I was on the 44th floor of the south tower when the north tower was hit. I left within 2 minutes of the impact, along with all my officemates. While we were going down we did indeed hear an announcement on the PA telling everyone to stay in their offices because the incident was in the north tower. Nobody listened to it. Thank God we didn't. I got down about 3 minutes before my building was hit and was in the LL councourse, right by the exit from the destroyed Cortlandt St station on the #1 train. Sadly everyone I knew who died were corporate security for my employer (Morgan Stanley) and were probably caught inside clearing their floors when the building collapsed. The totally absurd nature of my experience was the utter lack of knowledge of what was happening during my escape. People halfway around the world watching it on TV were better informed than we were in the stairwell. There was no panic, just losts of jokes about 1993 and stuff. I only found out what was going on when I emerged onto Church St, turned around, looked up and saw how bad it was. People then began telling me about the two planes. RIP Rick Rescorla, Charles Laurencin and Wesley Mercer.
Here is a more detailed description of the story (Stanley/Brian): Stanley Praimnath was in the elevator up to his office on the 81st floor when the first plane hit the north tower. He didn't hear anything. He just saw the aftermath of the impact which he described as "Fire balls falling down from the other building". Stanley asked a female coworker called Delise, who stood at the copier making copies, to come over to see the damage. She immediately got scared and wanted to leave the building. Stanley agreed so he made his way down with Delise and many others from his office (including the General Manager and the Head of Human Resource). They went down to the Lobby on the ground level via the elevators. Stanley stepped out of the elevator and wanted to walk through the turnstile when a security guard stopped him. He told Stanley and the rest of the group to go back up again because the South Tower was secure and there was no need to evacuate. At the same moment the PA system made a similar announcement. Delise stepped out of the elevator and said to Stanley: "I'm scared. I wanna go home". Stanley was her project manager and permitted her to go home against the will of his bosses, who thought it would be irresponsible to sent people home since they would have a busy day ahead. Luckily Stanley had the strong will to stand up to his bosses which in the end saved Delise's life. Stanley still had a decision to make for himself. Go home or go back up? Pure pressure by the security guard and his coworkers put him on that elevator and back up again to the 81st floor. This was the last time Stanley would see his coworkers. They all died that day. Reaching his personal desk (on the south side of the South Tower) the phone rang. A lady from the Chicago office was on the line. She didn't want anyone to pick up, hoping that everybody from Stanley's office had already evacuated. She begged Stanley to leave. He argued with her when he spotted a small dot coming from the direction of the Statue of Liberty. He soon realized it was a plane and saw it aiming towards him. At the last moment he yelled out a prayer and dove under his desk. After the impact Stanley was temporally deaf, his desk was the only one left standing, every wall was mangled, the ceiling had collapsed, the sprinkler system was on, the wires from the ceiling were short circuiting and the air pressure was sucking everything out. Thinking he would die if he stayed there he decided to crawl to the stairwells. He only was able to reach the Communication room where one wall stood firm. This was the moment he yelled for help because he realized he could not get out by his own. Brian Clark worked on the 84th floor and survived the impact mainly because his personal office was on the West Side of that floor and the second plane hit the east side of that building. He gathered a group of coworkers and was able to select the only passable staircase (Stairwell A) by chance. When they reached the 81st floor landing they were stopped by a lady and her coworker which told them: "You can't go down. We just came of a floor with smoke and flames. We have to go higher". The group started to debate what to do, when Brian heard the yells of Stanley Praimnath. He grabbed the nearest coworker (Ron DiFrancesco) and was able to enter the 81st floor. The rest of the group, including the lady and her coworker decided to go up to find an escape route via the roof. Ron DiFrancesco, helping Brian Clark, got overwhelmed by the smoke on the 81st floor so he turned back and joined the group going up. He was the one who turned around and the last one out of the South Tower before it collapsed (waking up 3 days later in a hospital). Brian Clark on the other hand did not have any troubles breathing on the 81st floor and was able to find and save Stanley by helping him over that wall. After embracing each other (which includes kisses, exchanging names and creating a blood brotherhood) they made their way back to the 81st floor landing and decided to go down instead. On the 44th floor (Sky Lobby) they encountered a security guard with an injured man. He asked them to call for Emergency Services once they reach a working phone. On the 31st floor they got into Oppenheimer Space. Brian's company used to work on the 31st floor, but in the North Tower. After the 93 bombing the company moved to the 84th floor of the south tower. Knowing the 31st floor had reentering doors he decided to look for a working phone there. Luckily Brian was able to get a phone connection inside a conference room. He was able to call his wife and tell her he was safe on the 31st floor. This information turned out to be problematic. After the 93 bombing it took Brian 2 hours to exit the building. His wife knew of that fact and thought it would be the same this time. When she saw the building collapse 20 minutes later she thought her husband was dead, not knowing that the stairwell A was not cramped at all and Brian was able to move much faster. Stanley was not able to reach his own wife and left her a voice mail. After that Brian called 911 to let them know of the injured man on the 44th floor. He had to speak with 3 different persons to deliver that message. An incident which got picked up by the 9/11 commission to improve the Emergency Response and communication process in a crisis. After their phone calls Stanley and Brian were able to go down, leaving the WTC complex via the south-east exit. They went south. At a small shop Brian asked for water because they were thirsty. The man from the shop brought them water and a breakfast platter, telling them: "No ones coming for this one. Just take it." They walked down to Trinity Church where they encountered two priests and decided to pray and go into the church. Stanley turned around, looked at their tower and predicted the collapse, when shortly after the tower actually collapsed . During the collapse Stanley and Brian ran and entered 42 Broadway to get away from the dust cloud. Brian still carried the breakfast Platter, which turned out to be a blessing for everyone who took shelter inside the building :) Stanley and Brian talked for 45 minutes (the north tower collapsed during that time period). Stanley gave Brian his personal business card with his home address and phone number, because he owned a small business with his wife. They exited the building on the other side. On Broad Street they got separated. Brian made his way to the ports on the east side taking a ferry to New Jersey. Stanley on the other hand ordered a man with a pickup truck to drive him to Brooklyn where he would take a train to his home town. Later that evening Brian called Stanley, but not reaching him. Stanley called back in the middle of the night. They kept in touch, becoming close friends, visiting the wedding of each others children and traveling the world together to share their stories. Just one of the 9/11 survivor stories with a more positive note and one of my personal favorites.
It’s insane that companies occupying the South Tower would be more worried about keeping people at work than getting them out safely after the first impact.
I remember as an 11-year-old child in 2006 I was totally riveted when Brian Clark came to our church in Nebraska in September of that year and instead of a sermon they just had Brian tell his story for an hour around the 5 year anniversary of 911. I will always remember him talking about his friend Jose Marrero that he saw walking up the steps as Brian was walking down the steps. And Brian‘s story about having dreams where he (Jose) was standing at the foot of his bed like an angel, just smiling.
It was a woman who told them the stairs were full of smoke and there was no way out, and that they needed to go up. We do know what happened to the people who followed that woman up. The one survivor said that they came to a door that could not be opened. By this time the stairs were full of smoke, and people were becoming overwhelmed with them inhaling smoke. The survivor said that people sat down and began passing out. He felt himself being overwhelmed, but the thought of never seeing his kids again gave him a rush of adrenaline, he got up and charged down the stairs. He was the only survivor of the group.
