World Trade Center Attack From Empire State Building, 11 September 2001

[Synthstrumental]

The military industrial complex had pretty decent CGI back in 2001, huh

[TylorDeal]

pause at 0:28, you see that little glittering speck? yeah, that's the plane.. fuck off Conspiracy Theorists.

[cam9408]

In a way they are lucky it was only the WTC towers and not something as special as the empire state building. But still very sad to see them go!

[admx94]

sad day, Move on, but never forget.

[r3poser]

they going attack EPS

[DeathCountRises]

I watched the 2nd plane hit from a local highway and watched the buildings fall from the roof of my Bronx home. I was 18 at the time and still remain just as angry as i was that day.

I dont understand how you could stay in or on top of the empire state building while planes are flying into buildings.

[RandomSnowMonster]

every 11 years something big happens. that happed 2001... next attack is 2012

[kidkong584]

I personally would be running if i was in the empire state building on 9/11. This day was scary though. I remember being sent home early because I live close to Shanksville.

[1legomaster]

The ESB was evacuated a little bit after the Sears tower was. It was just the Sears tower is a bigger building so they thought it would be a good next target for the terriosts.

[misterbonzai08]

The reality of it is this, either:

a) it was an inside job where rogue elements in the CIA/Mossad brought the towers down (in which case the NIST report needs to be re-examined) or

b) there were some seriously angry people out there that saw fit to create a scenario of mass murder (in which case foreign policy needs to be evaluated, as does the complete failure of security).

[WetPooooopie]

This is retarded, this whole scene is sick

[OzZyFaN007]

SLAAAAYYYEEEERRR!!!!!!

[hockeykid30b]

terrorists think their soooo smart and what their doing is right. HOW COULD THEY THINK THAT WHEN THEYRE MAKING THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST FALL APART ASWELL AS AMERICAS! DO KNOW HOW MUCH $ HAS BEEN PUT IN INTO ENDING THIS CRAP!! TOO MUCH!! FUCKING TERRORISTS!! KILL BIN LADEN!!

[IzNGra]

More shocking imagery is to be found here:

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[tusmorninginsept911]

The parachute was originally invented to escape from highrise buildings in the case of emergencies.

[pokemonmasterBryan]

r.i.p. to all poor people who lost their lives

[acenace24]

todzilla why dont u get a fucking job? ur probably like all 9/11 conspiracy theorists....lazy good for nothing assholes who want money

[StanKyBreaThCA]

STUPID TERRIOSTS

[sargent459]

I agree wit u totally

[ashbrauw]

if they did opt for the death why didn't they hit the tower at the lowest level, and secure that no one can escape the building so to cause more deaths???

[TheAngryarchangel]

@ashbrauw that is the question.

[Craz3dGamerMonkey]

Just to think that it werent only the buildings and the planes that melted, it was the workers.

[AVIATIO]

Fucking islamofashist bastards.

[proeatr16]

Let us the U.S.A rebuild the WTC like it was before to honor those whom died. I loved the U.S.A till the towel head attacked us. Fuck them and make the new one 81 floors higher. Or till it's the tallest building made in the World.

[TheC4nadian]

i bet its 100% safe standing on this building just watching the veiw even though you just sit there and watch

[epicdred]

You can tell whoever was taking these pics got the fuck outa the ESB after the second plane hit.

[niallerz9693]

dat was prob scary being up dat high in the empire state and all the skyscrapers gettin targeted

[billytc1]

them terrorist b*stards!!!!

[OzzybanOswald]

"Terrible". "Awful"...

Drop the shill tactics scumbag. You and your insider propaganda site.

This is a total crock of shit. These are fake images just like the rest full of scary faces and cloned duplicates.

[tsonrocks1996]

I am from Scotland and even I am pissed off with the terrorists

[RJLxboxlive09]

i live like 50 miles away and i was 6 and my school got evacted

[Commentie]

Empire State building is surpassed by the World Trade Center.. if only they still stood there proudly with the Empire State building nearby.

[Cripto3333]

The Sears tower in Chicago got evacuated during 9/11. I can't believe they didn't evacuate the Empire State Building and it's in the SAME CITY as the WTC, crazy!!!

[barricadefan]

@Cripto3333 the WTC is in New York

or is a WTC in Chicago???

[sshers1]

@Cripto3333 you think they going to attack ESB?

[MSkin1010]

@Cripto3333 read the description...after the second plane hit evacuation was ordered right away.

[Omniscientus]

@Cripto3333 It's because it was planned.

[AccessDenied55]

@Cripto3333 Actually it did, about 3-5 Times.....Pretty much every skyscraper in the United States was closed that day.

