Inside Top of World Trade Center on 9/9/2001 before attack
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2011
- We were in NYC for the MTV Music awards, and the Michael Jackson TV special (at MSG). We left a couple hours after this was shot on 9/9/2001. Scary to think that less than 48 hours later- this wasn't there anymore, and all of our lives changed. Kinda surreal to see people enjoying boating and the last days of Summer below. Everything is so calm. I shot this while eating lunch with my wife at the Windows on the World restaurant in the North Tower. PROOF that this was on 9/9/01!!! superboat.com/2011/03/superboa... That is the boat race happening in the harbor on 9/9/01. You can see that in the footage.
If 9/11 never happened, this video would only have like 20 views.
+zaktatack Except for the fact that the Twin Towers were one of the tallest buildings in the world at the time, and they were extremely iconic. I'm sure if 9/11 never happened, this video wouldn't have just 20 views. I would say it would have somewhere around 9k or 10k views. Maybe more.
It wouldn't been posted.
+MyBallsYourChin that's a good one!
It WAS
SoulBrother you're not qualified to make a statement like that.
My god, and in just two fucking days people would be jumping from those very windows.
Yeah 😔
Its terrible
Actually a day and a few hours. It happened in the morning and generally speaking this couldve been the afternoon
For God sake if I saw a plane hit one tower I'd be fuck this shit I'm out ID PISS MY PANTS
spring Foxy I would 360 no scope the plane like a boss
When my parents were there my father said: "They have so small emergency stairs. What if something happens?"
_And he hasn't let us forget since_
After the 1993 bombing?
Wow. That's crazy you were there 2 days before. My cousin was in tower 1 on 9/11 when the first plane struck. He managed to get out safely thank God. My friends brother who was a firefighter unfortunately did not make it.
Hack Attack Omg I feel so sorry for your friends who lost their lives, and the same time I feel glad because your cousin left out there in time. I was in Brazil when it happened, I cried so hard watching the footages on TV, I was only 7 years od :'(
Raytown17 He was on the lower floors. I think the 23rd floor.
Hack Attack liar
May he Rest In Peace
Hack Attack rest in peace to your friend's brother. He died fighting for other's lives
i just could NOT imagine having to jump outta that
Ryan Shelby I was thinking since the windows are that big parkour down but I guess not
Aust Gaming exactly that's what I was thinking
Terrible choice indeed =(...Feel so sorry for those who had to make the choice of either chocking to death, jumping, or if they somehow were still alive, being crushed under the debris when the towers collapsed.
Ryan Shelby they shouldve equiped parachutes there so people could jumped out
Ryan Shelby I'd look at d water then close my eyes n scream
How much the world can change in 2 days...
That's why the good Ole saying goes 1 day at a time.
I think this is nothing when compared to 30th August, 1939...
More like August 6th 1945.
It was an organized terror attack.
Wow I thought I was the only one who knew , even the building structure was build in Masonic and meanings , north and south , watch towers etc
The person who took this video footage almost picked the wrong day to go. So close. Very eerie.
I don't think the restaurant was open for civilians that day
I suspect the date on the video was tampered just to get more views.
@@WNActivist88 There was a big group having a meeting there.
@@sln7839 I agree. The time stamp has been added after the video was taken. Just for views.
@@armandconiglio9620I imagine boat races occuring all the time there.
Who else is watching this video September 2018?
Lil skies Is the goat me,right now 😔
Me lol
My birthday is on 9/11
Mep
Lil skies Is the goat bro I see you everywhere
the calm before the storm. :(
also some of the people you interacted with there are probably dead now (the employees I mean)
That's what I thought
This is honestly really depressing.
breaks my heart
Jeff Dearman when you come to thy shocking realization
Was that's one of the employee at 0:54 who fell to his death on 9/11? I remember there was an article about the falling man and wonder if that's him in this video.
I’m Saudi Muslim and I feel so sorry about what happened in 9/11😢
Unfortunately 15 of the criminals hijackers were from my country
But you have to know that they don’t represent us and we disown them
All my condolences to the victims families , might they souls are rest in peace💔
It’ a horrific brutal attack and we will never forget it💔
The 3000 victims are always in our hearts and we pray for them💔😢
They actually came from Israel, had nothing to do with Muslims.
@@iknoweverything4959 I'm glad people are finally waking up and realizing that.
❤
@@iknoweverything4959 nah bro al qaeda is an extremist islam terrorist group, even if some came from israel i can assure you most if not all of them are not
I send you hugs.
As a life-long Waiter, it breaks my heart seeing some of the "Windows on the World" staff walking around, not knowing some of them wouldn't live to see the next week. There was a banquet event on the morning of the 11th, I heard some even swapped shifts to work another day. Being in the north tower, they suffered horrific conditions and absolutely no chance of escape.
Well the person who was on the highest floor and survived was on the 87th to 89th floor I believe, I don't know, so that means that anybody who was there at that time and day died which is not good for those employees
@@petermmm42 that might’ve been in the south tower since even after the plane hit, one of the stairwells in the south tower was still intact, allowing people above to escape, but for the north tower all the elevator’s, stairs and floors in the impact area where destroyed
@@petermmm42 How did that person survive?!
yea i think it was@@Siromuse
There is a documentary about the 88th floor. I only saw a small clip but they even helped saving a few people from 89th breaking a door or a wall. And It was in the Tower the first plane hit
0:40 such a long way down to the ground. Horrible to think that less than 48 hours later, people would have to look down and jump from that high up. Probably many of the staff who were there two days before, would've also been there on that morning, 9/11.
Two days before, and no one knew what would happen later that week.
I was thinking the same. I get nauseous just looking out those windows. I can't imagine the terror that those people must have felt when making that choice to jump. And to think people were on both roofs when they collapsed.
the falling man picture and documentary is about a cook or dishwasher that worked there. luckily most staff wasnt in yet but there were a few that possibly jumped from this window we are looking from
Brett Graham he was a sound engineer at that restaurant.