@@mvfc7637it was another guy but he was apart of the group that decided to go up. He suffered 3rd degree burns over large parts of his body running down another stairwell that was completely engulfed by flames and smoke. He was the one to make it out and I believe the last person out the south tower seconds before it collapsed. I’ll look up his name and come back here… I just never forgot his story.
These two men became very good friends and they stayed in touch. Its hilarious to see them giving interviews together. Theyre like brothers from another mother today. They both credit the other for saving their life that day. And its true. Without the other, both would not be here today without the intervention of the other.
Brian Clark worked on the 84th floor as an executive at Eurobrokers in the South Tower which was also in the impact zone, he heard Stanley crying out for help once he got down to the 81st floor. As far as I know, Stanley, Brian and 16 others survived and escaped while everyone else perished.
20 people escaped from above the Impact zone One woman made it out, but unfortunately died of severe burns a couple of weeks later. The highest floor to survive from was a guy who came down from floor 98.
@@edreynolds8721 No he did not, it was AFTER the impact. Hundreds of people came down form the upper floors before impact with elevators, that was not unique. His name is Kevin Dorrian, AON - 98th floor. Just because you haven’t heard about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Also poeple were on their way DOWN at this point, not up, many companies started evaluating their own employers after a certain amount of time. They had to change elevators at the 78th floor sky lobby. On floor 78, out of over 200 people who had already begun evacuating the building, just 12 survived, one of whom later died. These are the ones who survived: Floor 78: Donovan Cowan, 34, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97) Keating Crown, 33, AON (Original Floor: 100) Mary Jos, 54, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86) Edward Nicholls, 51, AON (Original Floor: 102) Silvion Ramsunder, 31, Fuji Bank(Original Floor: 80) Kelly Reyher, 41, AON (Original Floor: 100) Christine Sasser, 29, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 80) Gigi Singer, AON (Original Floor: 100) Donna Spera, 36, AON (Original Floor: 100) Doris Torres, 32, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97) (Died on September 16 from injuries) Judith Wien, 45, AON (Original Floor: 103) Ling Young, 49, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86) Floor 81: Felipe Oyola, 24, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81) Stanley Praimnath, 44, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81) Floor 82: Sophia A. Thomas, 18, AON (Original Floor: 92) Floor 83: Julie Davis, 27, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 83) Floor 84: Brian Clark, 54, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84) Ronald DiFrancesco, 37, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84). DiFrancesco started on 84, but went up to Floor 91. There he found the doors locked, so he went back downstairs. Technically, DiFrancesco is a survivor from above the impact zone. Richard Fern, 31, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84) Floor 98: Kevin Dorrian, AON (Original Floor: 98)
@@GasPipeJimmy Well he did. He was not above the direct impact zone (the plane hit in an angle, that’s why anyone from the impact zone got down at all). It’s all matter of luck, were you are at and why you survive. His name is Kevin Dorrian, AON 98th floor. Just because you haven’t heard about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. These are the ones who survived: Floor 78: Donovan Cowan, 34, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97) Keating Crown, 33, AON (Original Floor: 100) Mary Jos, 54, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86) Edward Nicholls, 51, AON (Original Floor: 102) Silvion Ramsunder, 31, Fuji Bank(Original Floor: 80) Kelly Reyher, 41, AON (Original Floor: 100) Christine Sasser, 29, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 80) Gigi Singer, AON (Original Floor: 100) Donna Spera, 36, AON (Original Floor: 100) Doris Torres, 32, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97) (Died on September 16 from injuries) Judith Wien, 45, AON (Original Floor: 103) Ling Young, 49, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86) Floor 81: Felipe Oyola, 24, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81) Stanley Praimnath, 44, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81) Floor 82: Sophia A. Thomas, 18, AON (Original Floor: 92) Floor 83: Julie Davis, 27, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 83) Floor 84: Brian Clark, 54, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84) Ronald DiFrancesco, 37, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84). DiFrancesco started on 84, but went up to Floor 91. There he found the doors locked, so he went back downstairs. Technically, DiFrancesco is a survivor from above the impact zone. Richard Fern, 31, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84) Floor 98: Kevin Dorrian, AON (Original Floor: 98)
Imagine if one day, without warning, all of your coworkers died. I hope Stan’s life has been as smooth as possible since the attacks bc living through something like this would be brutal.
Wow, that’s just so mentally disturbing to imagine. I really wish he has been able to cope and find comfort in his close relatives and friends. He’s definitely a lovely and deeply grateful to be alive person from the interviews and documentaries he’s in.
Stanley, from my observations, was a devout Christian before 9/11 and carried and continued to carry that faith during and after the event. Definitely suffered survivor's remorse, but he seems to be a very strong and spiritual human being.
Stanley and Brian have retold this story many times. Stanley actually went down to the lobby. When other managers decided to return to their offices they teased him and he joined them.
It's crazy how someone survived a 767-200 plane going at 690 mph crashing into his office, Stanley is a blessed man, him and Brian's story of escape is incredible not to mention he said he was temporarily def because of the impact, it was so massive and loud it messed up his hearing for a bit and another person Florence Jones she said she felt the building move just like Brian Clark did and she said it felt like something stopped right over her head, insane.
I want to say, I normally get a little angry from a lack of recognition of the humanity as someone who survived or the way things are presented that give me PTSD. However, you are excellent at telling our tales. You have respect, facts, and compassion. I thank you for that
I just realised that if the plane hadn't hit on such a weird angle in the South Tower, and had gone in straight like the first plane did, Stanley probably would've been killed instantly. The fact it hit on the right side of that face and on an angle likely saved his life. I think when he says the wing clipped his office he means the whole floor, as in, his office floor. Stanley's first language is not English and I've seen several interviews with him where he has a funny way of describing things, but that being said he has stated that he saw the plane coming towards him and his floor. It's also possible (actually quite likely) that the wing clip was a piece of the wing or some other debris which he thought was the wing.
Stanley is a great character and speaks in a very expressive, animated way. His recall, when crossed with Brian Clark is slightly (and I say this with the greatest respect)…exaggerated.
I've seen many videos with Stanley and Brian telling their stories about how they survived the horror of 9/11. It's wonderful to see that they are still brothers to this day, they have a bond with each other that will last a lifetime. Bless them and everyone who was impacted and suffered on that horrific day 🙏❤️
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the WTC. When I went to New York, both times I went. The only time I’ve seen the Statue of Liberty was from the windows of the South tower observation deck. at one point during the exploration with my friend we got off the elevators and there was a floor and it was empty like the screenshot of this video. I was dumbfounded there were no walls and it looked very strange to me. I didn’t understand the construction at the time. Your videos are great. Keep them coming.
Blame it on Jorge did a really fascinating “lost footage” video on 9/11 a few days ago. Basically, trying to find a photographer that was in the North Tower on the morning of 9/11 photographing for a conference they were having at Windows on the World before the plane hit that day. So early morning.
This is one of your better video’s because you’ve used a diagram so as viewers can visualise the floor layout, the info on the elevator crashing thru on the 76th floor is something I haven’t heard before.
Imagine all the people in the south tower above floor 76 That were watching what was going on in the north tower overlooking the plaza. They would’ve been watching people jump because they were trapped to being in the exact same situation themselves. They were probably thanking God that it was the other tower and not theirs
That’s why many people started leaving even though they were being told not to leave. They saw the people jumping and decided that’s enough I’m out of here
I love your 9/11 videos! I love your delivery of facts and how straightforward you are with the content. Thank you for making these. It's refreshing to have new videos about this atrocity that took and continues to take so many lives. I still can't wrap my mind around how big these buildings were.
