"Translated by:" "Fraghera fraghera@turkcealtyazi.org" "Steve Bartelstein of ABC TV:" "Winston can you see?" "Are you on the North side there, where the plane made contact?" "Winston:" "Yes, I am." "But I say – the hold is – let me just get a better look right now..." "Steve:" "Okay, go ahead." "We'll – we're working..." "Winston:" "I'd say the hole takes about 6 or 7 floors were taken out." "And there's more explosions right now." "Hold on!" "People are running!" "Steve:" "Oh, there's..." "Winston, hold on just a moment." "We've got an explosion inside..." "Winston:" "The building's exploding right now." "You got people running up the street!" "Hold on" " I'll tell you what's going on!" "Steve:" "Okay, just put Winston on pause there for just a moment." "Winston:" "The building's exploding right now." "You got people running up the street!" "Hold on" " I'll tell you what's going on!" "Steve:" "Okay, just put Winston on pause there for just a moment." "Gumbel of CBS:" "Well I understand Theresa Renaud is with us right now Miss Renaud, good morning." "Theresa Renaud:" "Good morning." "How are you?" "This is Bryant Gumbel." "I'm down on 59th and 5th." "Where are you?" "I am in Chelsea and we're at 8th and 16th." "We're at the tallest building in the area and my window faces south, so it looks directly onto the World Trade Center." "And I would say, you know, approximately ten minutes ago, there was a major explosion from, probably, it looks like about the 80th floor." "It looks like it's affected..." "probably 4 to 8 floors." "Major flames are coming out of - let's see - the north side and also the east side of the building hit." "Gumbel:" "You're over in Chelsea did you hear the explosion from your position?" "Theresa:" "Oh yeah." "Yes we did." "As a matter of fact, we we heard it and... and..." "because I was just, like standing there pretty much looking out the window." "I didn't see what caused it, or if there was an impact..." "Gumbel:" "So you have no idea, right now..." "Theresa:" "Oh there's another one another plane just hit!" "Oh my god, another plane has just hit." "It hit another building." "Flew right into the middle of it." "Explosion" "Jim Ryan of FOX5:" "As you look at the picture from our chopper now, arriving at the scene..." "Jim Friedl in Hoboken said it appeared to bank sharply and smash directly, perhaps purposefully, into..." "Oh my goodness!" "Guest:" "Oh God!" "Jim Ryan:" "There's another one." "Oh my goodness, there's another one." "Female host:" "It seems to be on purpose." "Jim Ryan:" "Oh my goodness now it's obvious, I think that there's a second plane just crashed into the World Trade Center." "I think we have a terrorist act of proportions that we can not begin to imagine at this juncture." "Guest:" "Oh my god!" "Jim Ryan:" "My goodness!" "A second plane now has crashed into the other tower of the World Trade Center." "Obviously a suicide terrorist attack on the World Trade Center." "Female host:" "Mm." "Absolutely." "Jim Ryan:" "Oh my goodness!" "Guest:" "Oh God!" "Jim Ryan:... into..." "Oh my goodness!" "Reporter:... and then, as we were watching the live picture here in the studio we saw a plane crash into crash into the other tower of the World Trade Center." "And again let's, uh, just to be sure..." "There it is." "There it is." "The plane went..." "right through the other tower of the World Trade Center." "Lady reporter:" "That is a very hard thing to watch." "CNN Reporter:... to be sure, there it is!" "There it is." "The plane went..." "right through the other tower of the World Trade Center." "Lady reporter:" "That is a very hard thing to watch." "CNN Reporter:... to be sure, there it is!" "There it is." "The plane went..." "right through..." "Lady Reporter:" "I have to wondering..." "You hear about... the number 7 in trouble right now and than, what does that lead to?" "Katie Couric of NBC:" "Have you seen any any evidence, Elliott, of people being taken out of the building?" "Are you saying that emergency vehicles are there, and understandably so... but understandably so... but..." "of course, the major concern is human loss." "I mean, do you know if there were many people in the building..." "Elliott:" "Oh, another one just hit!" "Something else just hit." "A very large plane just flew directly over my building over my building and there's been another collision." "Can you see it?" "I can see it on this shot." "Katie:" "Yes." "Oh my..." "Elliot:" "Something else has just..." "And you know what?" "That looked like a 747." "You know what?" "We just saw a plane circling the building..." "We just saw a plane circling the building..." "Lady reporter:" "No doubt, a lot of activity on the ground right now, and uh... in terms of the firefighting capabilities." "When you get up to this high level uh..." "I assume the firefighters have got to get up there and, you know, fight it from inside." "Oh!" "Uh if you're taking a look now, you can see that we've just had another explosion and is that in the other building?" "Other voice:" "Is that what I'm witnessing?" "...something that made it clear that the first plane wasn't an accident." "NBC Reporter:" "When it, too, is hijacked." "This, the actual plane, as it hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center." "8:10 am, American flight 77 a 