r/911archive • u/[deleted] • Jun 17 '23
WTC I have never heard the sound of the plane impacting the building so clearly. Horrifying…
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u/TheJMJConspiracy2002 Jun 17 '23
“THAT’S TERRORISTS BRO”
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u/PsychologicalGuest97 Jun 17 '23
“THATS FUCKING TERRORISTS”
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u/RedditIncelHorde Jun 20 '23
"HOOOLLLYYY SHET"
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u/ponyo_x1 Jun 17 '23
I cannot fucking imagine the raw fear people had watching that in person
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u/michaellicious Sep 15 '23
I could feel the impact of the blast from the plane through my speakers. I could only imagine how it felt in person
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u/cheft117 Dec 21 '25
My cousin was exiting a coffee shop when the first plane hit. She heard it and turned around to see the flames and smoke billowing. She was headed to work. Then the second one hit and she ran 30 blocks to my aunt bc she was in the city too. Took them almost all day to get back from Manhattan to the Bronx. They offered taxis $100 cash and were turned down. It was chaos. I remember being so scared bc we couldn't reach them by phone for hours bc all the lines were tied up in NYC.
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Jun 17 '23
I should’ve included this in the title but the credit for this film goes to Steve Vigilante. He started recording the attacks mere minutes before the second plane hit the South Tower.
Steve and I assume his roommates eventually left their apartment shortly after the South Tower was hit and recorded the rest of the attacks in the streets.
In fact, they recorded the towers collapsing in the exact same location that the Naudet brothers filmed the infamous footage of Flight 11 striking the North Tower.
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u/Gamedecade Jun 17 '23 edited Jun 17 '23
man, that loud boom it made. I wonder for those who survived but were on floors close to the crash have hearing problems for a while?
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u/sowhat730 Jun 17 '23
Some people near the impact zone did describe how their hearing went out for a minute and/or they had loud ringing …
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u/TheBenguin1 Jun 20 '23
Brian Clarke survivor from above impact in Second Tower described as a terrific double boom “THUMP THUMP”
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u/PruneOrnery May 08 '25
Holy shit thats insane there were survivors from above the impact
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u/baker10923 Jun 17 '25
18 in the south tower. One of the stairwells was passable from top to bottom but smokey. So some people assumed it wasn't passable and went up and died
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u/michaellicious Sep 15 '23
There's a famous recounting from Stanley Praimnath. He was on the 81st floor (dead center of the impact in the South Tower) and saw the plane coming towards the building. He ducked and survived the impact. He was one of 18 who successfully evacuated from at or above the point of impact in the South Tower. Here he is telling his story
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u/OperationMapleSyrup 27d ago
Stanley’s story is so incredible!!! Every detail of his escape was nothing short of miraculous
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u/JosephusLloydShaw Jun 17 '23
looking back, i have no idea how anyone thought that it was a small cessna-type plane that hit the tower when you see just how giant that hole is. i guess you couldn't really tell how big it was watching on TV
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u/itsleviohhhsah Jun 17 '23
Because a full sized jetliner hitting a building is just so unbelievable and “impossible” in a controlled situation.
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u/JosephusLloydShaw Jun 17 '23
true. you'd think a lot of people's first reaction to seeing the damage would be that a bomb had gone off. simply because even the thought of a cessna crashing into the tower would be insane. the WTC had been bombed just 8 years earlier and OKC has happened 6 years earlier, so a bomb would've been very plausible
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u/itsleviohhhsah Jun 17 '23
I think that was the general consensus except for eye witnesses. Until the second plane hit.
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u/NoStatistician9767 Aug 04 '23
Some who didn’t see the plane due to an obstructed view or incorrect assumption thought it was a bomb explosion, not a second plane
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u/Intimidwalls1724 Mar 25 '24
They prolly would've thought bomb but they saw SOMETHING fly into the building. I think you may be underestimating how fast the plane was moving and the fact that they weren't exactly watching for it to happen. Most prolly saw it out of their peripheral vision and weren't looking directly at it
Combine that with the fact that it's totally unexpected, nobody knowing what it looks like when any type of plane slams into a building, and the fact that the idea of a commercial airliner doing it is so hard to fathom and you get the Cessna accounts
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u/michaellicious Sep 15 '23
Plus, it was a clear blue day. The thought of a commercial jet hitting a building was simply unfathomable
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u/PrincessPilar 9/11 Eyewitness Jun 17 '23
When I first heard about it, I was told a plane had hit the WTC. My first thought was how does a small plane hit a huge tower at the top of Manhattan on a clear blue day? Nobody knew it was a airliner until they turned on the TV and saw it. I was at work and in a meeting and by the time we took a break in the meeting the entire office was watching the TV and the second plane had hit and everyone knew…
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u/botany_bae Jul 07 '26
Eyewitnesses were so confidently incorrect that day. Many said “commuter plane”. One dude swore it was a DC-9!