Tragically, around 200 people lost their lives in elevators during the 9/11 attacks. Tim Brown, who acted as a liaison between the FDNY and NYC's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), attempted to rescue people trapped in a lobby elevator. Despite their efforts, they could only save two individuals. Fortunately for Tim, he was called away before the South Tower collapsed. He was in the Marriott Hotel when debris from the South Tower split it in half, but he miraculously survived. His firsthand accounts of that day are compelling - I recommend watching his interviews on TH-cam.
I remember a story about exactly this in the north tower. The elevator had its cable snapped by the first plane, it and it's occupants fell all the way down almost to the lobby as it was stopped by its emergency brakes, only a few inches of clearance between the floor of the elevator and the top of the doorway opening in the lobby, overtop of the pool of jet fuel that came down the shaft around the elevator car and puddled in the elevator pit. I forget the firefighter's name, but he found them and could only get the doors open to see their feet; e brakes locked the car into place, and fire fighter could only watch their feet as they cooked. As he did and realized he didn't have the tools, another fireman I can't remember the name of came and took charge of the elevator rescue. They found this fireman with his jaws of life at the doorway of that elevator, meaning he went back out to his truck to get the jaws of life and went back into that damn building before it collapsed. There is a video of the first fireman I mentioned telling the story, if anyone recognizes these heroes please name them for me and anyone interested!
You got a few things wrong. Stanley had to go though a tremendous amount of debrit. Falling ceilings, hanging live wires, sheet rock everywhere. He was very worried he was gonna die one way or another. Not to mention the air pressure trying to suck him out. He even saw parts of the plane. There was so much debrit, he couldn't even get out. Stanley was not part of the group that said not to go downstaris. Brian Clark was the man who ran into that group. They decided to go up, while this was occurring, he heard Stanley yelling for help. Ron Defrancesco went with him. Ron was overwhelmed by smoke, and couldn't continue foward with Brian, so he went to follow the group that went upstairs. Brian proceeded and heard Stanley behind a collapsed wall. Stanley had to climb to the top of that wall and Brian pulled him over. Then they went back to that staircase and went down and found the debris was passable. They escaped and were east I think of trinity church when the building collapsed. As for Ron, he was the only one of the group that went upstairs to survive. He says he was almost passing out from the smoke and that the others up there with him started laying down to sleep(they were definitely sucumbing to the smoke) He left and started down the stairs and had to run through a wall on fire or something like that causing some severe burns, then he escaped the building and is officially known as the last man out of the tower, so close in fact that he claims he was hit by a fireball as he was escaping that threw him foward many feet and caused more severe burns. It was the last thing he remembered before waking up in the hospital.
Also, Stanley made downstairs by elevator. A guard asked his group to come back up. A secretary was scared so she left anyway, while the rest of the group went up also by elevator.
I always wonder how the woman he was on the phone with felt when she saw the plane hit the south tower and then probably hearing the line go dead. Must have been the biggest sigh of relief when she found out he did survive
Brian`s employees decide to go up the stairs because they thought they can get rescue from the roof sadly the door was locked sealing there fate all of them were killed when south tower collapse at 9.59am
He mentioned in a documentary that the only way he survived is that his office floor collapsed and he fell down through the ceiling into the floor below his and he met up with another man that became his lifeline to surviving.
You are mixing up Clark and Stanley’s stories. It was Clark that Was with the group that went back up. After Clark saved Stanley they went directly down
That someone else was Brian Clark. The group with him went back up the stairs . Brian rescued Stanley and they went downstairs. Brian's group that went back up parished
Are all or some of these renders? Especially the one looking out the windows with all the papers flying or the one with the broken debris of doors or whatever
Why would security block people from exiting? If people trying to get out of the South Tower were encouraged to stay in the lobby to escape falling debris outside, that’s one thing-but the security officers were making people go *back upstairs to their offices* …! Sounds more to me like the companies in the South Tower were using them like prison guards to make victims get back to work.
There has already been a bombing in the WTC at 1993. And a lot of people on that day remembered that and a lot of them knew that last time the best opportunity would be to go up to the top (they probably thought it was another bomb that exploded). And the most of them who chose to go down didn't think it would be a big deal. They've had no idea of what was about to happen. So sometimes I think, if there wasnt that previous attack then they maybe would have been more alerted, going down the staircase a little bit faster but not panicking. A view deaths more could have been prevented
Tell us about "The 9/11 Surfer" Next. Ive never heard his full story. Hes always has it behind a paywall, so ive only heard parts. If you could find the full story, youre the man.
There are a lot of interviews with him not behind a paywall. Even on Joe Budden channel. I feel like the firefighters who survived in the same stairwell have a little better story. Meaning a little more interesting.
@@BillyBong They do have a more interesting story. I found the surfers story on youtube a while ago (a portion at least) I just remember it stops right as hes telling of the building collapsing, with the interviewer wanting you to subscribe to his podcast to hear the rest. and I realized that there wernt many videos about him here or I had a hard time finding them. This was probably a few years ago. About to try to look him up again. But from what ive heard, the guy kind of lost consciousness and doesnt remember exactly how he survived. He just remembers closing his eyes, afraid to open, still holding onto the same railing, standing on the same flooring, but he remembers a feeling of weightlessness. As if the entire chunk of wall and floor he was holding onto had detached and became airborne. I think the surfer, and the group of firefighters and the lady that accompanied them were considered the only survivors of the collapse that were pulled from the rubble. It was sad, every hospital in that city had a full staff on standby, waiting and on call for ambulances to bring in survivors from the collapse but they never came. If you were in that building you had no chance except for the aforementioned people and it's a miracle that even they made it.
After watching many of your 9/11 related videos, I've come to the sincere conclusion that you are a well-spoken and intelligent individual. Personally, I feel that if you were to start making JFK assassination related content, it would broaden your channels content spectrum, and with your skill set for making educated videos, it's something you would excel in.
They had an animation of what Stanley saw in a 9/11 documentary. They made it seem like the planes right wing just missed him, like he was in the south east corner. The diagram in this video shows him above the left wing in the south west corner.
Yea I remember that. They exaggerated a bit, but it doesn't cheapen his story at all. I know that isn't what your saying, a whole plane hit the man's floor lol
Yes. Sadly people did evacuate from both Towers yet were injured or killed by debris. That's another reason why the PA System didn't want everyone to evacuate at first
By what law can you refuse someone to leave a building? Is it a prison? A company should not be able to detain people against their will inside an office and def not when all hell breaks out.
What I love is here it is 25 years later and we pulled that dude out of a hole…..and went to bin Landen’s house and we all no what happened…I’m pretty sure most of the old taliban is dead…osama is prob friend requesting me last week for all I no…he hid in plane sight for years and we found him up in the mountains….he was on dialysis that’s how we found him…sick.god bless all the Americans that died that day…I love u…Pittsburgh p.a loves u and never forgets what happened….i remember the logo was we will never forget…
I forget which tower or her name but was one red hair Woman on 91st floor of one of towers and was only person to make it out past the 87th floor I believe or something like that
The doors to the roof were locked. Helicopters above the building didn't see anyone on the roof and they were deliberately looking to try to save people.
Thats false! Even if there had been people they would have been unable to rescue them! The top of the buildings quickly became engulfed into thick black smoke! Just check the pictures!
