Both towers down after plane crashes
Both the 1,360-ft towers have now collapsed. More than 50,000 people work in
the complex.
Witness 'Dr Jim' described the second kamikaze attack: "A small plane - it
looked like a propeller plane - came in from the west and at about the 20 to
25 storey level, it disappeared - and then came the explosion."
Mr Winter, from Darlington, Co Durham, who works in one of the World Trade
Centre towers, said: "Everybody is saying that this is a terrorist attack
and everyone around here is panicking.
"It will have been really busy with people arrive in for work in the
financial district. It is just unbelievable that this is happening. Both
towers have been taken out. I just can't believe this is happening."
A person who answered the phone on the trading floor at interdealer-broker
Cantor Fitzgerald, located near the top of the World Trade Center, said:
"We're f***ing dying," then hung up. There was screaming and yelling in the
background. A follow up call was not answered.
"This has got to be one of the most horrendous terrorist attacks perhaps
ever perpetrated," terrorism expert Chris Yates told Sky News.
At least 1,000 people have been reported injured. The 110-storey 1,360ft
tower is in lower Manhattan.
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