[Drake9016]

@Cripto3333 its because the empire state building i think really isnt a business place more like a hotel or apartments something like that maybe i might be wrong though

[Cnthia09]

Weren't you scared.. :|

I would be, when i was on the ESB

during the attack

[Cryptome1]

That macabre death wish desire is especially virulent at the WTC reconstruction site, thanks to heavy media recycling of the terrible images. In the early years, WTC managers avoided any sign of the attack and hid the debris with fanciaful renderings of the reconstruction. Now at WTC the posters blare the gruesome event for gawkers to grimace at with toxic hot dogs, the evidence of utter national security failure subsumed in the vengeful wars in South Asia.

[malmswax]

Damn...I could not have said this any better...the entire culture surrounding this site has taken on a gruesome feel and appearance.

JB (An ex-Brooklyn Heights & East Village resident)

[Cryptome1]

Added note:

And tourists jam ESB, putting up with heavy security--screening, being photographed, and surveilled by uniformed and undercover guards and video-taped throughout the visit. Death wish tourism, which can be enjoyed in a slew of targeted cities around the world where pigs in shorts relish the evidence of carnage.

[Cryptome1]

Fear of being in another target came later, after it was understood what had happened at WTC. At first, nobody thought it was an attack, instead an awful accident. Then, confidential news of WTC being a likely attack came to the Empire State Building management, that it could be a target, and the building was evacuated. Now ESB is a prime target, but for who knows what blind faith, many of the tenants have remained, including the taker of these photos.

[smygfis18]

u wasnt afraid if the terrorist would had attack empire xD ?

[203207ab]

I was working at a reinsurance company back in 1998. I was laughed at for mentioning that I was amazed that the letter head I was typing and mailing every week or so was going all the way up to those towers above the 80th floor from where I was. Go screw yourselves former coworkers and the stupid so called truthers who would have joined in on the laughing at me for being amazed at that time.

[keyboardkat71]

Looks like the Empire state building rules the the skyline again until freedom tower pops up out of ground zero.

[Cryptome1]

Cryptome replies:

To todzilla73, correct. the Empire State building was hit in the 1940s by an Army Air Force B-26, I think it was. Check Google. Empire State has a much more substantial structural system than the towers.

To 911PersonalityCult: Sorry, the photos are not digital fakes. The EXIF data match the date and time of the attack from

2001:09.11:08.59:22 for the first photo to

2001:09.11:09.15:58 for the last.

True, EXIF data can be faked but not in this case.

[alexrm82]

ESB was hit in 1945 by a B-25.

If it was hit by the same Boeing 767s that destroyed WTC it probably would have cutted in 2 parts, or collapsed instantly.

Despite the tragic final, the Twin Towers were structurally stronger than Empire State Building, able to resist to hurricanes and earthquakes, and were the first buildings in the world projected to absorb the impact (I underline: only the impact) of a commercial airplane. Infact, they didn't fall instantly,,,

[911PersonalityCult]

Digital fakes from the military MSM pool of fakes.

[todzilla73]

The Empire State was hit by a plane

[Mrforthoseabout2rock]

@todzilla73 that was in 1945 from an B-25 BY ACCIDENT cause of the visibility

[todzilla73]

@Mrforthoseabout2rock I noticed TWO planes hit TWO buildings and THREE buildings fell. ummmmm

[Mrforthoseabout2rock]

@todzilla73 WTC building 7 fell due to the burning debris of the North Tower

[todzilla73]

@Mrforthoseabout2rock  Now thats how it fell? Debris brings Building #7 straight down at free fall speed?

[dangerouslytalented]

No wonder people do not come out with their photos of the incident. The truthers come out with their accusations every time they do. There are probably hundreds more pictures out there, but if people do publish them, all of a sudden hundreds of nutjobs are stalking them, accusing them of complicity in the first atrocity of the 21st century.

[911PersonalityCult]

More fakes from another fraud.

[paul14075]

can she confirm what she heard sounded like a plane, or more like a high-pitched missile-like sound? a plane travelling at 400+ MPH at 400 meters and a missile are likely to sound like 2 very different things.

[Cryptome1]

Yes, still photos, not screen grabs, and never released, provided to Cryptome for its series documenting WTC ever so slowly reconstruction and mistreatment of gawking crowds by officials who are determined to hide their security negligence by sacralizing the disaster with bizarre monumentalism.

[Cryptome1]

Cryptome answers:

She heard the plane as it passed over but did not see it. All photos taken from inside a window on the office's high floor. Tilting due to shocked camera work. At that time it was suspected the Empire State building could be a target that day. And it is still at risk, from aircraft or from a lethal visitor. Tourists now go through strict security checks: ID'd, inspected and photographed, and videoed and cop-watched while on the observation platforms.

[muckletoon]

Thanks for reply, so each of these stills is a photograph by Deborah Gans and not screen grabs from a video? Gans has never released these photos previously it seems.

[muckletoon]

She didn't actually photograph the plane? Where did you obtain the long shot photographs from? It seems to be taken from a different angle than the close up because the tilt of the WTC seems different.