And when Stanley got out he got someone in a pickup truck to take him to Brooklyn and Brian thought it was all a dream until Stanley got a hold of him later
Actually what happened was Stanley gave him a business card after they ran from the south tower’s collapse. Brian did think Stanley was a dream when they first got separated, but when Brian remembered the business card, he reached into his pocket and noticed he still had the business card. That reassured him that Stanley was real.
Buenos días. haz un video sobre lo que habría pasado si en vez de los aviones que ya conocemos las torres hubieran sido impactadas por Jumbos 747. Gracias.
Stanley’s office + view was looking SOUTH in the south tower (so he may have never even seen or heard the north tower impact). D-Ginger - - you should do a 9/11 story on the NYC firefighter👨🏻🚒 who was talking to an “angel” while walking over the Brooklyn Bridge (he was on an Oprah special); others said he was on the bridge by himself (alone) - yet he claims he had a conversation with a man who walked next to him - - from the twin towers over the entire bridge. When he turned to give the man a bottle of water - the man was gone. The man told him it was his job to tell the story about what happened that day.
@@jacoblott1617 His name was Darius Marshall. He got hit by debris when the towers fell and lost consciencenss. His family found him and identified him at the hospital. In 2003, He boarded a ferry to Staten island. The captain (ironicly named Capt Smith) of the fairy had been taking back medication and blacked out at the wheel. The ferry crash killed 11 and named 70 other people. Darius Marshall Was one of the 11.
Helicopter rescue teams failed rescuing people traped at the top and also at the windows. They would have saved a quiet number of people seen beside the window s
Was it your channel that showed the woman waving from the hole where the airplane went through? And someone identified her as being a woman from Europe, I think, who was clearly okay, trying to get some attention in the hopes, I suppose, of getting a helicopter rescue, which would've been impossible. I don't know why we ever built such ridiculously tall buildings in the first place. ("love of money is the root of all evil") Cramming so many people vertically into a relatively tiny space leads to a lot of unfortunate things, especially in terms of human behavior. And when the workday ends, and all these people funnel on down and out of the buildings, it's like kicking over an anthill or a termite mound.
Why? Lack of space … simple as this! And because we can! Does not happen every day that passenger planes get flown into such buildings. To see this a reason to question them is not really common sense … for most other incidents they are equipped!
When steel beams are heated by constant fire, they lose 50% of their strength, which leads to their collapse, since the weight they support is enormous. 02.07.24.
Nobody ever said that they melted! We know how steel beam behave in a hot kerosene fire … they start bending, losing their stability. Having tons of building sitting on crinkled and crunchy steel beams gravity becomes stronger than the buildings stability there!
I still can't believe that story,that he hid under his desk as a 767 heavy was urtling towards the south tower at over 550 miles p.h,and the impact was right above him, sorry but I still think that that's a tad over exaggerated,just my opinion
Before he dived under his desk, the last image he saw would've been the plane hurtling directly towards him. Had it not banked sharply in the last instant before impact, it would've hit his office so I think he just assumed it had, based on the plane's approaching angle before he got under his desk. Obviously just my opinion too.
Especially with all the jet fuel and flying debris, however the towers are over 200‘ x 200‘ so would that be far enough away from the crash zone of an airplane like that?
How? You also have to remember that 12 people survived the South Tower skylobby crash some people were still alive and too badly injured or amputated and couldn't move most were killed instantly
@@carlosblank6629 yes I noticed that,of the plane was to carry on flying in a straight line,it would have missed the Tower completely, unlike Atta's,which was totally in line with the North Tower
Oh I remember that guy who had helped Stanley and they're still close friends to this day, Brian Clark is his name and as Stanley looked at the window he had heard the plane engine's whinning as it was "at eye level" to omg I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to be in Stanley's shoes and seeing that would be horrifying but I'm not sure if Brian had seen the plane to or not but hats off to Brian helping Stanley. I hope all is well them, bless you two.
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I was on the 44th floor of the south tower when the north tower was hit. I left within 2 minutes of the impact, along with all my officemates. While we were going down we did indeed hear an announcement on the PA telling everyone to stay in their offices because the incident was in the north tower. Nobody listened to it. Thank God we didn't. I got down about 3 minutes before my building was hit and was in the LL councourse, right by the exit from the destroyed Cortlandt St station on the #1 train. Sadly everyone I knew who died were corporate security for my employer (Morgan Stanley) and were probably caught inside clearing their floors when the building collapsed. The totally absurd nature of my experience was the utter lack of knowledge of what was happening during my escape. People halfway around the world watching it on TV were better informed than we were in the stairwell. There was no panic, just losts of jokes about 1993 and stuff. I only found out what was going on when I emerged onto Church St, turned around, looked up and saw how bad it was. People then began telling me about the two planes.
RIP Rick Rescorla, Charles Laurencin and Wesley Mercer.
Here is a more detailed description of the story (Stanley/Brian):
Stanley Praimnath was in the elevator up to his office on the 81st floor when the first plane hit the north tower. He didn't hear anything. He just saw the aftermath of the impact which he described as "Fire balls falling down from the other building". Stanley asked a female coworker called Delise, who stood at the copier making copies, to come over to see the damage. She immediately got scared and wanted to leave the building. Stanley agreed so he made his way down with Delise and many others from his office (including the General Manager and the Head of Human Resource).
They went down to the Lobby on the ground level via the elevators. Stanley stepped out of the elevator and wanted to walk through the turnstile when a security guard stopped him. He told Stanley and the rest of the group to go back up again because the South Tower was secure and there was no need to evacuate. At the same moment the PA system made a similar announcement.
Delise stepped out of the elevator and said to Stanley: "I'm scared. I wanna go home". Stanley was her project manager and permitted her to go home against the will of his bosses, who thought it would be irresponsible to sent people home since they would have a busy day ahead. Luckily Stanley had the strong will to stand up to his bosses which in the end saved Delise's life.
Stanley still had a decision to make for himself. Go home or go back up? Pure pressure by the security guard and his coworkers put him on that elevator and back up again to the 81st floor. This was the last time Stanley would see his coworkers. They all died that day.
Reaching his personal desk (on the south side of the South Tower) the phone rang. A lady from the Chicago office was on the line. She didn't want anyone to pick up, hoping that everybody from Stanley's office had already evacuated. She begged Stanley to leave. He argued with her when he spotted a small dot coming from the direction of the Statue of Liberty. He soon realized it was a plane and saw it aiming towards him. At the last moment he yelled out a prayer and dove under his desk.
After the impact Stanley was temporally deaf, his desk was the only one left standing, every wall was mangled, the ceiling had collapsed, the sprinkler system was on, the wires from the ceiling were short circuiting and the air pressure was sucking everything out. Thinking he would die if he stayed there he decided to crawl to the stairwells. He only was able to reach the Communication room where one wall stood firm. This was the moment he yelled for help because he realized he could not get out by his own.
Brian Clark worked on the 84th floor and survived the impact mainly because his personal office was on the West Side of that floor and the second plane hit the east side of that building. He gathered a group of coworkers and was able to select the only passable staircase (Stairwell A) by chance. When they reached the 81st floor landing they were stopped by a lady and her coworker which told them: "You can't go down. We just came of a floor with smoke and flames. We have to go higher". The group started to debate what to do, when Brian heard the yells of Stanley Praimnath. He grabbed the nearest coworker (Ron DiFrancesco) and was able to enter the 81st floor. The rest of the group, including the lady and her coworker decided to go up to find an escape route via the roof.
