102 minutes that changed America - now on c4

[Treacle Toes]

it seems so obvious to us now with the benefit of hindsight, but did it not cross anyone's mind that it was a possibility the towers could collapse?

Impossible to know, it didn't look like it.

 

[Spion]

"SECRET SERVICE" on that guy's vest

 

[Orang Utan]

Impossible to know.

the troofers know

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Why on earth is the guy with the camera filming so close at that point? Very brave but very stupid.

 

[Wookey]

I remember waking me laddo up after the first impact and telling him what had happened, and straight away he said: "That'll be Osama bin Laden then," and I was like: "who's she?"

 

[Fedayn]

Impossible to know.

Added to the fact that a previous attempt top blow it up in 1993 failed even though it was planted near the base. Doubtless few expected such a collapse when both buildings were struck so high up.

 

[mincepie]

I rember watching this in my school common room.
When the first tower fell, you could see the ENG camera guy at the base of the tower, start to panic, run and then put the camera on the ground (broadcast cameras are kinda heavy) Then cut back to studio
Lots of people at my school found that funny. Sick f***s He probabally died

Kinda stuck in my mind, all this time as it was like seeing the event through somemes eyes.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it seems so obvious to us now with the benefit of hindsight, but did it not cross anyone's mind that it was a possibility the towers could collapse?

They were probably built to withstand fire etc. but all that jet fuel would have made the temperature inside intense and maybe buckled the structure.

I dunno, I'm not a builder

 

[TrippyLondoner]

wow@ the guy talking saying he was 15 mins away from being in that building, monday night football saved his life?

 

[Iguana]

It was just after 2 and I was washing up in the kitchen with my mother when my brother called us from the livingroom. I remember my mum and I exchanging a "what crap is Luke on about now look" before going into him. The first tower had been hit and I asked "on purpose?" and then the 2nd plane hit and we were all "I guess so."

 

[silverfish]

The firefighters rigging up looking grim knowing whats happened shows some fecking grit. next up to bat...............

 

[nick h.]

Hardly anybody thought the collapse was possible - that's a large part of the conspiraloon argument (burning jet fuel isn't hot enough to melt steel or burn the insulation which was protecting it, ergo the CIA must have planted bombs). But there were architects who were convinced a collapse was inevitable, including one who was very familiar with the towers' construction. He was nearby and could see what was happening - he tried to phone the fire department but couldn't get through. There was a documentary about it.

 

[Wookey]

God that clip of the smoke disappearing to leave just blue sky was incredible.

 

[silverfish]

That was the second bottle of wine going down :-(

 

[lizzieloo]

God that clip of the smoke disappearing to leave just blue sky was incredible.

It really was

 

[Sesquipedalian]

They were probably built to withstand fire etc. but all that jet fuel would have made the temperature inside intense and maybe buckled the structure.

I dunno, I'm not a builder

BBC - Horizon.
Sure they did a brilliant programme,explaining why the Two Towers came down in the manner they did.

 

[gnoriac]

The clips of the dust cloud coming from the 2nd tower collapsing were spectacular, far more than the live coverage on the day. Though the sense of dread isn't quite there like there was at the time, I guess because it was unknown territory, nothing remotely similar had happened in our lifetimes.

 

[Iguana]

Then cut back to studio
Lots of people at my school found that funny. Sick f***s He probabally died

He would have survived, there is no report of any cameraman dying. In fact out of both towers only 110 people who worked below the floors that were hit dies. And in the South Tower (the 2nd hit tower which collapsed first) 18 people were rescued. The evacuation was very successful although 416 rescue workers died.

 

[silverfish]

the post collapse coverage is jaw dropping, the lack of activity, other than firefighters filing through the dust and the quiet (relatively) atmosphere. very strange

And the sobbing woman/blue sky shot

 

[Treacle Toes]

Amazing footage now...the fire crews, utter disbelief on their faces.

 

[Orang Utan]

one shot that got to me was all the people crossing the bridge and one woman hesitating not knowing what to do

 

[silverfish]

The emergence of the population when the dust settled.

 

[lizzieloo]

This has totally blown me away

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Weird ending to that.

 

[Treacle Toes]

one shot that got to me was all the people crossing the bridge and one woman hesitating not knowing what to do

Yeah I saw her.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

BBC - Horizon.
Sure they did a brilliant programme,explaining brilliantly why the Two Towers came down in the manner they did.

The way the Towers came down (like they were imploding) fascinates me.

 

[Wookey]

Well, that was as heart-stopping and chilling as I thought it would be. Very well made, and not just a random string of clips.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Having these inane adverts between sections of a programme showing such powerful footage seems so wrong.

I'm watching it on 4+1 and just saw an advert for CSI sofas, the advert location looked like New York, with images of the flat iron building, seems a bit in poor taste really, a film about the devastation of New York, cut to an ad using it to sell sofas.

 

[Wookey]

Yeah I saw her.

I saw her too, lost.

In fact a couple of times I saw the same person twice on different cameras.

 

[lizzieloo]

It's only just occured to me that there was no "narration"

Really didn't need it.