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Does anybody here remember what time....?

of day was it when the plane hit world trade center building 7 on 9-11-2001?

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  • Marli
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    I got to my workplace at 9:05 EST. My workmates were around the computer screen, watching the news video replaying the first plane hitting the WTC. 

    I presume it happened between 8:30 and 9. I remember how inordinately quiet the street was when I emerged from the subway in Toronto - as though an accident had occurred and everyone was too stunned by it - but there was no body, no wreck, no police shooing people away. I  had to rush to work. I heard nothing about it until I was inside the workroom. Nothing from the patrons, nothing from security. People must have been murmuring because the atmosphere of the street felt ominous. Too heavy and too quiet. I was preoccupied, but I sensed something bad had happened. I couldn't see it, but I sensed it. It had been an "ordinary" morning until I was outside the subway. Yonge Street still looked like it always did; but something had happened.

  • xyzzy
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    No plane hit Building & WTC.  There were four aircraft involved. At 8:46 a.m.,American Airlines Flight 11 hit the northern facade of the World Trade Center's North Tower (1 WTC). At 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower (2 WTC). American Airlines Flight 77  flew into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. and the  fourth flight, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh, at 10:03 a.m..  As the North Tower collapsed, heavy debris hit 7 World Trade Center, causing damage to the south face of the building and starting fires that continued to burn throughout the afternoon  At 5:20:33 pm EDT on September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center started to collapse, with the crumble of the east mechanical penthouse, while at 5:21:10 pm EDT the entire building collapsed completely.

  • Joseph
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    A plane didn't hit 7WTC; planes hit 1WTC and 2WTC.  7WTC was across the street from the north tower.  The collapse of the north tower caused massive structural damage and started fires in 7WTC.

    Engineers design a building with the assumption that in case of a fire the firemen will arrive promptly and will vigorously fight the fire.  On September 11, 2001 the NYFD had lost 343 firemen.  Despite the loss it continued to conduct a search and rescue operation on the scale it never seen before.  A decision was made to let the fires in the 7WTC to burn since it had no resources to fight them.

    There are conspiracy theories going around that news outlets reported the collapse of 7WTC before it actually happened.  The confusion comes from the fact that the collapse was reported live on air by the on-scene journalists while while the video of the collapse was broadcast after it already happened.

       

  • Kieth
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    Structural damage caused by the collapse caused the damage.

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  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    Where I was it was around 2 am.

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    It seems to me, the first plane hit roughly 9:20 am NY time. You can look up the exact time w/ a 10 second search.

  • geezer
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    Flight 11 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 am .. and the tower collapsed at 10:28 am

    Flight 175 hit the south tower at 9:03 am  .. and that tower collapsed at 9:49 am.

    These are all ''New York time'' .. so, in London, it was 1.46 pm when the first plane hit.

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