Ron DiFrancesco, helping Brian Clark, got overwhelmed by the smoke on the 81st floor so he turned back and joined the group going up. He was the one who turned around and the last one out of the South Tower before it collapsed (waking up 3 days later in a hospital). Brian Clark on the other hand did not have any troubles breathing on the 81st floor and was able to find and save Stanley by helping him over that wall. After embracing each other (which includes kisses, exchanging names and creating a blood brotherhood) they made their way back to the 81st floor landing and decided to go down instead.
On the 44th floor (Sky Lobby) they encountered a security guard with an injured man. He asked them to call for Emergency Services once they reach a working phone.
On the 31st floor they got into Oppenheimer Space. Brian's company used to work on the 31st floor, but in the North Tower. After the 93 bombing the company moved to the 84th floor of the south tower. Knowing the 31st floor had reentering doors he decided to look for a working phone there.
Luckily Brian was able to get a phone connection inside a conference room. He was able to call his wife and tell her he was safe on the 31st floor. This information turned out to be problematic. After the 93 bombing it took Brian 2 hours to exit the building. His wife knew of that fact and thought it would be the same this time. When she saw the building collapse 20 minutes later she thought her husband was dead, not knowing that the stairwell A was not cramped at all and Brian was able to move much faster.
Stanley was not able to reach his own wife and left her a voice mail. After that Brian called 911 to let them know of the injured man on the 44th floor. He had to speak with 3 different persons to deliver that message. An incident which got picked up by the 9/11 commission to improve the Emergency Response and communication process in a crisis.
After their phone calls Stanley and Brian were able to go down, leaving the WTC complex via the south-east exit. They went south. At a small shop Brian asked for water because they were thirsty. The man from the shop brought them water and a breakfast platter, telling them: "No ones coming for this one. Just take it."
They walked down to Trinity Church where they encountered two priests and decided to pray and go into the church. Stanley turned around, looked at their tower and predicted the collapse, when shortly after the tower actually collapsed .
During the collapse Stanley and Brian ran and entered 42 Broadway to get away from the dust cloud. Brian still carried the breakfast Platter, which turned out to be a blessing for everyone who took shelter inside the building :) Stanley and Brian talked for 45 minutes (the north tower collapsed during that time period). Stanley gave Brian his personal business card with his home address and phone number, because he owned a small business with his wife. They exited the building on the other side. On Broad Street they got separated. Brian made his way to the ports on the east side taking a ferry to New Jersey. Stanley on the other hand ordered a man with a pickup truck to drive him to Brooklyn where he would take a train to his home town.
Later that evening Brian called Stanley, but not reaching him. Stanley called back in the middle of the night. They kept in touch, becoming close friends, visiting the wedding of each others children and traveling the world together to share their stories. Just one of the 9/11 survivor stories with a more positive note and one of my personal favorites.
My goodness...🙏🌹❤
Thanks for this.
It’s insane that companies occupying the South Tower would be more worried about keeping people at work than getting them out safely after the first impact.
I remember as an 11-year-old child in 2006 I was totally riveted when Brian Clark came to our church in Nebraska in September of that year and instead of a sermon they just had Brian tell his story for an hour around the 5 year anniversary of 911.
I will always remember him talking about his friend Jose Marrero that he saw walking up the steps as Brian was walking down the steps. And Brian‘s story about having dreams where he (Jose) was standing at the foot of his bed like an angel, just smiling.
Jose and another man saved countless lives that day. Ppl couldn't open their doors and Jose used a crowbar to get them open.
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It was a woman who told them the stairs were full of smoke and there was no way out, and that they needed to go up. We do know what happened to the people who followed that woman up. The one survivor said that they came to a door that could not be opened. By this time the stairs were full of smoke, and people were becoming overwhelmed with them inhaling smoke. The survivor said that people sat down and began passing out. He felt himself being overwhelmed, but the thought of never seeing his kids again gave him a rush of adrenaline, he got up and charged down the stairs. He was the only survivor of the group.
Was that Brian Clark or someone else from that group?
@@mvfc7637it was another guy but he was apart of the group that decided to go up. He suffered 3rd degree burns over large parts of his body running down another stairwell that was completely engulfed by flames and smoke. He was the one to make it out and I believe the last person out the south tower seconds before it collapsed. I’ll look up his name and come back here… I just never forgot his story.
@@cindypltnmRon Difrancesco 👍
@@cindypltnm Ah yes, I know who you’re referring to, he has an Italian sounding surname, I watched his interview a few weeks ago.
@@JustAndy2020 yep, that’s the guy.
These two men became very good friends and they stayed in touch. Its hilarious to see them giving interviews together. Theyre like brothers from another mother today. They both credit the other for saving their life that day. And its true. Without the other, both would not be here today without the intervention of the other.
I saw that too
Brian Clark worked on the 84th floor as an executive at Eurobrokers in the South Tower which was also in the impact zone, he heard Stanley crying out for help once he got down to the 81st floor. As far as I know, Stanley, Brian and 16 others survived and escaped while everyone else perished.
20 people escaped from above the Impact zone One woman made it out, but unfortunately died of severe burns a couple of weeks later. The highest floor to survive from was a guy who came down from floor 98.
@@missJolie85Wow, the 98th floor. Lucky guy!
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98th floor? That guy must have been on a dead run down those stars seconds after the impact.
@@edreynolds8721 No he did not, it was AFTER the impact. Hundreds of people came down form the upper floors before impact with elevators, that was not unique. His name is Kevin Dorrian, AON - 98th floor.
Just because you haven’t heard about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Also poeple were on their way DOWN at this point, not up, many companies started evaluating their own employers after a certain amount of time. They had to change elevators at the 78th floor sky lobby. On floor 78, out of over 200 people who had already begun evacuating the building, just 12 survived, one of whom later died.
These are the ones who survived:
Floor 78:
Donovan Cowan, 34, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97)
Keating Crown, 33, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Mary Jos, 54, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86)
Edward Nicholls, 51, AON (Original Floor: 102)
Silvion Ramsunder, 31, Fuji Bank(Original Floor: 80)
Kelly Reyher, 41, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Christine Sasser, 29, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 80)
Gigi Singer, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Donna Spera, 36, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Doris Torres, 32, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97) (Died on September 16 from injuries)
Judith Wien, 45, AON (Original Floor: 103)
Ling Young, 49, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86)
Floor 81:
Felipe Oyola, 24, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81)
Stanley Praimnath, 44, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81)
Floor 82:
Sophia A. Thomas, 18, AON (Original Floor: 92)
Floor 83:
Julie Davis, 27, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 83)
Floor 84:
Brian Clark, 54, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84)
Ronald DiFrancesco, 37, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84). DiFrancesco started on 84, but went up to Floor 91. There he found the doors locked, so he went back downstairs. Technically, DiFrancesco is a survivor from above the impact zone.
