394263 01: (PUERTO RICO OUT) An explosion rocks one of the World Trade Center Towers crumbled down after a plane hit the building. Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora,Image: 608583357, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no
September 11, 2001, New York, New York, USA: Islamist terrorists attack the World Trade Center by flying two hijacked jetliners into the twin towers, causing them to collapse. Nearly 3,000 people died and hundreds were wounded in the attack and the subsequent collapse of the towers after burning jet fuel weakened the buildings' structure.///A man gazes at the debris in Church Street after the first tower collapse..,Image: 95654701, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no
September 11, 2001, New York, NY, USA: Deputy U.S.Marshal DOMINIC GUADAGNOLI, 32, top, and medical personnel talk to DONNA SPERA, 36 who was in the crowded 78th floor elevator lobby of the South Tower when the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 flew into the WTC, a Lower Manhattan building, Tuesday September 11th, 2001. It was the deadliest place in the south tower. About one-third of the 611 people who perished in the building died there. Just 12 people including Donna who were in the elevator lobby when the second jet hit escaped before the South Tower collapsed 56 minutes later. Donna, an administrative assistant for AON Financial Services, an insurance brokerage with offices in the World Trade Center.,Image: 93350652, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Pictured: Guadagnoli Dominic,Spera Donna