by techdragon on 2/26/22, 11:47 AM
Definitely a new angle, but it’s also strange after so many years to find good footage like this. The random extra stuff at the end make it feel very genuinely “found an old miniDV tape with some footage of forgotten about.”
But it’s also just really weird to hear people talking so clearly the moment after it happens. It’s preserved a slightly surreal moment of shock quite well.
by smoyer on 2/26/22, 1:09 PM
Something that this angle shows (and that other footage I've seen hints at) is that the second plane would have missed the tower without a pretty serious turn in the last few seconds. That plane is screaming (we're used to a jet that size flying with it's flaps and landing gear down if (roughly) level at that altitude. This turn would have been higher than normal G forces!
by m348e912 on 2/26/22, 11:30 AM
It's crazy that someone sat on the footage for 21 years and it just got made public now. Makes you wonder what else other footage or details are out there that has yet to be shared online.
by mgdlbp on 2/26/22, 7:30 PM
Fascinating are the words of netizens of the time in guestbooks, forums, and homepages of sites large and small that have been immortalized in the Internet Archive [a].
The Internet Archive also has an extensive collection of televised news footage from ‑‑09‑11 and the following weeks; I'm often reminded by its prominent placement in the 'Video' section of their navbar. Ironically, both their original 9/11 web collection (assembled by the Library of Congress shortly after the event) and the related Pew reports on internet use following 9/11 are lost to time; remnants can only be found in the Wayback Machine [0]. For whatever reason, it was replaced with one apparently curated by the September 11 Museum around 2008 [1].
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20011014012316/http://september1...
[1] https://www.archive-it.org/collections/1029
[a] an aside: I find the archived sites of schools (of all kinds) from the time particularly captivating. Perhaps the abridgement of time enhances their liminal nature. Or maybe it's the feeling of sincerity in guestbook messages and the personal homepages of students and staff.
by pygar on 2/26/22, 9:13 PM
The word "terrorism" wasn't yet in the common vernacular. The people in the video were having a hard time articulating what they saw "That was a..dead on kill, he did it on purpose!".
by melling on 2/26/22, 11:06 AM
We see the plane around 2:05.
by rendall on 2/26/22, 2:30 PM
Back in 2001/2002, I went to a series of seminars hosted by the artist Natalie Jeremijenko. One of the presenting artists had footage of the Pentagon attack, taken from a camera he had set up on the Potomac River. He refused to give anyone else access to it. "I want to think about how to best present this footage." he said. I still have never seen that footage again to this day, and the selfishness makes me angry whenever I think of it.
by Simon_O_Rourke on 2/26/22, 6:03 PM
I was in NYC that week, visiting my in-laws, to be honest I've avoided watching this, because it's trauma is still raw, and viewing it again isn't going to provide any closure for me.
by ydnaclementine on 2/26/22, 8:47 PM
Shoutout to the guy at 2:45 who was able to immediately identify the second plane as a United plane
by nobrains on 2/26/22, 3:21 PM
by mhb on 2/26/22, 5:27 PM
YouTube doesn't have that image stabilization any more?
by pcdoodle on 2/26/22, 8:32 PM
Same pre impact flash is seen in this one as well (6:00).
by davidmurdoch on 2/26/22, 5:10 PM
The "(2001)" makes it seem like this is a link to a video titled "Newly published 9/11 footage" that was posted in 2001. Maybe "Newly published 2001/09/11 footage" would be a better title?
by throwaway5486nv on 2/26/22, 8:46 PM
Structural engineers please explain how can a tall concrete building collapse when hit in the middle?
by kungito on 2/26/22, 11:38 AM
is there anything new?
by TacticalCoder on 2/26/22, 1:59 PM
I'll just say this: many here are convinced our AI overlords have landed and we'll soon all be out of jobs and deepfakes are undistinguishable from the real thing.
So I'll say this: if you believe AI is advanced, then in 2022 it's not possible to take this video for granted and you have to take into account that all evidence surfacing from now may be deepfakes. I'm not saying they are: I'm saying you have to keep that in mind.