Edward James I was wondering I’m from England I thought it was 2 months away
Looking down at the height some of those people on 9/11 jumped is chilling.
I know, I just can't imagine...horrible...
Kiity Kat well I guess you can't chill and think how your life went while falling 200mph
Kiity Kat If the tower was bigger there would have been a bigger dust cloud that more people would breathe in and choke. Sticking to the original size
@@raymondbauer2152 9.8M a second times second equals fall speed acceleration
My uncle died in 9/11 he was only 23 years old he knew he couldn't escape so he jumped off he was on floor 102 if he would have gone 2 more stories he would have been at the very top, my mom told me he was a great guy and told my mom he would bring her back 4 postcards for her birthday that never happened.......
Natalie Rivera wow, I’m really sorry to hear that.
I'm sorry for your lost kiddo rip
that's really sad man
Bendy The Ink Demon Oh, I guess you hate Americans. Don’t watch this then, dumbass.
@@fluffchilla1317 im Hispanic. Dude its a joke lol XD
Who would have imagined that 2 days later, our world and existence as we were so used to, would come to such a horrific and tragic end. May all of you innocent people who perished so violently never ever be forgotten. May your family, friends and coworkers never be forgotten. Sending continuous love ❤, prayers 🙏 and inner peace be forever lifted and embraced. We must never forget 9-11! 😢😢😢
Well I imagine the terrorists imagined what would happen 2 days later. Probably many in the government as well.
I remember watching a documentary and the people in the opposite tower were told not to leave when the first plane hit. To just continue working everything would be okay. So many people in the second tower could have lived if not for greedy bosses
(Google Translate) Just these people still do not really understand what happened. They thought that this is only an accident. They said: "Worry not worry, this problem concerns the North Tower and the South did not happen"
It's brava use there was falling debris and bodies. This has nothing to do with their bosses, imbecile.
I'd got outta there no matter what they were saying
The reason the bosses told them to stay was because the Port AAuthority gave orders for people to stay in the buildings ...which is very odd to this day ...why was that order given ....makes sense sort of but not really
booster0636 Yes. it was: "It's problem of North tower (ONLY). Don'y worry, South tower in safety". -_- OMG! In the South tower... only 18 people, who was above impact - were saved. 18/700 =( because 1 of 3 stairs - save even after plane crash. I think more people, more than 18, who was above, downstairs by burning floors... BUT... They're late. The tower collapsed.
The last hours of the old world...
RoundenBrown the old world?
:(
I wish I lived in the old world. Way better than this Shitty current time
RoundenBrown Exactly!
Yip. Nothing has truly been the same since that day
This is so crazy how all of those people were still alive in this video without knowing their life was going to end within the next couple of days, Rest In Peace 💔
Not all of the people in this video stayed there on 9/11 though. So saying all is ns
The world does not look of feel this way anymore.. I know it's an old camera, but something about the 90s and old days that were way different than today back then the world was full of mystery and magic now everything is just so boring and dull.
I think that’s partially true. I kind of feel the same, in every way. You can even feel it in something like the music as well.
Why was the world pre 9/11 so drastically different that you would describe it as " full of mystery and magic"? Do you realise how ridiculous that sounds? This is nothing but an expression of nostalgia and/or regret manifesting itself as longing.
Well it was magical to me and tons of other people,, sorry you didn't have this experience...
And btw don't try to make arguments with someones personal feelings. If you didn't feel that way so be it.
Ollie Doveton-Kaufman you need to work on not being a condescending, pretentious ass-hat. 😂
Thinking about the people who jumped off RIP.
That's what I think of now when I remember visiting the top of the South Tower in the mid 80s as a 1st grader.
Ryan Adam yeah same here. I was just looking at just how freakin far up this actually was! God, it must have been absolute HELL up there to force people to jump!
Ryan Adam them were dead already,just blown out like dst
david mcadam yea some were blown our by the initial impact but many were forced to make the hardest decision of their life whether to burn alive/suffocate or to jump to certain but faster death.. you can see in some footage that people were literally stacked on top of eachother hanging out the windows hundreds of feet in the air desparately trying to get fresh oxygen to breathe and to escape the extreme heat. Some chose to jump to escape the suffering and others slipped/lost their grip while hanging out the windows trying to get air. Such a horrible way to go...I can only imagine how horrible it was up there to be forced to hang out a window 800+ feet above the ground...I hope all the victims that day are at peace and in a better place. None of them deserved to have life cut short so suddenly and such a horrible way.. RIP to all who died that day whether they were in the towers, on the planes, or in the Pentagon as well as the 343 firefighters who died trying to save countless others.
Ryan Adam i really get sad when i think about all the people who died that day: people inside the towers, people on the planes, people who jumped because they preffered to die quickly... I hope they all rest in peace forever.
imagine jumping from that height. wow
yes insane right. but. when you can't breath and it's insanely hot. jumping is easy way out. plus they never made it to the ground. I'm pretty sure heart stopped before
+Serge Bykov heart stopped when they hit the floor
+Joe Cole That is quite a cynical to say but you do have a point! Viewing this video I cannot even comprehend how the victims must have felt....
Rovix I wasn't trying to be cynical, As a person who is scared of heights it must have been something really horrendous behind them to jump from that height.
+Joe Cole Oh ok. I'm sorry I understood it like that. My heart is with U.S.A. today. Expecially the people of NY who still suffer from trauma or lost friends and family that day. My prayers go to all of them! I am from Belgium and I take my train in the same station where the Thalys from Amsterdam to Paris stops (in Brussels). On August 22 (9/11... 8/22... coincidence???) a terrorist embarked in that very station I am every working day, but luckily he could get detained by 2 American soldiers who were coincidentically in the train!