757 with 64 aboard, has taken off from Washington's Dulles airport, also bound for Los Angeles." "It too, is taken over, and loops back into the Pentagon." "It slices in at an angle, leaving a deadly and ugly gash." "Reporter:" "And two United Airlines flights were hijacked today." "And the attack planes were the hijacked domestic flights." "...ruffling 21 minutes later, approximately 903 the second large jetliner can be seen..." "Lady reporter:" "Uncertainty right now, as to what is happening you can see there are choppers." "I believe that could be a police helicopter that..." "Ooh!" "Wow!" "We just saw..." "Oh my goodness!" "Another live picture right now... of..." "What I believe was a plane!" "Reporter:" "We're going to re-rack the tape here and see if we can't see..." "Um, a plane... yeah, we see it right now." "Mike Walter:" "I saw this plane, a jet, an American Airlines jet coming." "And I thought, this doesn't add up." "It's really low." "And... and I saw it..." "It just went..." "Uh..." "I mean, it was just like a cruise missile with wings." "And I looked up." "I saw the jet banking and clearly you could see the AA on the side." "I knew it was an American Airlines jet." "And it went into a steep decline and accelerated..." "Boom!" "Right into the Pentagon, the side of the Pentagon." "And the wings on the jet just folded back, and it just kind of crumpled." "It kind of... came together like an accordion and it just pierced the wall of the Pentagon and there was this huge..." "Boom!" "Hi there, my name is Mark Walter." "I work at WUSA, channel 9 in Washington, D.C." "And there's been a lot written on the Internet about me and what I witnessed and saw on September 11, 2001." "And so I'm here to set the record straight." "One of the other things that's talked about on the Internet is the fact that I I witnessed it, as did a number of other people from USA Today." "And one of the things I've seen written is, Oh, well what was going on?" "Were all the USA Today people gathering for a picnic at the Pentagon?" "'" "You should probably know that the Pentagon at the time was located about 9 minutes away from USA Today's headquarters in Roslyn." "It's since moved out to Tyson's Corner, but at the time it was the way that we all went to work each day." "We drove by the Pentagon." "So it was a common sight for us." "One of the things that really bothers me is the fact that people constantly are calling me and e-mailing me and want information about this and I'm happy to talk to them." "But a lot of them say that well Physics just says that this is impossible, what happened" But what happened is pretty obvious." "The force of this jet hitting the Pentagon at about 500 mph..." "When something hits a concrete structure like that..." "You know, this belief that the wings would go in is just ridiculous." "What I saw was the actual jet going in, but the wings folded back like this." "So that's why when you look at the hole, you say Well, it's not big enough!" "Well... that's why." "The wings were not strong enough to withstand the impact." "They folded back, and that's why the jet went in and that's why the hole that you see isn't as large as you might imagine in another structure." "Basically, the only reason why I'm doing this is because over the last five years, I've been getting a lot of phone calls, e-mails, and my words have been twisted." "And I figure if you're going to the Internet for information go and find the right information." "One other suggestion keep an open mind, but always try and get the facts." "Mc Intyre:... you know it might have been appeared that way but from my close-up inspection, there's no evidence of the plane having crash anywhere near the Pentagon." "The only site is the actual side of the building has discretion." "As I said, the only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand." "There are no large ship tail section wing sections a fuselage nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon." "...9/11 Jamie's family been released." "Yes, uh... that's right here this is, uh... again a more complete version of the six still frame images that CNN obtained unofficially back in march of 2002 broadcast." "Then before tape has been something the government has been holding uh... as evidence in the trial of the sack writes Miss Sally but now that the trial is over." "They've released of the full video uh... and the video is which runs for a minute or so show us what happens just before the impact and also of the plane coming into the billions from two seperate cameras both at the same location at a uh..." "Uh..." "Pentagon checkpoint entranced and it's... it's hard to see a as were we're playing it here sort of stop action video again very similar to the store French we saw before but when you wrote run the video back and stop it at one point you can see what apperars to be the nose of the plane just entering the frame the very next frame there's an explosion and then in the second angle which is taken from another camera a little bit lower down." "You can see... uh will preserve your white flash that also looks like the plane but again it's not going to be distinc enough to convince competes theorists." "It's not going to be distinct enough to convince competes conspiracy conspiracy theorists." "It's