Sputnik reported that Japanese photographer Kei Sugimoto posted on YouTube a video shot with a professional camera, capturing in detail the moment the World Trade Center 's twin towers collapsed during the terrorist attack. September 11, 2001 in America.
Photographer Sugimoto captioned the video: “I filmed the scene of the World Trade Center collapsing on September 11, 2001. Shot from the roof of 64 St. Mark's Place in New York using a Sony VX2000 camera with remote converter.
The video showed clouds of black smoke rising from the towers and then both buildings collapsing.
The 9/11 events were a series of four terrorist attacks involving the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda targeting the United States that took place on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
On this day, four commercial aircraft from the northeastern United States are scheduled to land in California. While the planes were en route, they were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists.
Two of them, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York, respectively. Within 1 hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed.
A third flight, American Airlines Flight 77, departing from Dulles International Airport was hijacked while flying over Ohio. At 9:37 a.m., Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, collapsing part of the west side.
The fourth and final flight, United Airlines Flight 93, was initially bound for Washington DC but crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after a struggle between passengers and hijackers. Investigators determined that Flight 93's target was the Capitol or the White House.
The September 11 terrorist attacks left 2,977 people dead, including 343 firefighters and 60 police officers. Not only American citizens but citizens of 92 other countries also died.
In New York, 2,753 people became victims of the terrorist attack, in the Pentagon, 184 people were killed and 40 victims in Pennsylvania.
19 terrorists were also killed in the attacks, 15 of whom were Saudi citizens, 2 from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 1 from Egypt and 1 from Lebanon .
