9-11 General Second Plane WTC Witnesses

Second Plane Banking and Exploding

The mood changed quickly when the second plane hovered into view and swerved into the other tower. Mr. Zwyhun, the Tradecard executive, was on the upper deck of a ferry, returning to New Jersey, when he saw the second crash and realized "this wasn't an accident."

"After the first plane hit the World Trade Center, New York City firefighter Craig Gutkes was part of a ladder company in Brooklyn that was called in to Manhattan. When he was still on the Brooklyn side, his company saw the second plane roar over their heads, "It sounded like a freight train," he said. They watched that plane plow into Tower No. 2. When he arrived on Liberty Street, "It was like a war zone when we got there. There were body parts all over the street."
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]12 Sep 2001: A.1.

"Mr. Spadaro's eyes reddened, and he couldn't bring himself to talk about the experiences of a half-century ago, but he talked about the experience of a week earlier. He was in his living room that day when the world stopped to watch the attack on television. "I've seen death. And in seeing that second plane come in and make a perfect 30-degree bank, I thought, `Oh, my God, I'm seeing it again,' "By Pamela Sebastian and Kelly Greene.Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]25 Sep 2001: B.7K