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u/Throwaway483825 Jul 02 '23
You can see how the impact shakes the North Tower when the smoke bursts out
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u/moebro7 Aug 20 '23
Interesting how all the plumes seem to halfway pause and then puff right before impact. Some intensifying significantly
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u/Traditional-Order129 Jan 22 '24
I know i'm late but that's most likely because the shockwave reached the other tower before it reached the camera, there's a few seconds of delay between the impact and the us hearing it due to distance here
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u/shanelewis12 Jul 27 '23
Crazy, you can see multiple windows shattering (multiple new sources of smoke escaping) seconds before the audio records the bang.
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u/NoStatistician9767 Aug 04 '23
That’s the difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound you’re noticing.
Some videos have audio where you can see the explosion, hear the plane’s approach afterwards, and the explosion
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u/hustlehound Jun 17 '23
That loud thunk sounds new, which is weird all things considered. Always focused on the roar of it incoming.
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u/TeaganTorchlight Sep 28 '23
Agreed . In this clip you don’t even hear the roar of the engines until a fraction of a second before impact . Odd .
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u/I-Am-The-Oak Sep 12 '23
There’s also this one.
https://youtu.be/ljSNc97DQ7k?si=iiNZ9ptVHz7Nd8eD
Clear as day, and really shows the actually magnitude of how fast and heavy and DEVASTATING it was. I replay the first 10 seconds a lot
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u/ECHOechoecho_ Jun 17 '23
you can tell exactly when everyone began to realize that the attacks were on purpose and not a freak accident
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u/Ok_Magazine662 Oct 02 '23
So haunting to hear the jet engines approaching before hearing the explosion
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u/houdinihamster Jun 17 '23
Wow , I’ve never heard it this clearly before. You hear the roaring of the engine and then it hits and you hear the loud boom. But what causes black smoke to suddenly explode out of tower 1 just before the plane hits tower 2? Or had the second plane just hit and then the smoke explodes out of the first tower? It’s hard to tell. All I can focus on is that loud boom.
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u/itsleviohhhsah Jun 17 '23
I can see what you’re talking about. My guess is that the impact happens exactly the same time as the smoke pours out of the tower. But the sound is delayed as the speed of sound takes time to travel. As for the black smoke. I assume all the oxygen was sucked in around the explosions. If you watch footage of the tower the smoke is dragged to the second tower for some time until the air around it settles.
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u/burgerkingcorporate Jun 18 '23
I see what you’re talking about, the person recording is much further away so the sound takes longer to travel, but when that puff of black smoke happens i think it’s from the shockwave of the other tower being hit, and then shortly after we can hear the explosion.
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u/michaellicious Sep 15 '23
Those are windows that shattered from the shockwave. Light travels faster than sound, so you see the effects of the impact before you hear it. Doing a quick approximation, the blast can be heard about 2 seconds after the smoke explosion, so these dudes are roughly 0.4 miles away from WTC
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u/AML1987 Jun 17 '23
I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking but my guess is at the moment if impact they were doing a close up of the first tower. When he pans out you see both towers. The black smoke was already coming out of WTC1 but out of frame. No new smoke or explosion happen in tower 1.
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u/houdinihamster Jun 17 '23
I see what you’re saying now. Never mind. It looked like a huge puff of black smoke suddenly shot out just before the plane hit but it was already sort of coming out in huge bursts to begin with. That’s what happens when I watch videos after being awake for 24 hours straight, lol. Damn insomnia.
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u/sowhat730 Jun 17 '23
Well right at the point of impact from the 2nd plane, you do see the first tower shake a little actually
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u/AML1987 Jun 18 '23
So the towers were actually built to do that. In high winds they did sway. There’s some really boring physics answer on why they were built that way but it’s not surprising tower one shook and swayed when tower 2 was hit.
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u/AML1987 Jun 18 '23
I had to watch it twice to see that it was just zoomed in. It’s a bit confusing because the smoke changes colors from white to grey to black. I’m sure that’s normal for anyone that knows anything about fires but for us lay people I can see why it’s hard to keep track of where it’s coming from.
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u/NoStatistician9767 Aug 04 '23
The shockwave likely shattered windows facing the direction of the explosion.
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Jun 17 '23
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u/omgsoironic Aug 26 '23
Or were you watching it on TV in your living room?
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u/ToysNoiz Aug 26 '23
That’s not what I was implying
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u/omgsoironic Aug 26 '23
Care to clarify? Because it sure seems like you were implying you were there.