My husband's first cousin's husband had been a Stockbroker in Cantor Fitzgerald, which was on the 104th floor of Tower 1 (I think). His kissed his lovely wife and three young daughters goodbye to go to work one morning and just NEVER. CAME. HOME. This unthinkable terrorist attack will haunt our collective memories as Americans forever.
Lisa Carvin sorry for ur loss but it’s not a fucking terrorist attack
@@xoisolate5192 Right, but as you can see still to this day little realize it... And it would be not that difficult to figure it out, would only take a few documentation... People need to wake up, or will always be easy for the govt. to sell them anything they want, even bullsxit stories.
No way 19 idiots pulled this off. No way in hell.
@@leakyjeep5.9 you want to say shes layin?
I'm a Canadian who lived in New York briefly, but I remember your opening shot and *that VIEW* so well of the Battery, the Statue of Liberty, and the sun glistening off the Harbor.. It was a beautiful, tranquil sight up high. It was one of my Favorite views in New York.. I went back to visit it often by myself over the years.. But now that unique view is only in dreams remembered.. RIP 2001, Love NYC from Toronto
I wish i could go back in time an hour before the attack and say there was a fire to get everyone out the building
Like some final destination shit
Red Underscore is that a flash reference?
I know it's fucked up, but in a way, things would be worse if 9/11 didn't happen. Ever since 9/11, Airport Security and national security as a whole has become much more advanced.
+flashbanggaming
True, but even if you got most people out of the building, the attack would still happen. The government would likely still have put more regulations in place to prevent it from happening again even if the death toll was far lower. Maybe they wouldn't have gone to war in the middle east though
Just some Gamer , seriously. No bad ever again, anywhere! Not to mention why they'd do it. And yelling fire wouldnt work.
Last hours of the 90s and the old world. So sad.
ikr
Rob J its 2001 90’s ended in like ‘99
Well, to be fair the early 00's still had that late 90's feel.
What !!!!!
Forget thr friggin 90s. More like: The birth of the new millenium, the passing of an old one. And what an event to mark it...
My uncle died there.
TUNA,NOCRUST. Sorry man
Aww I'm so sorry :(
Perfect Piggy thanks
Tyler Da Crazy thanks
TUNA,NOCRUST. So sorry for your loss.
After that the NY skyline changed forever... :(
Henriko Magnifico 💔
Do you live in NY
No shit or Thanks captain obvious
The NY skyline always changes forever.
It was replaced by a better building
My uncle was almost one of the victims of passengers on the plane (not sure which one). He's an airline stuartist and right before he went to go on the plane, him and his friend traded places/spots and he instead schedule to work on a different plane that day.. his friend died. He had survivors guilt for a long time.
D: what a sad story sorry, your uncle must be very lucky
Even celebrities escaped death, Seph MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg were supposed to be on AA 11 but they both were late and missed the plane
+Sara Johnstone I've heard some stories about people who worked in the WTC at that time, and they were running late to work the day the tragedy happened..
+xboxgamer Michael Jackson did as well
+The Salty Salt "his friend died. He had survivors guilt for a long time" - indeed.
kind of a scary feeling that the staff on that floor probably died two days later...
rembering all the poor innocent victims who tragically lost their lives 17 years ago today . you will never be forgotten 😥😥😥😥
David Lane My thoughts with all the victims of that massacre. I was 7 years old when this happened. NEVER FORGET. Greetings from Spain
David Lane remembering all the poor innocent victims that where bombed in Japan Korea vietnam Grenada Iraq Afghanistan Northern Ireland
Social destruction you must be a fucking 10 ur old !
@Jada Fears
Shut the fuck up bitch
Mom was in North tower when plane hit ( Made it out)
@Bren Williams She lost 9 co workers that day.
Thank God Amen 🤗🤗 for you and your Mom @Rick
My plastic dolly was in there when the second PLANE hit and she was melted 😬😬😬😠😠😠😫😫
My pet kangaroo made it out alive too
Kunta Kinte Are you on drugs? Don’t be an idiot
I hate the fact that I never got a chance to go to the top of the twin towers. I was 11 years old.
So your 25 now?
Grulaz GOOD JOB SWEETHART!
Well I in fact did go to the top of the South Tower on a field trip as a 1st grader back when I lived in NYC. When I tell you it was a long way down out the window, there's no BS in that statement. I could look down on the Statue of Liberty as they did here and pedestrians on the street literally looked like ants and the cars were so tiny It might have been better you never saw it. My memories of what I saw back in the mid 80s just makes seeing the footage of the jumpers that much more horrifying and saddening to me.
Me too man. I was 11 when it happened and didn't know about the twin towers until they were hit.
i remember i went to first grade in 2001 09 01 ten days before this but i didnt knew about it
Exactly 14 years after this video was shot (9/9/2015) the horrible memories of the tragedy that unfolded on 9/11 still haunts many Americans & various foriegn citizens who experienced it first hand :(
+Silvia Landron They probably couldn't sleep for weeks, months or even years heck I bet some of them still can't sleep to this day and I don't blame them. It's one thing to see it on TV or the internet but to see it in person is a whole different ball game.
My dad was on a delta airlines flight from Denver to Vancouver and got grounded over Idaho or Oregon I think.. was on a business trip and he heard about the attacks from the flight attendant on the plane.. he said he was horrified and wished he could just teleport home immediately to check if his family was safe.. couldn’t imagine being on a commercial flight that morning anywhere in North America.. must have been scary as hell 😣🫤
Now 22 years ago a couple days ago...
That height wow, imagine having to jump from there because you don't wanna get burned
I know, unbelievable.. they said it took about 10 seconds to fall all the way
Yeah. This is super high. And, all those people who came down crash into the streets in a short time...
