12/27/2023 0 Comments Did anyone survive the tower collapse![]() Anyone on the ground walking too close to the building at that moment was badly injured or crushed by the falling debris and bodies. Office papers floated like confetti from the cavernous hole created by the plane’s impact. Passengers with their seatbelts still fastened fell from the sky along with body parts. One man, struck by the plane’s debris, lost his arm while running away from the hotel. Marriott Hotel guests fled onto the plaza in underwear and bathrobes. It disintegrated like tinder in a raging forest fire. The fireball erased our marble lobby in a flash. ![]() Luckier people waiting for an elevator were blown into the lobby of the Marriott Hotel intact and alive, while others tragically, were instantly incinerated standing at the bank of elevators where I had stood an hour before and where I would have been waiting at that very moment, had I not shown up early for a meeting that was cancelled. The immense power of the impact’s explosion affected most of the upper floors – all the way up to the top at 110, down past 78, where it blew out the very elevator I rode up in just an hour before, igniting everything all the way, past us, setting fire to the 77th floor. ![]() Almost immediately after the impact and unknown to us, most of the plane’s 24,000 gallons of fuel rapidly emptied into a freight elevator shaft, coursing down 93 stories, passing us on the way to the basement, where it became a massive fireball, exploding upward into the north tower lobby. Adrenaline started pumping through my body and my breath got shorter and faster, but I had to function.
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