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All photography
© Sylvie Ball
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At 8:53 AM on September 11, 2001 a friend called to tell me that
"a plane had hit the World Trade Center." Skeptical at
first, I looked out my window and saw the sinister, smoking black hole
where an airliner had completely penetrated the north facade of Tower
1. I grabbed a radio and a camera and stood on my window sill and
got ready to start shooting, when the phone rang again. At 9:03 my
friend called back and during this call I eye witnessed the second plane
cataclysmically hit Tower 2 and watched a huge flame ball roar through
the tower. "Oh my God" were the words I
repeated. What was happening? I didn't see the plane enter,
just flames emerging from the north and west sides of Tower 2. At
9:03:30 I hung up and took this first picture looking south. Tower 1 is on
the right, Tower 2 is on the left.
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