"
Dr. Robert Klitzman
Then a doctor, covered in soot, burst into the hospital. He said that everyone had been vaporized. I thought, How do I tell my mother that my sister has been vaporized?
Karin Batten
and all the kids told me they saw the plane coming by their classroom and hitting the tower and they saw people jumping from the building.
David Fitzpatrick
The most senior member of the NYPD's Technical Assistance Response Unit, Fitzpatrick photographed the burning towers from a police helicopter.
Kerry Cashelof
„
At this point I was still under the impression that this was an accident and
after watching and filming this other plane make a U turn and head
back towards the towers nothing in the world could have prepared me for
what would happen next.“
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WALSH
WTC1 airplane
SO EVERYBODY LOOKED UP TO WHERE THEY THOUGHT THEY HEARD THE SOUND COMING FROM. AND WE SAW AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANE TO ME IT
LOOKED AS THOUGH IT WAS GOING TREETOP LEVEL RIGHT DOWN WEST STREET. THEN HE APPEARED TO RISE LITTLE BIT. WE WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION
HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GOING DOWN, BUT WE DIDNT HEAR ANY MECHANICAL DIFFICULTY WE COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHY AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANE
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