not going to be distinct enough to convince..." "But for anyone with any common sense, and given all the other evidence we have, there's really no doubt that a plane hit the Pentagon." "Lady Reporter:" "Approximately 8:45 EST a plane crashes one of the towers the World Trade Center in New York." "Some 18 min. later TV viewers across the country watched astonishment as a jetliner flies right into the 2nd trade center tower." "Aaron Brown of CNN:" "Mr. Kallstrom are you able to see these pictures... clearly?" "Mr. Kallstrom?" "FBI's James Kallstrom:" "Yes, I am, mate." "Aaron:" "Were you able to see those?" "Kallstrom:" "I was able to see that." "Yes" "Aaron:" "As you watch that..." "as you've seen that..." "I hear... the anger builds, doesn't it?" "Kallstrom:" "Uh, it does." "It certainly does... build" "I mean, it's unbelievable." "It's... un-believable." "Aaron:" "I mean, we're trained in many ways – both of us ..." "Reporter:... again let's just look at this scene, this is amateure video." "The plane coming... and now..." "Uh, I was standing here talking with a couple of people and then I heard the jet, it was very low." "It came right over through here." "And then it made a slight twist and dove right into the building." "Um, it was a medium-sized passenger airliner." "Other man:" "Could you see the plane?" "Man:" "Could not identify the markings on it." "It looked to me like stuff actually shot out of the other side of the building." "Not the whole plane, but pieces of it flew out the other side." "Other man:" "Well ..." "Yeah coz it caught on the whole right side." "That must be a wing that sheared that off." "Man:" "Yeah." "You could see it." "You could see it from the cut, it just..." "NBC Reporter:... emergency vehicles are there, and understandably so, but..." "A female voice:" "Oh my god!" "Male voice:" "That was a United..." "It looked like, I swear... it looked like a United airplane that crashed into the side of..." "Other man:" "The one that just came in now?" "Yes!" "Male voice:" "That was a United..." "It looked like, I swear... it looked like a United airplane that crashed into the side of..." "Other man:" "The one that just came in now?" "Yes!" "I got outside... and was shooting the second plane..." "It circled around and it flew over New Jersey and it came in, and just ..." "Holy shit!" "TV anchor:" "Something that made it clear that the first plane wasn't an accident..." "Woman:" "God!" "Woman:" "God!" "Woman:" "What the hell is that?" "Man:" "Holy fuck!" "Woman:" "Oh my god!" "God!" "Woman:" "What the hell is that?" "Male voice:" "What the heck was that?" "Wow!" "Well, it sounded like something crashed." "Woman:" "Oh my god!" "Woman:" "Oh my god!" "Woman:" "Oh my god!" "What's happening?" "Woman:" "Oh my god!" "CNN anchorwoman:" "Right now we've got Sean Murtagh." "He is a CNN producer on the telephone right now." "Sean, can you tell us about what you know?" "Sean:" "This is Sean Murtagh. ...vice president of finance." "Hello?" "CNN anchor:" "Yes, Sean." "You're on the air right now." "Well, go ahead." "What can you tell us?" "Sean:" "I just witnessed a plane that appeared to be cruising in a slightly..." "lower than normal altitude over New York City and it appeared to have crashed into... uh..." "I don't know which Tower it is..." "But ... it hit directly in the middle of one of the World Trade Center towers." "CNN anchorwoman:" "Sean, what kind of plane?" "Was it a small plane?" "A jet?" "Sean:" "It was a..." "It was... a jet." "It looked like a two-engine jet." "Uh." "Maybe a 737." "CNN anchorwoman:" "You're talking about a large passenger commercial jet." "Sean:" "A large passenger commercial jet." "Fox host:" "It's believed a 737 has crashed into this is speculation at this point but at least 3 floors taken out." "It crashed into the side of the building." "Joining us right now... uh... one of the producers with Fox Report, Owen Moogan on the scene." "Owen, what do you know?" "What do you see?" "Where are you?" "Owen:" "Yeah, Bryan..." "I'm on the roof of my building, which is about five blocks to the south of the World Trade Center." "I'm looking..." "I'm looking right now the World Trade Center." "There's a massive gaping hole." "On the second tower." "Uh, it's, this is unbelievable to look at." "There's a massive hole." "Fox host:" "It... it looks like something out of a movie." "There's a huge hole in the side of Tower number one." "Now..." "Owen:" "One." "Fox:" "Owen, your apartment is just a few blocks from it." "Did you hear anything?" "Owen:" "I was lying in bed." "All of a sudden I heard what sounded like... uhh, a plane or something coming extremely low and then we just heard this shattering explosion." "I went to the roof, and..." "confronted by this..." "ABC anchor Peter:" "Um, I'm going to interrupt myself and everybody else for a second because one of our senior producers Mark Obenhaus is on the phone." "And he saw the incident." "Mark, you hear me?" "Mark:" "I do indeed, Peter." "Peter:" "Go ahead." "Mark:" "Um, well, I was leaving my house, to go to work, and I walked down the street to go to subway." "I was at the corner of Franklin and West Broadway and as I was approaching the subway a tremendous roar... went over my head and I..." "I..." "looked up immediately." "And it was a