Friday, September 4, 2026

A Day Escaping the World Trade Center, 2001

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers seized four commercial airliners in a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States. At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the South Tower between floors 77 and 85." . . .Doug Ross

"Date/Time and Location: 8:46 a.m., 81st floor, South Tower — the moment the North Tower is struck."


A Day Escaping the World Trade Center, 2001 | Opinion - Conservative | Before It's News

Stanley Praimnath, a 45-year-old loan officer for Fuji Bank, sat at his desk on the 81st floor of the South Tower—directly in the impact zone. What happened over the next thirty minutes became one of the most improbable survival stories in American history

Each World Trade Center tower consisted of 110 floors. Each floor has a story. In this two-hour special, survivors from two of those floors, many speaking publicly for the first time, tell their stories. See more in this special, "9/11: Escape From the Towers."



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