Top Floor Of The Twin Towers
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Top floor of the twin towers. Several scientific studies explaining why the towers ultimately collapsed including those exploring the thermodynamics of 9 11 8 have been written. A man caught in the explosion of one of the world trade center towers rode bits of the falling building down to safety. From the 107th floor visitors took an escalator to the 110th floor to experience breath taking views of all of manhattan. In layman s terms it was pure hell.
The impacts of the planes sent an aviation fuel fireball through half a dozen levels of each tower igniting desks chairs shelving carpeting work space partitions wall and ceiling panels plastics of. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Even though they were ultimately built to 110 stories each the twin towers were originally planned to have 80 to 90 floors. And 2 world trade center the south.
The original world trade center was a large complex of seven buildings in the financial district of lower manhattan new york city united states it opened on april 4 1973 and was destroyed in 2001 during the september 11 attacks at the time of their completion the twin towers the original 1 world trade center the north tower at 1 368 feet 417 m. Terrorism against the world trade towers and the us department of defense pentagon killed thousands of people on september 11 2001. A view from the 110th floor of the world trade center tower two was unlike any other with sights of rockefeller center the met life building the citigroup center and the chrysler building although there was an anti suicide fence built to protect patrons from falling or. One world trade center known colloquially as freedom tower was built on the site of the original towers.
The original one world trade center also known as the north tower tower 1 building one or 1 wtc was one of the twin towers of the original world trade center in new york city it was completed in 1972 stood at a height of 417 metres 1 368 ft and was the tallest building in the world until 1973 when surpassed by the sears tower in chicago it was distinguishable from its twin the.