plane, um..." "Much lower than I've ever seen a plane in lower Manhattan." "It was a large plane." "I couldn't identify it as anything specific except that it was a commercial jet certainly." "And it, it then, my eyes followed it because this was approximately 15 blocks from the World Trade Center and it... it just slammed right into it and it was..." "It was extraordinary." "No wings flew off." "Nothing like that." "It just went directly in, creating this sort of... cavern-like hole." "It reminds you of the worst kind of effects in movies that, you know, you're reassured while you're in a movie that it's an effect but this is not." "Peter:" "Well, Mark." "You and I are supposed to have a meeting not long from now." "We'd prefer if you'd go and work this story if you could and call us back, as soon as you can." "Many thanks." "Mark Obenhaus one of our Senior Producers on the phone, who saw the incident describes it as a large plane..." "CNN anchor:" "Okay, we actually have an eye-witness news reporter Doctor Jay Adlersberg, who was downtown at the time." "And he is on the phone with us live." "Doctor Jay, what can you tell us?" "Jay:" "Well, Steve." "I'm actually uptown at 86th and Riverside." "I can see the World Trade Center from about uh... half the building up to the top." "And about five minutes ago, I was watching the smoke." "A, uh, small plane... it looked like a propeller plane... came in from the West, and um about 20 or 25 stories below the top of the center it disappeared for a second and then it exploded." "Um, behind a watertower, so I couldn't tell whether it hit the building or not." "But it was very visible that a plane had come in at a low altitude." "Anchor:" "Oh." "Okay." "Jay:" "And appeared to crash into the..." "World Trade Center." "Fox anchor:" "Mark Birnbach, Fox employee is on the phone with us." "Mark witnessed this from what we understand." "Mark, were you close enough to be able to see any markings on the airplane?" "Mark:" "Hi, Gentlemen, how are you doing?" "Yeah, there was definitely a blue logo." "It was like a circular logo on the front of the plane." "Uh, towards the uh..." "Yeah, definitely towards the front." "Uh..." "It definitely did not look like a commercial plane." "I did't see any windows on the sides." "And... as far as I knew, when I saw it coming down..." "I was like, Well, La Guardia is pretty far away and that plane is really slow." "And definitely looked very low." "And uh..." "I'm completely panicked." "I'm freaking out." "I can't believe what I just saw." "Anchor:" "Well, we are all shaken by this..." "Reporter:" "Some of the key suspects come to mind." "Osama bin Laden." "Who knows?" "Who knows what?" "Eric Shawn is with us." "Eric, I know you have a lot of sources at the FBI and other agencies like that." "What can you tell us?" "Eric:" "Okay." "First, I apologize for being out of breath." "Because, I was walking down fifth avenue which is close to our studios... and I heard a..." "Jet." "Perhaps a 737 or perhaps a small airbus." "Flying low." "Unusually low over fifth avenue." "Making a right." "I'm not going to say that." "I don't know." "I don't have any reports of what type of plane hit the World Trade Center." "But people looked up and it made a right toward the building." "John, what we just saw though, obviously, if that indeed was a second aircraf that hit the... the..." "Uh, southern tower of the World Trade Center." "That obviously raises the specter of an intentional terrorist attack." "Here, uh, if that is indeed what we are looking at." "I don't know what the reports say..." "what type of plane hit the air... the tower." "But I did see a jet airliner that was fairly low." "CBS anchor:" "Tell us what you saw, if you would." "Stewart:" "I was literally..." "I was waiting a table..." "And I literally saw a..." "It seemed to be like a small plane." "I just heard a couple noises." "It looked like it bounced off the building and then I heard uh..." "I just saw a huge..." "like ball of fire on top." "And then the smoke seemed to simmer down and it just um..." "You know, a lot of smoke was coming out and..." "That's pretty much the extent of what I saw." "Anchorwoman:" "We're going to join one of..." "another one of our New York affiliates." "WABC for their live coverage." "Winston: ...plane overhead." "And then all of a sudden..." "I thought it sounded kind of lot..." "sounded louder." "Then I looked up." "And all of a sudden, it smashed right dead into the center of the World Trade Center." "It's almost like the plane probably went through." "I'm not sure." "Vince:" "Winston, can you see?" "Are you on the North side there, where the mi the plane made contact?" "Winston:" "Yes, I am." "...the mi..." "... the plane made contact?" "...the mi..." "... the plane where the mi..." "... the plane made contact?" "We also have Don Dahler on the phone, and..." "You know he's been with us on Good Morning, America for a long time." "And, Don, where are you?" "And what do you know?" "Don:" "I'm about four... five blocks just north of the World Trade Center." "And, uh... at about ten..." "I'd say about 10 minutes ago, 15 minutes ago..." "There was a loud sound that I can only describe as it sounded like a missile." "Not an airplane." "Then there was a loud explosion, and immediately lots