Richard Fern, 31, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84)
Floor 98:
Kevin Dorrian, AON (Original Floor: 98)
@@GasPipeJimmy Well he did. He was not above the direct impact zone (the plane hit in an angle, that’s why anyone from the impact zone got down at all). It’s all matter of luck, were you are at and why you survive. His name is Kevin Dorrian, AON 98th floor. Just because you haven’t heard about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
These are the ones who survived:
Floor 78:
Donovan Cowan, 34, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97)
Keating Crown, 33, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Mary Jos, 54, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86)
Edward Nicholls, 51, AON (Original Floor: 102)
Silvion Ramsunder, 31, Fuji Bank(Original Floor: 80)
Kelly Reyher, 41, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Christine Sasser, 29, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 80)
Gigi Singer, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Donna Spera, 36, AON (Original Floor: 100)
Doris Torres, 32, Fiduciary Trust (Original Floor: 97) (Died on September 16 from injuries)
Judith Wien, 45, AON (Original Floor: 103)
Ling Young, 49, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Original Floor: 86)
Floor 81:
Felipe Oyola, 24, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81)
Stanley Praimnath, 44, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 81)
Floor 82:
Sophia A. Thomas, 18, AON (Original Floor: 92)
Floor 83:
Julie Davis, 27, Fuji Bank (Original Floor: 83)
Floor 84:
Brian Clark, 54, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84)
Ronald DiFrancesco, 37, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84). DiFrancesco started on 84, but went up to Floor 91. There he found the doors locked, so he went back downstairs. Technically, DiFrancesco is a survivor from above the impact zone.
Richard Fern, 31, Eurobrokers (Original Floor: 84)
Floor 98:
Kevin Dorrian, AON (Original Floor: 98)
Imagine if one day, without warning, all of your coworkers died. I hope Stan’s life has been as smooth as possible since the attacks bc living through something like this would be brutal.
Wow, that’s just so mentally disturbing to imagine. I really wish he has been able to cope and find comfort in his close relatives and friends. He’s definitely a lovely and deeply grateful to be alive person from the interviews and documentaries he’s in.
Stanley, from my observations, was a devout Christian before 9/11 and carried and continued to carry that faith during and after the event. Definitely suffered survivor's remorse, but he seems to be a very strong and spiritual human being.
Always follow your gut feelings.
This is perhaps the most famous story of escape on 9/11. It is amazing tale that is as compelling now as it was then.
Stanley and Brian have retold this story many times. Stanley actually went down to the lobby. When other managers decided to return to their offices they teased him and he joined them.
It's crazy how someone survived a 767-200 plane going at 690 mph crashing into his office, Stanley is a blessed man, him and Brian's story of escape is incredible not to mention he said he was temporarily def because of the impact, it was so massive and loud it messed up his hearing for a bit and another person Florence Jones she said she felt the building move just like Brian Clark did and she said it felt like something stopped right over her head, insane.
590 mph
I want to say, I normally get a little angry from a lack of recognition of the humanity as someone who survived or the way things are presented that give me PTSD. However, you are excellent at telling our tales. You have respect, facts, and compassion. I thank you for that
God bless you!
Ohh how I appreciate these visuals (photos of locations)!
Well done. Thank you.
I just realised that if the plane hadn't hit on such a weird angle in the South Tower, and had gone in straight like the first plane did, Stanley probably would've been killed instantly. The fact it hit on the right side of that face and on an angle likely saved his life.
I think when he says the wing clipped his office he means the whole floor, as in, his office floor. Stanley's first language is not English and I've seen several interviews with him where he has a funny way of describing things, but that being said he has stated that he saw the plane coming towards him and his floor.
It's also possible (actually quite likely) that the wing clip was a piece of the wing or some other debris which he thought was the wing.
Stanley is a great character and speaks in a very expressive, animated way. His recall, when crossed with Brian Clark is slightly (and I say this with the greatest respect)…exaggerated.
I've seen many videos with Stanley and Brian telling their stories about how they survived the horror of 9/11. It's wonderful to see that they are still brothers to this day, they have a bond with each other that will last a lifetime. Bless them and everyone who was impacted and suffered on that horrific day 🙏❤️
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the WTC. When I went to New York, both times I went. The only time I’ve seen the Statue of Liberty was from the windows of the South tower observation deck. at one point during the exploration with my friend we got off the elevators and there was a floor and it was empty like the screenshot of this video. I was dumbfounded there were no walls and it looked very strange to me. I didn’t understand the construction at the time. Your videos are great. Keep them coming.
Blame it on Jorge did a really fascinating “lost footage” video on 9/11 a few days ago.
Basically, trying to find a photographer that was in the North Tower on the morning of 9/11 photographing for a conference they were having at Windows on the World before the plane hit that day. So early morning.
Of course that was the great Stanley and the hero Brian Clark what a incredible history
This is one of your better video’s because you’ve used a diagram so as viewers can visualise the floor layout, the info on the elevator crashing thru on the 76th floor is something I haven’t heard before.
For some reason I feel you should cover Hurricane Katrina. For me, that was another big event in the early 2000s like 9/11.
Imagine all the people in the south tower above floor 76 That were watching what was going on in the north tower overlooking the plaza. They would’ve been watching people jump because they were trapped to being in the exact same situation themselves. They were probably thanking God that it was the other tower and not theirs
That’s why many people started leaving even though they were being told not to leave. They saw the people jumping and decided that’s enough I’m out of here
Youve done victims & survivors justice with this well done video
Stanley has the craziest survival story by far
Lord I can’t do this, you take over
It's crazy that they asked ppl not to evacuate seeing what was happening with the North Tower...
Stan the Man !!!!
I love your 9/11 videos! I love your delivery of facts and how straightforward you are with the content. Thank you for making these. It's refreshing to have new videos about this atrocity that took and continues to take so many lives. I still can't wrap my mind around how big these buildings were.
Can you do the lady who survived the impact of the north tower and can see her waving through the large hole? Rest in peace Edna Cintron.
@annetteslifeThere is a documentary about Edna Cintron called "The Waving Woman" that can be found here on TH-cam.
@julianrabbit I saw that and it was shocking and sad.
Imagine being stuck in one of the elevators in one of the two towers, and the tower you are in collapses while you are in the elevator…
or worse still jet fuel pouring into your elevator, the elevator cables snap, burning to death, must have been like hell on earth.
Tragically, around 200 people lost their lives in elevators during the 9/11 attacks. Tim Brown, who acted as a liaison between the FDNY and NYC's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), attempted to rescue people trapped in a lobby elevator. Despite their efforts, they could only save two individuals.
Fortunately for Tim, he was called away before the South Tower collapsed. He was in the Marriott Hotel when debris from the South Tower split it in half, but he miraculously survived. His firsthand accounts of that day are compelling - I recommend watching his interviews on TH-cam.
I remember a story about exactly this in the north tower.
The elevator had its cable snapped by the first plane, it and it's occupants fell all the way down almost to the lobby as it was stopped by its emergency brakes, only a few inches of clearance between the floor of the elevator and the top of the doorway opening in the lobby, overtop of the pool of jet fuel that came down the shaft around the elevator car and puddled in the elevator pit. I forget the firefighter's name, but he found them and could only get the doors open to see their feet; e brakes locked the car into place, and fire fighter could only watch their feet as they cooked. As he did and realized he didn't have the tools, another fireman I can't remember the name of came and took charge of the elevator rescue. They found this fireman with his jaws of life at the doorway of that elevator, meaning he went back out to his truck to get the jaws of life and went back into that damn building before it collapsed. There is a video of the first fireman I mentioned telling the story, if anyone recognizes these heroes please name them for me and anyone interested!
@@jacoblott1617 that sounds like Tim Brown’s story and he was trying to rescue those occupants from the South Tower.
It’s like being in a crosswalk at an intersection when a wreck occurs and you somehow get in the middle of it but don’t actually get hit.