I was at the towers around 13 days before the attacks took place. My boss was planning on meeting on the 10th, but didn’t. We moved the date to the 11th, and were planning on meeting on the 72nd floor. I got to the office around 7:42 AM, and waited. Apparently the plans were changed and we were suppose to meet 2 blocks away from the towers. So I left around 8:00 AM. I got there and in the middle of the meeting, we all heard a loud crash, and the building we were in shook. We went outside to see what all the commotion was about, and saw the that the North Tower was on fire. We headed over to the towers to help others get out. Then, another loud boom. We were on the 2nd floor and went to look out the building. The second tower was hit. We then realized this was no regular day. A bunch of people came with us to the tower. We turned to the news on, and watched. The pentagon was hit, as well as another plane crashed in near camp David. I got a call from my wife making sure I was okay, I told her everything that happened. We went back to ground zero, and then it happened. The south tower collapsed. We got into our Van and drove to as far as we could. We pulled over on an overpass, and watch the towers fall. It was the craziest day of my life. I lost one of my best friends in the world, Deborah Welsh. She wanted to travel the world. She didn’t even make her 10th flight. Realize what you have people, because in the next ten minutes it could all be gone.
I was in the building working on 9/08 and 9/10. It's scary how I was in there not knowing in less that 2 days both buildings would be completely gone. Now I'm a little bit paranoid when I go in a skyscraper.
Andrew iz boss theres more security in airports now i dont anything tragic like this will happen again
Hi Andrew, I am curious if you seen any military officials on top of the observation deck
I remember how excited I was going up the South Tower, getting pizza with my grandpa, a soda and a T-shirt. :/
love ur content, bro
My parents went in 1975 and have an old Polaroid picture of the Towers in the distance from the ferry.
A million thanks for sharing this. I worked there prior to 9/11. Not a day passes that I don't miss them and like millions of others, long to have them back.
Had you already left your job there, or were you there when it happened?
@@sallyphillips9175 I was not there, but I desperately wanted to go back home to New York and the Towers. Now I can't
@@user-kp8sx1nh1c Aww, I'm sorry!
I just need to say one thing...this guy is lucky that he is 48 hrs early
The attacks happened earlier in the morning there was no visitors at the time
The Awesome Guy I think he knows by now...
Do you think this is the real date? The date on the video doesn't look real to me and stuck over ?
No it's cgi
@@perfectlemming8394 You trying to get knocked tf out homie?
This is deeply chilling to watch, but I commend you Bo Matthews for putting this up. It is so difficult to believe that, as everyone keeps saying, these towers would become nonexistent 48 hours later.
Probably many of the servers and staff you can hear working in this video were there on that fateful Tuesday, including the Falling Man. RIP.
*A WEEK LATER ALL THIS WOULD BE TWISTED METAL AND FADED MEMORIES. LIFE IS SO CRUEL. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TODAY (WHATEVER THE TIME AND DATE) AND APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE, THOSE WHOSE EARTHLY PATH ENDED ON SEPTEMBER 11TH NEVER GOT THE CHANCE YOU HAVE NOW*
J L-S I now this has nothing to do with anything but when I saw ur profile pic scrolling down the comments I blew st it bcs I thought it was s hair on my phone
R.M.S. Titanic a week later too, pedant.
Nope
I am Calypso, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal.
I see you
if one created a time machine, i'd use to go a week before the attack to warn everyone not to go near the twin towers on 9/11
And everybody think you are crazy trust me people will not believe one random guy
i would go to the airport and smash the attakers heads in
True MrEMMOVIES but if I had evidence like pictures of the towers fallen
Christopher Grant
Then maybe because back then photoshop wasnt so advance but proboply govorment or army bust you for conspiracy.
MrEMMOVIES well more than 100 videos are on youtube about the twin towers, so im pretty sure he'd believe me. There are books about it, news articles, news recordings on it, and other stuff, plus its a time machine, i can go back before it happened and get the president to come into the time machine and take him to when it happened
I feel absolutely terrible for all the people who died in the towers. That’s just a terrifying cruel way to go
bless you for recording and sharing this, a lot of people don't know what they got till its gone
The last time we felt carefree and safe.
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@@TheKonga88 wtf xd
I was 8 years old when my parents took me and my older sister on our first (and so far ONLY) trip to NYC. It was the May before the attacks. One night, we went on a stroll through downtown and got soft pretzels. I remember all four of us sitting on a bench in front of the towers eating our pretzels, and I looked straight up the tower to try and see the top. Because I was younger, I was mesmerized by how huge they were! My sister and I tried to count as many windows as we could. Now, I will be 21 in a few months. A lot of people tell me I was too young to remember anything from 9/11... They don't get a say in what I do and don't remember! I remember seeing the towers on tv with smoke pouring out of them, students being dismissed from school, getting off the bus and having my sister yell at me to get inside the house, seeing my mom and dad cry while watching the replays of the towers collapsing, and hearing military helicopters fly over our house that night. Never forget 9/11, never forget the lives lost
Your 21!
Yep.
LexNets93 I'm happy you got the pretzels :] Your story reminded me of my own experience, when you shared the part about being sent home early from school. We're the same age but the biggest difference between us, it seems, is that I'm Canadian. I remember how frantic it was at school... Maybe not the same degree of intensity as you, but we were coming in from lunch/recess, and the kids who were able to go home for lunch, came back in quite an excited state. They were tripping over their words and practically shouting. I remember our teacher, Ms. Sillib, told them not to share the news because it could make some others upset...
I was very confused because I ate lunch at school and all of the adults were very somber all of a sudden :[ It was like somebody hit a light switch. Everybody was just sort of... going through the motions. Eventually they sent us home early and it seemed cool until I walked back to my babysitters place and saw the TV for the first time... I was properly shocked. All she said was " Oh my god " and she held her hand over her mouth for what seemed like hours, until my mum picked me up. It was a chilling silence that night, with minimal talking... Such a sad day.