of screaming out on the street." "And..." "I don't want to... cause any speculation." "But that's the only way I could describe the sound, and it..." "Jim Friedl:" "It was pretty heavily banked." "Maybe 45 degrees." "It was hard to... again, hard to tell." "It was kind of unremarkable because you do see planes fly through here." "It was just... it was a large plane, like a 727." "And that's the only reason I kept looking, and then it went right into the building." "I just thought... it was going to fall into the river or keep on going..." "But it didn't." "Host:" "Now, after the plane struck the building, from your vantage point it apparently... went directly inside." "Jim:" "That's correct." "Dick:" "Jim, I don't know if we can confirm that this was an aircraft or... to be more specific... some people said..." "Dick:" "They saw... they saw a missile." "I don't know now if people could differentiate." "But we might leave open the possibility that this was a missile attack... on these buildings." "Jim:" "Ollie, yeah, I must say that..." "we have an eye witness..." "Who says it was a large plane that crashed first." "As we were watching the live picture here in the studio, we saw a plane..." "Crash into the other tower of the World Trade Center." "And again, let's uh... just to be sure..." "Jim:" "There it is." "Woman:" "Oh." "There it is." "The plane went right through the other tower of the World Trade Center." "Lady reporter:" "That is a very hard thing to watch." "NBC host:" "Jane you said you saw the first plane." "Did you get a glimpse of what kind of plane that was?" "We were told it was a small, commuter plane." "Jane:" "Well, it... it looked..." "It wasn't a Cessna or anything like that." "It was a larger plane, a mid-size plane." "And we could hear it very loud and..." "Elliott:" "We heard a very loud sound..." "The kind of sound you hear when a plane is... is uh you know, going fast, past you followed by an enormous crash..." "Um..." "And an immediate explosion." "Um..." "I don't think we could feel shock waves, but we sort of felt like we did." "Lady reporter:" "People in the building..." "Elliott:" "Oh!" "Another one just hit." "Something else just hit." "A very large plane just flew directly over my building and there's been another collision." "Can you see it?" "I can see it on this shot." "Lady reporter:" "Yes!" "Anchor:" "ABC's Don Dahler is with us, on the scene." "Don, just give me some description again of what you're..." "What you can see now?" "Dahler:" "Well, we're seeing..." "It appears that there is more and more fire and smoke enveloping the very top of the building and as fire crews are descending on this area." "It does not appear that there is any kind of an effort up there yet." "Now remember..." "Oh my god!" "Background voice:" "Oh!" "God!" "Woman:" "My God." "Anchor:" "That looks like a second plane..." "that just..." "Woman:" "Terrible." "Don Dahler:" "I did not see a plane go in." "That... that just exploded." "Dahler:" "Well, we're seeing..." "Dahler:" "Well, we're seeing..." "It appears that there is more..." "Background voice:" "Oh!" "God!" "NBC caller: the area is swarmed with emergency vehicles." "And sirens..." "And obviously, we're very sensitive to this kind of thing in this neighborhood." "NBC host:" "Ellie, have you... of course, because of the incident that occurred in the early 1990's." "...the incident that occurred..." "NBC host: and unfortunately, here in New York, many of our stations cannot see these little stations... because the antennas are on the World Trade Center." "There are back up towers on the Empire State Building." "But communications... television communications in New York City is probably, pretty much knocked off the air." "...knocked off the air." "Jim Ryan:" "Obviously a suicide terrorist attack on the World Trade Center." "Female host:" "Mm." "Absolutely." "A male voice:" "Grade 9 chopper 5, anybody on?" "Jim Ryan:" "What we have been fearing for the longest time here apparently, has come to pass a disastrous terrorist attack." "That is, once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center." "A private aircraft?" "CBS witness:" "It's..." "I'm not sure." "If it was a... it just seemed like a smaller plane." "I don't think it was anything commercial." "This angle is a little deceptive as you know there are two Trade Center Towers." "The shot that we've got is now just from one side of the World Trade Center." "it's near the upper floor, as you can probably see with your chopper shots." "I was walking down 6th avenue this morning at 8:42 am." "A group of us saw a plane pierce through the building." "Then we saw a huge cloud of smoke." "Dahler:" "It does not appear that there is any kind of an effort up there yet." "Now remember..." "Oh my God!" "Oh my God!" "Background voice:" "Oh!" "God!" "Woman:" "My God." "Anchor:" "That looks like a second plane..." "that just..." "Woman:" "Terrible." "Don Dahler:" "I did not see a plane go in." "That... that just exploded." "CNN anchor:" "And then, about a half an hour later..." "Just as emergency crews were converging on the scene... as, uh, eye-witnesses were gathering on the street corners, a second plane drove in to and you can see that plane coming around the building..." "Right now, in this tape... and there, you