Ive seen a couple shorts that I couldn't believe like that, I think we do get a little help from somewhere sometimes
You got a few things wrong. Stanley had to go though a tremendous amount of debrit. Falling ceilings, hanging live wires, sheet rock everywhere. He was very worried he was gonna die one way or another. Not to mention the air pressure trying to suck him out. He even saw parts of the plane. There was so much debrit, he couldn't even get out. Stanley was not part of the group that said not to go downstaris. Brian Clark was the man who ran into that group. They decided to go up, while this was occurring, he heard Stanley yelling for help. Ron Defrancesco went with him. Ron was overwhelmed by smoke, and couldn't continue foward with Brian, so he went to follow the group that went upstairs. Brian proceeded and heard Stanley behind a collapsed wall. Stanley had to climb to the top of that wall and Brian pulled him over. Then they went back to that staircase and went down and found the debris was passable. They escaped and were east I think of trinity church when the building collapsed. As for Ron, he was the only one of the group that went upstairs to survive. He says he was almost passing out from the smoke and that the others up there with him started laying down to sleep(they were definitely sucumbing to the smoke) He left and started down the stairs and had to run through a wall on fire or something like that causing some severe burns, then he escaped the building and is officially known as the last man out of the tower, so close in fact that he claims he was hit by a fireball as he was escaping that threw him foward many feet and caused more severe burns. It was the last thing he remembered before waking up in the hospital.
Also, Stanley made downstairs by elevator. A guard asked his group to come back up. A secretary was scared so she left anyway, while the rest of the group went up also by elevator.
I know Stanley.He has alot of videos & I’m so glad that him & Brain were able to escape.
He said "God, You take this!" ...He gave Jesus the glory. I know it was Devine intervention and orchestration in his story and others for sure.
You need some divine intervention for your spelling lol
God is also the reason 3k people were murdered.
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@@kurtsambles5409 but 20k people in that general area also survived
And how many said the same and didn't make it? That what you see is called "confirmation bias" and you belive it because it fits into your narrative.
This guy has been on a 9/11 binge lately
Who isn't
I was 17 when 9/11 happened. Certain images are burned in my mind forever.
People in the south tower reported seeing people jumping from the north tower. The ones who saw this knew they couldn’t stay and left.
I always wonder how the woman he was on the phone with felt when she saw the plane hit the south tower and then probably hearing the line go dead. Must have been the biggest sigh of relief when she found out he did survive
I’ve watched so many docs and that man is such a good storyteller of what he saw that day.
Brian`s employees decide to go up the stairs because they thought they can get rescue from the roof sadly the door was locked sealing there fate all of them were killed when south tower collapse at 9.59am
He mentioned in a documentary that the only way he survived is that his office floor collapsed and he fell down through the ceiling into the floor below his and he met up with another man that became his lifeline to surviving.
You are mixing up Clark and Stanley’s stories. It was Clark that Was with the group that went back up. After Clark saved Stanley they went directly down
That was Lahaina.. Allegedly
That someone else was Brian Clark. The group with him went back up the stairs . Brian rescued Stanley and they went downstairs. Brian's group that went back up parished
Love the way Stanley tells his story.
Are all or some of these renders? Especially the one looking out the windows with all the papers flying or the one with the broken debris of doors or whatever
Why would security block people from exiting? If people trying to get out of the South Tower were encouraged to stay in the lobby to escape falling debris outside, that’s one thing-but the security officers were making people go *back upstairs to their offices* …! Sounds more to me like the companies in the South Tower were using them like prison guards to make victims get back to work.
I believe Stanley said he saw the face of whoever was flying the plane!
Didn't one guy survive by clinging to a piece of the building, as it fell? Or was that fake?
I love these videos, keep them coming!
that graphic on minute 7:43 where is it from?
There has already been a bombing in the WTC at 1993. And a lot of people on that day remembered that and a lot of them knew that last time the best opportunity would be to go up to the top (they probably thought it was another bomb that exploded). And the most of them who chose to go down didn't think it would be a big deal. They've had no idea of what was about to happen. So sometimes I think, if there wasnt that previous attack then they maybe would have been more alerted, going down the staircase a little bit faster but not panicking. A view deaths more could have been prevented
Stanleys story is a lot better when told by him and the guy that saved him
Tell us about "The 9/11 Surfer" Next. Ive never heard his full story. Hes always has it behind a paywall, so ive only heard parts. If you could find the full story, youre the man.
There are a lot of interviews with him not behind a paywall. Even on Joe Budden channel. I feel like the firefighters who survived in the same stairwell have a little better story. Meaning a little more interesting.
@@BillyBong They do have a more interesting story.
I found the surfers story on youtube a while ago (a portion at least) I just remember it stops right as hes telling of the building collapsing, with the interviewer wanting you to subscribe to his podcast to hear the rest. and I realized that there wernt many videos about him here or I had a hard time finding them. This was probably a few years ago. About to try to look him up again.
But from what ive heard, the guy kind of lost consciousness and doesnt remember exactly how he survived.
He just remembers closing his eyes, afraid to open, still holding onto the same railing, standing on the same flooring, but he remembers a feeling of weightlessness. As if the entire chunk of wall and floor he was holding onto had detached and became airborne.
I think the surfer, and the group of firefighters and the lady that accompanied them were considered the only survivors of the collapse that were pulled from the rubble.
It was sad, every hospital in that city had a full staff on standby, waiting and on call for ambulances to bring in survivors from the collapse but they never came. If you were in that building you had no chance except for the aforementioned people and it's a miracle that even they made it.
Where can I find the originals of those diagrams like at 7:43 which are annotated with survivor and casualty accounts?
Most amazimg telling & by you too. Great explanation.
1979 to the 1990s Ebasco Services, Inc occupied floor 78-90 in the South Tower. I worked on floors 83 and 86.
After watching many of your 9/11 related videos, I've come to the sincere conclusion that you are a well-spoken and intelligent individual.
Personally, I feel that if you were to start making JFK assassination related content, it would broaden your channels content spectrum, and with your skill set for making educated videos, it's something you would excel in.
The PA system did say that at first. Then John O'Neil told them to change the announcement and he ordered evacuation of the South Tower.
It must've been an inferno 😢
In the north tower because of the angle in which American flight 11 impacted, no one on the impact level or above was able to escape.
How many people survived from the impact floors and floors above?
Im still curious about the Cantor Fitzgerald guy with the Sony Handicam on floor 104
They had an animation of what Stanley saw in a 9/11 documentary. They made it seem like the planes right wing just missed him, like he was in the south east corner. The diagram in this video shows him above the left wing in the south west corner.
Yea I remember that. They exaggerated a bit, but it doesn't cheapen his story at all. I know that isn't what your saying, a whole plane hit the man's floor lol
Can you link the document you keep showing
Stanley Praimnath only became friends with Brian Clark later, they didn't know each other until 9/11.
@2:15 he went down to the main lobby by elevator and went all the way back up.
George Sleigh survived the north tower impact…
which floor was he on?
@@mvfc7637 91 i believe, the plane was only a few feet from his head…look it up..George sleigh…
@@mvfc763791; two floors below impact and the highest survivable floor.
Before the South Tower was hit, was there a lot of debris coming down outside by the exit from the mall furthest away from the towers?
yes, light pieces of plastic and metal, paper, drywall, and even some steel columns ejected out of its placement
Yes. Sadly people did evacuate from both Towers yet were injured or killed by debris. That's another reason why the PA System didn't want everyone to evacuate at first
By what law can you refuse someone to leave a building? Is it a prison? A company should not be able to detain people against their will inside an office and def not when all hell breaks out.