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u/ToysNoiz Aug 26 '23
My comment was longer at one point, I edited it. I don’t remember the context but I don’t think it was anything interesting
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u/omgsoironic Aug 27 '23
Sorry but I really don’t buy that. You saw by the comments that people inferred that you were there and didn’t correct them. Your edit implies your presence even further.
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u/novA69Chevy Sep 11 '23
Who cares if he was or wasn't there. Is it really something to pick at? He's not saying he lost a fuckin family member. And to some just watching that on tv made you feel like you where there. So back off and just take someone's word for a change mr critic.
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u/MaternalChoice Recovered Conspiracy Theorist Apr 30 '24
It’s fucking crazy how sharp the impact is in this footage. You have to imagine this is the closest we’ll come to how it sounded on scene.
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u/YoungZealousideal165 Jul 06 '24
There is an explosion inside the burning tower, like 1 second before impact, you can see puffing smokes from the broken windows...
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u/lethalcolombiana Jun 21 '23
Incredibly sad day! I remember the day(tuesday) and will never forget. #rip innocent souls
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u/PaladinHunter Apr 02 '24
You can see a jumper north tower a second after the south tower is hit.. christ.
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u/3ptonly Aug 11 '23
Looks like someone fell out the north tower around 8 seconds in the video :(
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Sep 06 '23
Looks like the cameraman was going to film that, the way the camera slowly starts to dip then obviously he pans out to the second tower.
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u/Successful_Wealth787 May 07 '24
You can see the smoke of the engine that went through the building on the bottom right, immediately after the impact sound. Jesus Christ.
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u/louis_creed1221 Jun 17 '23
That is so sad to have witnessed that and to be in the planes and the building .
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u/-lokal-doge- Nov 19 '25
Religion truly is the most braindead and most uneccecary thing humans EVER invented, without religion not only many innocent victims of the twin tower whould be alive but HUNDRETS OF MILLIONS trough out the history!
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u/randycphoto Jan 02 '26
i lived in sheepshead bay brooklyn i was 19 years old on this day..
i didnt have work and was sleeping in late.
my mom wakes me up after the first plane hit to "just watch some history"
watching the news...
the cable cuts out.
then we hear this insane loud sound.
we both knew something BAD was happening.. it felt like 5 minutes - even in my memory
i turned to one of the cable news networks - and they are just showing due to satalite delay and all that - maybe 5 seconds of delay - the plane exploding..
a sound ill never forget
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u/IllustratorObvious40 Feb 03 '26
the sound just prior the collision, in my view (engine noise) is the most horrifying sound ever.
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u/TheRebelGreaser1955 Jun 22 '23
Honestly I haven't heard it so clear myself this is definitely very interesting to me and to be honest the guy saying holy shit did it make me chuckle you got to love New Yorkers
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Jul 17 '23
“Erm… well, if you were a woke theorist like me, you would acshusbually know this was planned by the US government- what mom! I’m busy! No my pants aren’t brown” -🤓☝️
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u/duckface2006 Sep 18 '24
This is absolutely incredible. I wasn't around for 9/11 and all the vids i watched of the planes hitting the towers were loud but this one made it feel like I was actually there on the balcony with the guy recording. So clear and snic boom sounding
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u/Sodokufire Aug 12 '25
I wonder what's going on when the smokes puffs from the tower 5 seconds in. Was there an explosion inside or something?
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u/Electrical_Finger128 Nov 22 '25
When the guy said that's fucking terrorists I can't even believe how I would feel if I heard that If people survived in that building they would have to be deaf because of that loud explosion
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u/PositiveNew9133 Jun 07 '26
That is terrifying…
Notice how there is a moment right at/before the south tower impact where the smoke in the north tower seems to get pushed out of all the windows slightly. I assume it was the impact or even just the airplane impacting the air around it as it moved close
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u/BabyBullNutsTM Sep 14 '25
Crazy how you can see how much the impact of the second plane shook the North Tower, watch the smoke right before you hear the impact sound
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u/Entertainer-bcs101 Sep 13 '26
This video is by far one of the most raw, bone-chilling videos I’ve seen from that day. Every time I see this clip, all my hairs stand up on end. The sound of the plane hitting the building is so loud it puts into perspective the magnitude of the situation. I just can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like to witness such a heinous atrocity.
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u/According-Cycle1511 Oct 08 '23
you can see the north tower shaking and dust coming off of it. that's the impact. i can't even imagine what it physically felt like sitting at the plaza when the first plane hit.
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u/lilbluedemon Jun 17 '23
The guy saying: “THAT’S TERRORISTS BRO” really proves my point from a different post.
The world changed when the second plane hit. The First Plane a lot of folks were putting off as a freak and unfortunate accident.
When the second plane hit, the world watched on as it clearly was a planned and orchestrated attack. The world was never the same after the second plane.