can see the hit." "...as it comes through, what looks to me at least..." "And this is the first time I've seen that tape..." "Look." "We want to be careful here." "We don't want to get too far ahead of this, but obviously this has all the appearances of an extraordinarily well-coordinated and devastating terrorist attack." "Male voice:" "Oh my god." "The plane just crashed into the building." "Reporter:" "Many people in the building..." "Elliott:" "Oh!" "Another one just hit." "Male voice:" "Perhaps, purposely..." "Whoa!" "Voice:" "Holy cow!" "It circled around and it flew over New Jersey and it came in, and just..." "Female voice:" "Holy shit!" "Diane Sawyer:" "Charlie and I have been talking this morning about the near impossibility... it would seem..." "that now two years after the attacks, there would be new video of what happened that day." "But right now, we want to show you something." "We have new footage obtained exclusively by ABC News." "What you're about to see..." "What we believe is the only known videotape that has recorded both hijacked jets striking the towers." "Here." "Let's look." "We take you back to September 11, just 2 years ago before the attacks on the World Trade towers." "An immigrant named Pavel Hlava is recording a video postcard to send home to the Czech Republic." "He is riding in an SUV approaching the Brooklyn Battery tunnel." "He captures a glimpse of the first plane going into the North Tower, but he doesn't know it." "Then, he goes into the tunnel." "Emerging from the tunnel fixing his camera on the towers again." "It was only weeks later that he realized he had captured that first plane going in to the North Tower..." "In fact, his son almost accidentally erased the tape." "Here you can just see American Flight 11 as it approaches... and hits." "The second horrifying attack, impossible to miss." "The sound you hear... the engines of United Flight 175 only seconds before impact." "New images of that now indelible day." "You may smell some of the fumes from... a missile exhaust." "British BBC reporter:" "Number one suspect has got to be this man, Osama bin Laden." "Voice:" "Was not a normal flight..." "that I've ever seen at an airport." "It was a plane that had a blue... uh..." "logo on the front and just..." "It did not..." "look like it belonged in this area, to be frankly about it." "Voice:" "I can only describe it as..." "it sounded like a missile." "Not an airplane." "Voice:" "Some people said they thought they saw a missile." "Voice: that's the only way I could describe the sound, and it..." "Anchor:" "And it may not yet be over." "We know at this time that at least 4 targets have been attacked." "The two Trade Center tower centers, here in New York City." "The Pentagon." "And then another plane that was crashed deliberately into an area outside of Pittsburgh." "That is the second plane hitting the twin Trade towers this morning." "Anchor:... coming and... this is now, in slow motion." "Oh!" "this is." "...terrified... awful..." "Woman speaker:" "There was a gentleman by the name of Ihaad Mohammed Ali..." "And he was a sympathizer..." "Uh, a Bin Laden backer." "Nisha Pillai:" "At 9 am local time." "Joining... us now... on the phone from New York is Steve Evans, who was..." "I believe in the building at the time." "Steve, what can you tell us about what happened this morning?" "Steve:" "People are running away very very quickly." "There are more explosions further down the building." "It was calm until we came on the air, now." "But I am looking up at this building..." "Nisha:" "At the moment, it's not really clear whether there was a plane crash or... exactly what went on." "Frenchmen:" "What really stick in my mind is passing by these people and filming them and filming their astonishment." "And eyes saying..." ""This is not happening. "" "I remember... tilting the camera back and forth between the people and the tower in front of me." "A male voice:" "Let's go!" "Let's move it'" "I remember... tilting the camera back and forth between the people and the tower in front of me." "Now, within an hour, the twin towers had collapsed." "Now, unlike most conventional skyscrapers, which have lots of interior columns to give strength to the building, the exterior walls of the World Trade Center bore most of the load, so the direct attacks were enough to weaken the buildings and lead to their collapse." "...were enough to weaken the buildings and lead to their collapse." "Jane:" "Well South Manhattan down here, just behind me as you can see behind me..." "It's awful." "But the Salomon Brothers building in New York has also collapsed." "# I need to take a breake #" "Do you have any idea whether or not other buildings in the immediate area are vulnerable at the moment?" "Whether there's concern about any other building as there was about this additional one after the towers." "ABC caller:" "Well, from the angle I'm looking at..." "We can see one other building still on fire." "We had problems with the pictures there, but what... what we can see is that sections of the other tower are also crumbling." "Now the reason this is happening, according to the web site for the World Trade Center." "They're actually telling us, That the structure, the outside cladding of this building is integral to the safety