Even though i wasnt born around the time, i could feel the rush in your blood on that day
So tall, man I was born in ny and never went inside...
***** 18
+Silvia Landron ridiculous comment to make. the observation deck wasn't even open. When the towers were hit, the place to buy the tickets on the bottom floor to go up there, weren't even open yet. When the first tower was hit, certainly nobody from outside was going to get in or want to get inside either building. the observation ticket booth I'm sure, never opened after the first building was hit.
+Dean Wilson ugh of course it did dont be ridiculous
first tower hit 15 minutes before the observation booth, to obtain the tickets to go up, was open. If the person at the booth had any sense at all, he wouldn't go in that booth and sell tickets to go up there. In fact, I sure if they saw the commotion outside, they wouldn't even go into the other building and start selling tickets inside the booth. They would have to be out of their mind to do that. Besides, they started evacuating after 9:03am. The second plane hit at 9:04am. The ticket booth, even if it was open, was at 9:00am. No tourist or sight seer, in their right mind would want to go up there, while the other building was on fire. I'm not going to argue with you. Look it up if you don't believe me. Name me one tourist that was up there that day that didn't make it. You won't find any because they closed the booth and prevented any tourists from going up there. Why would a tourist want to go up after seeing all the chaos, fire, etc. in the second tower? The only people in those towers were either people who worked there or the rescue and other personnel going up in the tower that was hit. Why would they want to go up, when everyone was outside watching the fire above.
+Dean Wilson Actually there were tourists inside. True, the observation deck on Tower 2 wasn't open at the time, and I agree completely with your assumption that the ticket booth would not have opened that day. Even if it had opened that day, any tourists would have had to wait in the Lobby until the observation deck opened at 9:30, well after the tower was hit by the second plane.
However, the Windows on the World restaurant, featured in this video, was OPEN at the time the first plane hit. Many people died in this restaurant. The "Falling Man" was likely an employee of the restaurant. There were tourists eating at the restaurant when the impact happened. Make no mistake there.
No way I’d work in a building that tall and not have a parachute under my desk. That should be standard training and equipment for everyone in the building. So many lives could have been saved. Just imagine thousands of parachutes opening that day as people jumped. No reason this needs to happen ever again. We have the tech to survive a jump.
Riddick tonn damn good idea. we need ppl like you as building safety engineers.
SundanceKid we have the tech. Not rocket engineering. How do we land after jumping from great heights?! Parachutes..... 👍
But it’s also a hazard for other people and is also just as dangerous
@@bn5422 I don't think it would slow the fall. Impact is gonna kill you no matter what.
@@bn5422 dafuq... It was not a 2-storey building .. Both of them had 110 floors
Thank you for sharing this because it gives us a brand new perspective in American history. I've never been to New York, always lived in a small town, and 9/11 happened when I was six years old so I had no clue of how high the buildings were. I knew they were extremely tall but I didn't have much of reference until now and seeing this made my stomach drop.
I went to Ground Zero in 2008 during my only NYC visit, and it was incredibly immense. The grass where the towers stood was still in perfect squares.
My dad told me about when he went on the South Tower observation deck in 1995. He said that it was so high up, you could see over Manhattan and the curve of the earth. Even though I never got to be up there, it comforts me that I have somebody close who did. Anybody else have stories from the towers?
iTacticalRaccoon yes, I'm from the UK. My brother visited New York for 4 days' holiday with some of his college friends in the Autumn/fall of 2000. He visited one of the WTC buildings (I'm not sure if it was WTC 1 or WTC 2 though). The only footage we have that was shot from inside the tower is my brother filming a Scottish sorta pop-folk band called Travis who were performing an acoustic set there in one of the records stores, called HMV I believe, promoting their new album. Everything looked seemingly normal there as one would expect from a building of that magnitude and opulence, a swanky, neat and high quality building. When I've re-watched the home video my brother took whilst being in NYC it's painfully sad (even from this distance so afar) to realise the whole WTC landscape and surrounding buildings were wiped out, decimated and pulverised into mere dust and twisted steel. It's just so hard to fathom the scale of the place and what the immense forces of weight and capacity do once a building gives way. RIP to all those who died on that horrific day.
Maz Klasa Thank you for sharing. That sounds really interesting.
iTacticalRaccoon I wish I had of been able to visit the towers before 2001. Unfortunately I was only 6 years old when this tragedy took place but I still remember exactly what I was doing, where I was, what I was wearing while hearing about it on the news. I just don't know what it is but i feel some sort of connection which I cannot comprehend. Feel so much empathy for the victims and their families and it makes me happy to see videos like this of before the horror took place. I hope to one day visit ground zero and the memorial.
I have a story of my honorary uncle, Karim Azari. He worked at the World Trade Center (Mizuho Bank) from 1991-1993, when he resigned after the bomb. He was terrified of going back there, but he conquered his fear and brought himself to return to work at the Twin Towers. Not a week later, 9/11 happened. He worked on floor 50 of the North Tower, so he evacuated immediately, leaving his cellphone and wallet and bringing so much as a photo of his daughter. No more than five to ten seconds after exiting the World Trade Center complex, the tower came tumbling down. He ran all the way to the other side of town, and was unable to get a taxi (he's Muslim) because he thought they would accuse him of orchestrating the attacks. Without a cell phone at hand, and with no cell reception to borrow someone else's phone, he had no way of contacting his, and my, worried family who think that he died in the collapse of the towers. He had to walk across the George Washington Bridge to get to his home in Jersey City, which he arrived in at 11 pm. He was then able to contact everyone, who were so relieved to find out he escaped alive.
yortzandat Gravity. Usually you learn about that in third grade bud.
