"Plane coming towards me"

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This guy is also interviewed on the national geographic series that just aired about 9/11

👍︎︎ 18 👤︎︎ u/MindOfJigsaw 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

Holy shit, this is incredible.

👍︎︎ 14 👤︎︎ u/Syngeon4 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

What the fuck. 20 years later I hear or see something new and think "this shit is fucking nuts."

👍︎︎ 13 👤︎︎ u/christopherDdouglas 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

From the thumbnail I was wondering what Richard Dawkins was doing there

👍︎︎ 20 👤︎︎ u/Fartmatic 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

If anyone wants to learn more about the attacks but finds it too difficult to watch the actual videos, here is a short animation that covers the subject - Escape From New York: Getting Out of the City on 9/11

👍︎︎ 16 👤︎︎ u/ScreamingVegetable 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

A miracle he is alive, a hugh 767 jetliner weighing tons created a fireball.

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/benperon 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

If you haven't seen "Worth" on Netflix then check it out. It's a tear jerker.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/Bowdirt 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies

It’s weird seeing these faces and having them being so recognizable.

Is it the Nat Geo special “as it happened” or something?

I feel like I’ve watched it through once or twice a year since it came out 10-15 years ago.

These stories were super impactful. Also the cameraman who just walked around shooting. And he never said a word until the person was leaving and he asked their name. So surreal.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/MikeyFED 📅︎︎ Sep 06 2021 🗫︎ replies
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The doors open up, and I'm about to leave— get out of the elevator, that is— and the security guard says, "Where you going?" I said, "Well, I'm going home." "No, your building is safe and secure. Go back to your office." The doors are closing. Nobody's coming out of the elevator. And Manny Gomez is holding on to one side of the door, Jack Andreacchio on the other side of the door. "Come on, Stan the man. You're not scared to go back up." And I'm still not sure why I should be scared up to this point. Had I known that a plane had hit the first building, I would never have gone back. I step back in that elevator. The doors close and I'm looking at all these faces. We'd all just smile, not realizing it's the last smile I would ever have. Then we just went back up. Got out at the 78th floor, walked across, took the local elevator, went back to the 81st floor. One man stepped out in front of me. The man had forgotten his laptop, and he's going back to get it. He walks into the men's room. Never seen the man again. I walk back into the office. I'm standing up. The phone is ringing. A young lady from Chicago. "Stan, get out." "Get out for what?" "Stan, we don't have the time. Please, Stan. Please, get out. Get out." And I'm still not sure why. "Stan, you're not locked at the computer. "You're not watching the monitor. Go, Stan. Go, go, go." And assuring her that, "Look, I'm fine. You've got to tell me why, then I'll go." I'm standing up looking, and somehow or the other I just looked towards the Statue of Liberty, that direction. And what I saw is a giant plane coming towards me, eye-level eye contact. So fast, this is happening. And your mind is going so fast. And all I can remember doing is, "Lord, I can't do this. You take over." And I can still in my head now hear that sound, that revving sound this engine is making as this plane is coming towards me. Last minute before I dove under the desk, I saw the plane starts tilting. And the next thing I know, the bottom wing took out from maybe the 79th to the 82nd floor, the four floors we occupy. And I'm in that big orange glow. Upon impact, the floor above me collapsed. Looks like a giant wrecking ball came and ripped the entire place apart. Looks like somebody took a giant bag of cement, just threw it in the air. A huge chunk of the plane is stuck in the office doorway, probably 20 feet from where I was under the desk. The only desk that stood firm was the one that I'm hiding under. Everything else was totally demolished. All the cables that are hanging in the ceiling drop. The sprinkler system came on. And you can see the blue sparks. And one way or the other, I'm going to die. And I'm screaming, "Lord, I don't want to die. Please send somebody, anybody, to help me." And that first time I scream, I'm poking my head out from under the desk, trying to push the debris more, more, more. Somebody heard that scream on the other end of the floor. And I'm saying to myself, what is that chance? I couldn't hear, because I got temporarily deaf. The sound was so great it just popped my eardrum. I started to crawl. I crawled the entire length of the loans department, through the lounge, the computer room, communication room, and that's the farthest I could've got. And as I got closer, I can hear that sound. The person's saying, "Bang on the wall! I'll know where you are!" Knocked on the wall, and the person said, "Well, now you've got to climb over the wall." Hollow ceiling. About 10 feet sheetrock wall— drywall, that is. I can't do it. He said, "You've got to think about your family. Got to do it." I tried to jump on, grab on, on top for the first time. Missed, and part of the hanging loose sheetrock caved in, and I did like this. And a black sheetrock screw just went in, got stuck on the other side. The person said, "What happened?" I said, "A nail went through my palm." "Bite it out. Try again. Can do it. Is it attached to a piece of wood?" "Yes." "Hit the wood. "The nail is going to come off. Try again. I'll catch you on the other side." Up he jumped, and I grabbed him up and over the wall. All the rest of that story is right, although he missed the part where he gave me a big kiss. And he said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" We dug our way through rubble to about the 74th floor. And see, these are the details that this man seems to forget— understandably. I mean, he saw a plane explosion. I knew I was fine the whole time. And then we got down, ran to Trinity Church. That's where Stanley stopped, full turn around, and said, "I think that tower's coming down." And that's when I, with my engineering degree, said, "There's no way. That's a steel structure." And then wiggle, wiggle, boom. And we ran to 42 Broadway. And that's where the wave of smoke caught up to us, that's where we got to know each other, and we were able to stay in contact ever since.
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Channel: 9/11 Tribute Museum
Views: 880,714
Rating: 4.9375 out of 5
Keywords: 9/11, surviving, survivors, September 11th, 2001, terror, attack, World Trade Center, trauma, overcoming obstacles
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Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)
Published: Thu Feb 26 2015
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