and security of it." "Once you penetrate that, apparently, the very structure of the building is under threat, and that's why one tower has already collapsed." "The live picture of the billowing smoke from the collapsing second tower." "It is completely enveloped in smoke and fire." "And we understand this other tower is also... it-it-it... it is in a situation of near-collapse." "ITN male voice:" "First, one of the twin towers, we understand, has collapsed." "Entirely." "We understand the second twin tower... also collapses there." "We are looking at the live picture..." "of the twin towers in New York." "# I need to take a breake #" "Tony Blair:" "This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today." "It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life." "Bush:" "Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center." "Giuliani:" "Two airplanes have attacked apparently..." "What?" "Man in mask:" "We can't go this way sir." "Giuliani:" "Well, alright, let's go North then." "Bush:" "Make no mistake." "# I need to take a breake #" "News:" "Most who saw and survived this day still had trouble believing what they saw." "The phrase you heard over and over again was it seemed just like a movie." "TV Reporter:" "It was extraordinary." "No..." "no wings flew off." "Nothing like that." "It was just went directly in creating this sort of cavern-like hole." "It reminds you of the worst kind of effects in movies that..." "It appears... because of the angle I think that the towers are leaning." "And I don't think that is that that is actually the case." "Anchor:" "And as Tom ironically points out, the weather... absolutely perfect day." "Woman:" "Right." "Tom told us right at the time of the attacks that it was sunny... 64 degrees... and dry." "Jim Ryan:" "The weather..." "I take it where you are, is just about picture perfect." "Caller:" "Picture perfect." "Yes." "It's very clear outside." "Anchor:" "You're looking at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, where..." "Just a few minutes ago... we're told that a plane... some reports are that it was a small commuter plane..." "crashed into the upper floors of one of the twin towers..." "Anchor: ...50.000 people work in the world trade center and witnesses say that they saw..." "Anchor: ...all things it would be considered..." "Anchor: ...seen here... there is uh there is a..." "line throught the air..." "here in the Brooklyn." "Anchor:" "Let's go to the Trade Tower again, because John, we now have..." "Uh..." "What do we have?" "We don't..." "Anchor:" "It looks like a... a new column new large baloon of smoke." "Anchor: ...the crash has left firery gaping hole to the 100... buildings..." "Anchor: ...as you look at to the picture from out chopper..." "# Is life goes by?" "#" "# Is life... #" "Anchor:" "It looked as if..." "the left-hand the right-hand tower was leaning..." "And now somebody is saying we're getting a witness saying they are leaning." "Anchor: ...from my view here from my view here from my view..." "Anchor:" "There's a wider shot of the two towers." "Now both towers have been hit by planes, now in the last half-hour... and I..." "I again, I say we are...." "We are totally powerless in knowing what's going on here." "Anchor: slow motion... of the plane coming in and hitting the obscured second tower." "Anchor:" "This tape of the airplane flying in..." "And hitting the World Trade Center." "ABC anchor:" "What's going on here?" "It can't be a coincidence, obviously." "Caller:" "This is no bomb from the inside." "This is as you forwarded, a terrorist attack." "There's no two ways about it." "Anchor:" "Little more than that..." "we do have an eyewitness." "Anchor: ...a plane coming in an hi-speed..." "Anchor:" "Good evening, everyone." "And good morning, actually." "We have breaking news... this out of downtown Manhattan." "A plane is allegedly crashed into the World Trade Center." "You're looking at live pictures from news chopper 7." "At 8:51, is the time right now, just a few moments ago." "Allegedly, a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center." "Very little known." "We're taking live pictures, you're looking at it." "News chopper 7, I believe, John DelGiorno is in the air." "John, if you can hear me, what do you see up there?" "Okay, John's not with us at this moment but..." "The Associated Press is reporting very little... little more than that... we do have an eyewitness" "Anchor: ...in New York city By 8:45 local time, the first plane flew over the city headed for the World Trade Center." "The American Airlines Boeing 767, with 93 people on board, flies straight into the North Tower." "A fireball erupts; and a gaping hole in the north face." "Three minutes past nine, The United Airlines plane with 65 on board, is directed toward the South Tower." "The plane plowed into the building exploding in a massive fireball." "Anchor:" "Experts at the Health and Safety Executive calculated for ITV News..." "The temperatures reached 1000 degrees centigrade for nine seconds." "It was those fireballs that brought the towers down." "NBC host:" "Do you have any idea what kind of plane it was?" "NBC caller:" "I'm sorry?" "NBC host:" "Do you have any idea what hit the World Trade Center?" "NBC caller:" "What it was?" "NBC host:" "Yeah." "What