A video was shared on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter about the September 11 attacks that took place at the World Trade Center in New York City. A video was shared about the September 11 attacks that took place at the World Trade Center in New York City.
A video has just been uploaded on-line, which has never been seen, showing a second plane hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11, 2001. The video, showing the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11, 2001, has just been uploaded on-line, providing an awful perspective of a devastating attack many people had not seen. The nine-minute clip, uploaded on YouTube February 24th by user Kevin Westley, shows the terrifying moment when the second plane struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center, seventeen minutes after the North Tower was struck by US Airways Flight 11. Two airplanes, hijacked by Islamic jihadists who promised the death of all Americans, plunged into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Mark LaGangas footage gives viewers a rare, close-up view of 29 minutes of dust, chaos, and silence between when the two planes crashed. Manhattan Police Officer Richard Adamiak, front right, was one of a number of people who took shelter at a food hall outside of the World Trade Center following the collapse of the towers. When the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists in New York City, Marty Lederhandler crossed the street from The Associated Pressas offices in Rockefeller Center, and took the elevator up to the 65th floor of the General Electric Building, and photographed the burning towers in the distance.
On the streets outside the North Tower, New York looked unrecognizable, all misty and monochromatic.
After hearing the sound of loud clatter -- Flight 11s roaring approach to the North Tower -- Jules Naudet captured what would become rare footage of the plane hitting the building. Mark LaGanga was not aware the South Tower had already fallen on itself, nor could he imagine that the North Tower would come down soon thereafter, swallowing him and all those around him in a dense cloud of ash-coloured debris.
This video from 1994 shows office workers and a kitchen at the 7 World Trade Center, the building adjacent to its twin towers, which was also destroyed in 2001. Despite the record-setting heights of its twin towers, with their memorably panoramic views of New York, excerpts of news accounts and amateur videos are reminders that the World Trade Center was also a place of work, just like any other office complex. Users on TikTok and YouTube posted videos showing life inside and around the World Trade Center from construction in 1970 to its destruction on Sept. 11, 2001. The video shows a man walking through a building on September 11, 1970, before it was destroyed.
Another video, from 1987, shows the World Trade Center at ground level, including images of Fritz Koenigs Sphere sculpture, designed to symbolize how commerce could foster global peace. Footage on other news channels also shows the moment Flight 175 struck the south tower, including CNNs live coverage. Women react when they see the collapse of the South Tower, which is located approximately one-half mile away, on Canal Street.
Twenty years after the September 11th terror attacks, footage that LaGanga captured that morning provides a unique firsthand account of rescue workers at ground zero moments after two planes struck. With roughly one month remaining before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York, NY, a federal judge in NYC has issued a pretty epic copyright ruling examining how different films and documentaries used footage of the fatal day by the AP photographer. After the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Kelly Guenther grabbed her camera equipment and ran out onto Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which looks out over New York Harbor and over the lower Manhattan skyline.
"I saw the Twin Towers fall"
Earlier that morning, LaGanga's cell phone and home landline rang simultaneously. An editor on the CBS News national desk was calling and directed him to drive to downtown Manhattan to shoot what, at that time, was thought to be a plane crash into a building in lower Manhattan.
But the farther downtown he got, LaGanga, now a 60 Minutes cameraman, tried to make sense of the nightmare unfolding in front of him.
When he could not drive his news truck any farther, when the street in front of him was blocked by stopped cars and shell-shocked people fleeing north, he parked and stood on his truck's roof to get a better angle of the smoke billowing out of the north tower. He turned on his camera a few minutes after 10 am.
The south tower had collapsed at 9:59 am, but LaGanga did not yet realize it.
"There was so much dust and the street signs were hard to see that it never really dawned on me that one tower already came down," LaGanga said in a 2018 interview.
As he walked from the highway toward the base of the north tower, he interviewed passersby, asking the question on everyone's mind: "What happened?" A policeman thought the roof had caved in; a fireman thought part of the building collapsed. Even those who watched it happen up close could not process that the entire south tower, a gargantuan skyscraper of 110 floors, had suddenly vanished.
As LaGanga walked toward the north tower, smoke and dust began to fill the cerulean sky. Eventually, it blotted out the sun. On the street near the remaining tower, New York City looked unrecognizable, all hazy and monochromatic. A thick layer of dust and soot caked every surface and dampened the sound of building alarms.
LaGrange turned his camera upward to film the north tower, smoldering and stark against a bright blue sky.
Minutes later, it too would collapse. LaGanga's camera kept rolling.
"It sounded like a jet flying over," he says. "That's why I panned up."
As the building fell in on itself, people sprinted down the street, panicked. An ensuing wave of smoke and dust engulfed LaGanga's lens, and the screen turned black. Several minutes elapsed. Finally, he coughed.
"Boy, that was close," a voice said in the dark.
LaGrange returned to film the rescue and recovery at ground zero for a week after the attack. Remarkably, he says he's experienced no adverse health effects as a result of his time on the site.
Since then, LaGanga has continued working as a photojournalist, most recently for 60 Minutes.
"At the end of the day, what we're trying to do is capture real moments," he says. "So you just kind of follow and try not to get in anyone's way. But document real moments of what's going on."
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