This goes to show you how much things can change in just 48 hours...... First its all calm and quiet..... then it turns into a nightmare. RIP to all the victims.
I remember when the first plane hit the tower, we all thought that I may have been an accident! Then the second plane hit the other tower and we all knew that it wasn’t an accident, we knew it was an act of terrorism!
@Evan I'm glad you made it out if you were in 1 of the 2 buildings
Defo terrorism but inside job
The guy who filmed must have felt a particular chill watching these buildings fall knowing that he was just there two days ago.
This is weird to watch... somehow you feel what is coming :( :(
Yeah, it really does! I'm sure it's just because we know what was coming, and know that many poor people were hanging out those very windows, gasping for air and frantically gesturing and begging for help...and so many people jumped out of the windows from this incredible height. It makes me woozy just looking at the ground from this video, but to actually be there and jumping, and seeing others jumping, it's horrible. I think I would be too woozy to even eat there because of the height. I'm wondering if the very top floors like this one stayed intact and weren't burning, and the people here died from the collapse.
Anyway, I got off-topic! It's probably because we know what happened that makes it seem surreal, but it's like there's an aura of impending doom, even the water and the boats in it seem to have a have a drab pall blanketed over it...
Well that's because you know what is coming now it happened.
MartinHCollection only cos you know
I really feel sick watching this...seeing how they would've seen every second of it all unfold beneath them..till they were blinded by the smoke, anyway...must've been absolutely horrendous, the poor souls.
You filmed this on my 23rd birthday 🎂
Never forget 😢 so horrible, i was at work when it happened. Thank you for sharing the beautiful calm view. I miss Life pre 9/11
1:20 "There is a Plane,, 😮😯😯😬😬😬
That didn't aged well...
Sometimes fate just works that way. My cousin and her husband planed to go to the WTC on 9/11 in the morning after an early breakfast with friends. Due to a glitch in plans they went the day before on 9/10 instead.
Simple as that.
Holy fucking shit. Thats extremely lucky.
That was an extremely close call. Glad you and your family are okay.
My friend's grandmother had a close call in regards to 9/11 and her story is very similar to your cousin's and her husband's. Her grandmother retired after twenty years of working at Windows of the World on 9/10/2001. Her colleagues wanted to host some sort of luncheon early in the morning on the day of the attacks but they ended up having it the previous evening with over 100 people in attendance. This change in plan was the result of my friend's grandmother being committed to doing her weekly volunteer hours at a charity and shelter in Brooklyn--she never skipped her hours of community service. Like you said, fate works wonders. I don't think I could function normally if I was one of the thousands who avoided such a fate on that morning. It's haunting to even hear second-hand stories from survivors and those who could have been apart of the unfortunate statistic.
Dank951 That was extremely close and they are lucky to be alive. Hope they are not too shaken up by the tragic day the day after her retirement.
My spanish teacher was supposed to go on Flight 93 for her sister's wedding, but her sister postponed it because a fortune teller told her something horrible would happen around the day of her wedding. Fate does work wonders.
it gave me goosebumps hearing musiq soulchild start playing in the background at 1:27. i remember being 7 back in 2001 hearing that song on the radio. it just makes this all seem like yesterday and shows how recent this event was smh. it almost made me tear up thinking about the people working in the towers just enjoying their lives probably making plans to go out and see friends and family and enjoy their weekends after work on the friday of 9/11 not knowing what their fate was going to be in less than 48 hours. rip to everyone that lost their life on 9/11.
I was trying to figure out which r&b song it was because I remembered hearing as a child. I just could'nt figure out the words to search up the lyrics. I also heard Tamia's song stranger in my house in the beginning. Now when I hear those songs ill always think of this video.
9/11 was a Tuesday
james flaunders I was 7 also, i remember when it happened while i was at school and everybody in the school were watching it on TV, I'll never forget that feeling i had...a mixture of sadness, fear, paranoia. That day will never be forgotten. To recycle what someone else said in the comment section..."This was the end of the old world", nothing was the same after that day.
It was Tuesday 9/11.
So this was a Sunday in the vid
I was 7 too
1:28 “Just Friends” by Musiq
Such a powerful, innocent video.
Wow I remember that song first came out 😭
At first I was skeptical but I remember there was a boat race on 9/9/01 and this proves it
In March 2001 I was 5-Years-Old. My parents had gained access to the rooftop of the world trade centre. They took me to the top. My dad lifted me up (kept me about 2 feet behind the edge). It was so freaking high, i can't even explain it. Its so weird to think of that today. Very fortunate that we didn't go there 5-6 months later
1:45 Imagine that exactly 2 days after you're sitting there having food, and then you see a plane directly there in the distance.. "Look at that plane" you say to your friend. "That's getting really close to us haha"
Then the plane smashes right into you.
You're profile pic is awesome
HULK HOGAN you need help
Its chilling
HULK RUNNIN WILD NIGGA HOGAN WTF 😂😂 chill out
It's eerie,who would've thought that three months ago, HULK RUNNIN WILD NIGGA HOGAN,would say those ''chilling''words?--HAHAHAHA!
Out of all the deaths on 9/11 there is something so much more disturbing (in my opinion) about the deaths on windows on the world restaurant.
I love going out for breakfast. There is something so juxtaposed about the happiness of a simple breakfast, going out with friends and family, just enjoying a meal on a beautiful morning. And then suddenly...
I sometimes think "what about the people there who just randomly decided to eat there that day?" They could have saved their life with something so simply as choosing a different breakfast location or eating at home. Something about it haunted me and I tried to find the names of customers who died that day, simply because of choice of meal. The ones who worked on a lower level, who would have otherwise lived but died due to a simple and seemingly irrelevant decision. One woman, Karen Lynn Seymour, normally worked on a lower floor. She decided to go that morning because she was interested in a conference occurring up there. Her boss told her it was a waste of time, that those conferences were "informericals". She went anyways.