What about the women that survived with third degree burns on her arms , and blood all on in her eyes, that got saved be the man in the red bandanna?
Ling Young. She was on 78th floor skylobby
@@melvynsngltn27 I think they mean Donna Spera
What I love is here it is 25 years later and we pulled that dude out of a hole…..and went to bin Landen’s house and we all no what happened…I’m pretty sure most of the old taliban is dead…osama is prob friend requesting me last week for all I no…he hid in plane sight for years and we found him up in the mountains….he was on dialysis that’s how we found him…sick.god bless all the Americans that died that day…I love u…Pittsburgh p.a loves u and never forgets what happened….i remember the logo was we will never forget…
Wasn't this one of the infamous"Gore Floors?"
Yes. It was the sky lobby
he was about the gore floor, which as at the 78th floor at the 2nd skylobby in the building, stanely was in the 84th-85th floor
@@supermanepic15 Stanley was stuck at the 81st floor.
I forget which tower or her name but was one red hair Woman on 91st floor of one of towers and was only person to make it out past the 87th floor I believe or something like that
The roof doors were closed and locked. We know exactly what happened to those people who went to try to get on the roof 😢
His floor was hit by the wing. Not his actual office
The doors to the roof were locked. Helicopters above the building didn't see anyone on the roof and they were deliberately looking to try to save people.
Thats false! Even if there had been people they would have been unable to rescue them! The top of the buildings quickly became engulfed into thick black smoke! Just check the pictures!
And when Stanley got out he got someone in a pickup truck to take him to Brooklyn and Brian thought it was all a dream until Stanley got a hold of him later
Actually what happened was Stanley gave him a business card after they ran from the south tower’s collapse. Brian did think Stanley was a dream when they first got separated, but when Brian remembered the business card, he reached into his pocket and noticed he still had the business card. That reassured him that Stanley was real.
Stanley and Brian said they had to move some things and crawl over some stuff in the stairwells.
I heard some stories of people passing people going up, that people thought, hoped their would be helicopters rescuing them from the roof.
He watched it coming towards him and heard it accelerating …😬
The noise when the plane takes off but multiplied by 1000 must be the craziest thing ever
Buenos días. haz un video sobre lo que habría pasado si en vez de los aviones que ya conocemos las torres hubieran sido impactadas por Jumbos 747. Gracias.
Stanley’s office + view was looking SOUTH in the south tower (so he may have never even seen or heard the north tower impact).
D-Ginger - - you should do a 9/11 story on the NYC firefighter👨🏻🚒 who was talking to an “angel” while walking over the Brooklyn Bridge (he was on an Oprah special); others said he was on the bridge by himself (alone) - yet he claims he had a conversation with a man who walked next to him - - from the twin towers over the entire bridge. When he turned to give the man a bottle of water - the man was gone.
The man told him it was his job to tell the story about what happened that day.
John Morabito. He was actually Engine 10 firetruck driver. The first fire company to arrive at the North Tower
@@melvynsngltn27 thanks. I saw his video several years back. Amazing inspiring story.
Ever hear the story about the person who survived the World Trade Center but got caught up in the Staten Island Ferry crash later?
No, I must know more!
@@jacoblott1617 His name was Darius Marshall. He got hit by debris when the towers fell and lost consciencenss. His family found him and identified him at the hospital.
In 2003, He boarded a ferry to Staten island. The captain (ironicly named Capt Smith) of the fairy had been taking back medication and blacked out at the wheel. The ferry crash killed 11 and named 70 other people. Darius Marshall Was one of the 11.
@@jacoblott1617 Apparently, I'm not allowed to give you the story. TH-cam trashed my answer. Look up the name Darius Marshall and Staten Island Ferry.
@@actioncom2748 thank you, sir. I hate how TH-cam does comments now, your efforts are still appreciated greatly
Makes you wonder why. They didn’t use helecoptor to save more up on the roof
One police helicopter approached the roof but backed away due to the smoke. Besides, the heavy fire doors were locked so no one could get there.
No one made it to the roof.
7/11 was a part time job
Donald trump was down there on 7/11
@@gaileyd.morgan6573 he got a red slurpee and some skittles
@blakecampbell-taylor2865 good one 😆👍
I think he may have seen the tail. I’m sure it was unrecognizable at that point. Or a piece of the wing may have exploded up
Stan the Man !
Stanley. Crazy story.
Helicopter rescue teams failed rescuing people traped at the top and also at the windows. They would have saved a quiet number of people seen beside the window s
I thought Stanley was BLIND and his dog helped him down??
@candymcdaniel5946 That was Michael Hingson, helped down by his dog Roselle from the 78th floor of Tower One.
2:17 no it was the elevator
Everyone knows what happend to anyone who went to roof.
1:15 the was a exit for the jumpers…
There was also an exit too on the floor
@@MHAdventures-b5lyeah but the fire was blocking it
God directed alot of souls that day.❤
And allowed others to suffer horribly.
Was it your channel that showed the woman waving from the hole where the airplane went through? And someone identified her as being a woman from Europe, I think, who was clearly okay, trying to get some attention in the hopes, I suppose, of getting a helicopter rescue, which would've been impossible. I don't know why we ever built such ridiculously tall buildings in the first place. ("love of money is the root of all evil") Cramming so many people vertically into a relatively tiny space leads to a lot of unfortunate things, especially in terms of human behavior. And when the workday ends, and all these people funnel on down and out of the buildings, it's like kicking over an anthill or a termite mound.
Why? Lack of space … simple as this! And because we can! Does not happen every day that passenger planes get flown into such buildings. To see this a reason to question them is not really common sense … for most other incidents they are equipped!
Se podía haber evitado el 11 de septiembre
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams
And nobody claims it did, Mr Strawman.
The beams don’t need to melt, just weaken.
When steel beams are heated by constant fire, they lose 50% of their strength, which leads to their collapse, since the weight they support is enormous. 02.07.24.
Nobody ever said that they melted! We know how steel beam behave in a hot kerosene fire … they start bending, losing their stability. Having tons of building sitting on crinkled and crunchy steel beams gravity becomes stronger than the buildings stability there!
I was next to it
I still can't believe that story,that he hid under his desk as a 767 heavy was urtling towards the south tower at over 550 miles p.h,and the impact was right above him, sorry but I still think that that's a tad over exaggerated,just my opinion
Before he dived under his desk, the last image he saw would've been the plane hurtling directly towards him. Had it not banked sharply in the last instant before impact, it would've hit his office so I think he just assumed it had, based on the plane's approaching angle before he got under his desk. Obviously just my opinion too.
Especially with all the jet fuel and flying debris, however the towers are over 200‘ x 200‘ so would that be far enough away from the crash zone of an airplane like that?
How? You also have to remember that 12 people survived the South Tower skylobby crash some people were still alive and too badly injured or amputated and couldn't move most were killed instantly
If the plane hadn't banked sharply it might have missed the building all together
@@carlosblank6629 yes I noticed that,of the plane was to carry on flying in a straight line,it would have missed the Tower completely, unlike Atta's,which was totally in line with the North Tower
Oh I remember that guy who had helped Stanley and they're still close friends to this day, Brian Clark is his name and as Stanley looked at the window he had heard the plane engine's whinning as it was "at eye level" to omg I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to be in Stanley's shoes and seeing that would be horrifying but I'm not sure if Brian had seen the plane to or not but hats off to Brian helping Stanley. I hope all is well them, bless you two.
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