kind of plane?" "We're getting reports that an airplane hit the building." "NBC caller:" "Oh!" "I..." "I didn't even know that." "Honestly..." "Elliott Walker:" "And it might have been a DC 9 or a 747 just flew past my window and I think it may have hit the Trade Center again." "NBC host:" "To be honest, Elliott, I didn't get the impression that it was that big a plane." "Stewart Nurick:" "I was literally..." "I was waiting a table..." "And I literally saw a, it seemed to be like a small plane." "Anchor:" "And he described it as..." "a small plane." "Male voice:" "It was a small commuter plane." "Well, I'd never seen a plane flying so low." "And we... we looked out at it." "All of a sudden, boom!" "It seemed like it wasn't even real." "Then like 20 minutes after, I just saw another plane coming on the back side making a huge turn and then hitting the the other tower." "TV reporter: where was the first plane coming from?" "from North" "TV reporter: what did the plane look like?" "Like a... 737..." "like a jet plane." "I just saw a second plane come in from the South..." "And hit the south tower, halfway between the bottom and the top of the tower." "It's gotta be it: a terrorist attack!" "The plane... a commercial plane..." "comes toward us..." "It's gonna hit my building." "All of a sudden it made a left hand turn, and a right..." "And a left... all of a sudden, the whole downtown area just shook, I thought it was an earthquake... 1.2 and than, you can literally see the whole thing just exploded!" "Anchor: ...and it actually went into the building, in the upper floors." "Karim Arraki:" "Yeah, into the building." "And I never saw that plane before." "It's like..." "I don't know..." "like they worked with the motor..." "I never saw a plane like that before." "Yeah!" "Caller: and again, this... it was not a normal flight that I've ever seen at an airport." "Okay, thank you so much Jeanne Yurman, eyewitness to a loud sonic boom she described as she was sitting inside her apartment." "Don Dahler of ABC:" "There was a loud sound that..." "I can only describe as it sounded like a missile." "Not an airplane then there was a loud explosion and..." "Dick Oliver of FOX:" "Some people said they thought they saw a missile." "I don't know how people could differentiate..." "But we might keep open the possibility that this was a missile attack." "Witness:" "I was on my roof and I saw something... from where I am..." "I really can't see what it is..." "I saw something go into the other building, because from where I am, I can see the World Trade Center" "Dick Oliver of FOX:" "They saw..." "they saw a missile." "I don't know now if people could differentiate." "Anchor:" "At any point during this day, where you just in a very base way... afraid?" "Tim Roemer:" "There was... there were many times, miles that you were afraid you were worried." "Especially, when I was standing in front of the Pentagon that night seeing one of our fortresses pried open by a missile... uh... airplane." "...a missile... uh... airplane." "(speaking Italian)" "Witness:" "I just saw the entire top part of the World Trade Center explode." "I turned on the TV when I heard they said it was a plane..." "It was really strange." "Brown:" "I want to go to L.A. for Frank Buckley is in Los Angeles with us." "Frank, what can you tell us about what's going on there?" "Aaron, we just saw what appeared to be the worst possible situation..." "the last thing that we want to show you in fact... people arriving here at the airport." "Apparently, friends or family members of some of the victims of at least one of the flights." "Three flights were bound for Los Angeles." "And they are not arriving here obviously." "Now, friends and family are beginning to trickle in." "We haven't seen any until this moment..." "Two people just arriving here at the airport." "We can tell you that just within the last 15 minutes also this terminal has begun a process of evacuating this terminal." "And in fact, all of Los Angeles airport is being evacuated now, we are told by airport police..." "We just spoke to just a few minutes ago..." "I'd like to to let you hear from Lieutenant Howard Whitehead of the Los Angeles airport police as to the status here at the LAX." "3 flights were bound for Los Angeles that appear to be involved today." "What accommodations are being made for the friends and family of passengers?" "That's being handled by the airlines." "They are having a meeting now concerning that." "So that information you'll have to get from the airlines." "Lady reporter:" "What are you starting at this point?" "We are starting a total evacuation of the airport." "Will that include both workers and passengers?" "Only key employees will remain at the airport." "Reporter:" "Is this the entire airport that will be evacuated?" "Yes, ma'am." "Reporter:" "Why the evacuation?" "Because the evacuation has been ordered." "I cannot tell you why... but that's how it stands now." "Lady reporter:" "Is there a security threat to the airport?" "Uh, it's precautionary at this point." "Reporter:" "Thanks very much." "That was Lieutenant Howard Whitehead of the LAX police telling us again that just within the last 15 or 20 minutes, an order has the terminals at LAX." "Translated by:" "Fraghera fraghera@turkcealtyazi.org"