I think of tourists and others who could have literally chosen anywhere else to eat. I imagine myself, my husband and daughter enjoying coffee and pancakes on the table. Then I imagine realizing my whole family will die because of such a random choice. People having fun and laughing on what was said to be one of the most beautiful mornings. Only to be met with the realization that they would die. After South tower fell, they probably knew nobody was coming for them. Imagine just waiting 20 minutes to die, simply because of where you chose to eat. Terrifying. Imagine the guilt and anger of those who ran the conference, knowing that they had indirectly doomed so many.
What a terrible way to die.... to have a normal healthy life and suddenly in the span of a few hour grow ever more aware of your impending mortality.
There were no tourists eating breakfast.
Watching those boats racing... made me smile. Just people enjoying life, having fun.
Man, I just couldn't imagine jumping from that height. RIP all people who died on 9/11. Never forget
It's truly unnerving to see just what an incredible height the jumpers who were trapped up in the Windows on the World restaurant fell from. Obviously, a huge amount of people jumped from similar heights, but this video really puts into perspective what the highest level some jumpers fell from and what it must felt looked like. Of course, there is absolutely no way to possibly understand the incomprehensible horror those poor people went through, but this at least gives us some perspective.
If I had been there, I probably would have jumped, too. The idea of being burned alive is horrifying. At least with jumping out, death came quickly.
@@sallyphillips9175 I think if you stayed inside you would die from smoke inhalation before your body burns. If so i much rather die like that than free falling 300 meters into concrete.
Exactly My thoughts. 🕊♥️
@@sallyphillips9175 inhaling the thick smoke would of caused a quicker more comfortable death from Co2 poisoning
Yeah, but they weren't the brightest bunch either. No parachuted in those buildings. No waiting for firefighters. No trying to put out flames. Even if they couldn't have done any of that, climbing upward would have been the best route (pun intended).
*Top 10 Most Haunting Videos Taken Before Disaster*
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Thanks for this... We were so carefree, still, including being able to walk with Loved ones up to the gate to board an airplane. Imagine falling from that distance. Imagine almost everything in that restaurant practically vanishing into DUST - the seats, music system, everything. Makes me mad just thinking about it all.
I always wanted to go on top of the World Trade Center after watching Home Alone 2 when I was younger.
And then 9 years later you are like well screw that
wow just 2 days before it happened.......so sad
+Vlad Dracula whatever weirdo, innocent people died that day. what the hell is wrong with u??
I was on the observation deck on 9/1/01. Took a family pic of about 15 of us in the lobby and a bunch outside. Hung out got coffee and walked around for a few hours. I was in complete disbelief 10 days later. I still think about it all the time. I play back the day in my head like a series of clips and memories. I remember that day better than any other day in my life other than the day my son was born.
I interviewed in that building back in 1996. It was an amazing view. You could practically see the curvature of the earth. You could also feel the building sway a tiny bit from the winds from that height (purposely built that way for that reason). I didn’t get the job, but I loved those buildings, used to take the subway to them for years.
Can still see the ground floor with all the stores and restaurants in my head, from all the times I went through the building. Miss them. Thanks for this video.
Lucky you did not get the job perhaps?
and people had to jump.
holy fuck.
I get so scared watching the other tower it's scary so high
+corkytheporker When faced with the prospect of burning to death from burning jet fuel or jumping, I'm jumping. It's painless
I know. I was only 9 when 9/11 happened, but it absolutely horrified me, because from the time I was really little, I'd always been really afraid of fire and I'd always had this fear of being trapped up in a tall building that's on fire. I actually thought about what I might do if that ever happened to me, and I decided I'd jump because that would be less painful that dying from smoke or fire. But falling to your death obviously seems really terrifying too so I just hoped I'd never be in such a situation. Then when 9/11 happened and I saw the news coverage on TV, I saw all those people living my worst nightmare :(
Haunting.....
I’ve been up there twice, the second time being in 1998. I loved having the ability to sit on the ledge of the window and just stare at the amazing view. I also worked in Manhattan the day they were struck. It was complete disbelief and the city was in lock down mode. Normally my shift ended at 4:00 PM but I did get out until 10:00 and only due to my job was I allowed access to the highways. Taking the Throgs Neck Bridge, I found myself extremely upset that our beloved towers were no longer visible. Plus, I knew people that worked there and lost many others from volunteering their services. Although I have become used to the Freedom Tower, the Twin Towers will forever stand in my heart.
My mom died on that faithful day, she was on the 88th floor when the territory attack happened.. R.I.P to my mom ;(
Stop lying
@@tactical_ghost199 nigga why tf would I be lying. word on my dead’s
RIP
My uncle actually worked in the towers and had a day off the day the towers felled. We were very lucky it's very sad to the unfortunate ones
FELLED????
What a tragedy that day was. I still remember waking up that day to go to school and seeing it in the news. I couldn't believe my eyes.
Me too Louie.. Just heartbreaking.
Me too. I remember exactly where I was and I saw the second plane hit the south tower on tv. I ran screaming and I called my mom
Yet the conspiracy theories say a plane can't get through the outside beams. I mean seriously. 0.55 and a plane can't get through those beams? A car could probably make it through those.
Conspiracy people are so funny.
Talking about CGI and fake actors, actually gives you a pretty good few laughs.
Gorillaz, Green Day Acapellas, Instrumentals,Live Really?...how are you enjoying the New Normal?
Bro two days before 9/11. You picked the right day to go to World Trade Center. You got lucky.
a friend I met online disappeared when 911 happened, along with 2 of his 3 kids...he worked in a restaurant in the world Trade Centre...was this the only 1? I've got a sick feeling this was the place he was the manager of...he was there briefly on this particular day before getting ready to go to the Michael Jackson Anniversary concert at MSG the next day..the 10th..spoke to him briefly after that for the last time..he and 2 of his kids were never heard from again. ;(
The youngest person to die at the WTC was 18...
iTacticalRaccoon I live in Australia so I don't know the exact situation...it may have been at the base of the twin towers nearby somehow....my friends partner mentioned something about them splitting while 1 went to the Virgin music store and the other stayed behind but yeah...either way, no matter who went where, my friend and 2 of the kids weren't seen again. they could've gotten out and lost in the mess of ash and smoke, trying to find his partner with their youngest kid while the partner did the same and crossed paths without knowing it...hit and killed by something...we just don't know...but they may not have been in the actual building itself.
Julie Windsor keep searching for them! If you know there names don't give up. Even usernames or email addresses, you could try and contact their email providers to look at their accounts (I know its 16 years later but still) to find out info about him
Oh im so sorry but i got to pull it
Incredible footage. You guys were lucky.
1:46 OMG! I used to hear that song by Musiq Soulchild in 3rd grade. This is the true authenticity of the early 2000s era. It's almost like watching the Titanic and seeing how everything is just trapped in time and nostalgia. RIP to the victims of the restaurant. ❤🕊️
Yes, this and “There’s a Stranger in my House” 🎵🎶🎼… music of that time. 💔❤️🩹
I was 9 during this time.
we were so carefree for two more days.
what a happy and joyful place to visit, the mood was positive, everything so nice, just no different from the average day in NYC.... little did they know, they were getting ready for this attack, 2 days from when this video was filmed, little did they know, these towers Will no longer exist, 72 hrs from when this video was filmed. No one would've even had the slightest though about a 757 crashing into this building at 400 mph.... 72 hrs from wen this was filmed... this shit is literally fucked up😢
Ryan Ryan Boeing 767*
Ryan Ryan 48 hours. Not 72.
*412 mph not 400
Pedant not pendant.
Ryan Ryan just because you sprinkle commas around a run on sentence doesn't mean that it's a correct sentence.
9/11 was a day I wish never happened. I was living on the west coast and that day I was starting a new job at Albertsons. I was in bed asleep when my phone rang waking me up. It was a few minutes to 6am and I answered it. It was an old friend calling me and the first thing she said to me was, "Are you nervous?" So I was thinking she meant about going in to my first day of a job so I said, "No" very nonchalantly. Then she asked if I knew what was going on and told her I didn't and asked why. She said America was under attack and told me to turn on the t.v.. Couldn't believe I was seeing this. I still had to go in but I wanted Albertsons to not open their new store out of respect for what was going on but they didn't. Then I wanted them to at least announce what was going on and say prayers for those people but all they muster was having a moment of silence. I was disappointed at the lack of caring. I guess opening a new location took precedence over what was going on and the loss of life. I'm just weird maybe. When something tragic happens, it effects me and I want the world to stop, but that's me.
its weird to think that people where so calm on this photo and that 2 days later a tragedy would happen in the same spot that would change their lives and familys forever.
I was as Windows to the world (110th floor, South Tower) a day before this footage was taken. I still have my ticket in my drawer.
No its the north tower
I remember the 11th. I was in 6th grade at Hudson River Middle, like, 4 blocks away. Most of our parents worked in the towers somewhere past the WTC, in Lower Manhattan, so we were literally forced to walk through the rubble to find our parents. Of course, we were directed away from the whole zone, the next street down. That was before the towers came down. A friend of mine, Andrew, and I ran into a small cafe, as the cloud enclosed us, so we were already covered in dust and debris, whatever you'd like to call it. A little old lady owned the place, so she quickly pulled us both behind the counter, and started giving us water to wash away what ever dust had gotten in out mouths. I guess the adults dining there stood in awe as two 12 year olds wandered in, covered in the debris from America's worst day, and they're just drinking coffee and watching TV's of what is happening less than a block away.
I love your movie, it’s beautiful. If it just would be there, i would want to see it too. So people can see how it was - just before the 9/11! R.I.P to ALL these people, family members, who died 2 days later exactly there! And I’m SO sorry for the other family members who lost their friends and family! It’s hard to realize, what happened after this video!
I was up ther shortly before too at the end of August. My friend's son wanted to go up top. I'm glad I got that final experience. God bless all the families destroyed that day. ❤
Wow!! This video shows how high they really were. That view down is scary.
+Random Person is there any picture of any person that jumped the tower?
+Random Person wow I don't want se more! but some firemen said what happened with that guys jumped! they said that there were a lot of parts of people for everywhere! it's sad! 😭
+Random Person not to say personal things but I'm 11 and my mom almost died because she had a meeting thankfully she canceled it and survived
Its tall girl, the word is - tall! Its people, who get high! Lol buildings can only be tall!...
Growing up in New Jersey, about an hour outside of NYC, all my life, I remember visiting the WTC towers with my family during the 90s. I remember going up to the observation deck of the towers. I have pictures of me standing inside one of the top floors looking out of the windows. When this happened, I was 15 and in high school.
My cousin, who worked in a building nearby at the time, had sent someone to one of the buildings to get coffee. Unfortunately, they never came back to their work place and now my cousin has eternal guilt about it...
That's so sad. So sorry for your cousin he wasn't to know x
I love that they were listening to”Just Chill” ❤ so sad
I went to the new 1 World Trade Center on June 10, 2016 and it was a nice experience but also surreal. I mean, I was at pretty much the exact same height and area as this video in the North Tower (the original 1 WTC) and I saw the exact same view as this (it was beautiful day and view). As I looked out the window, I was just imagining what if I was one of the people that jumped from the Twin Towers on 9/11. Damn. Never Forget.