![]() ![]() The sacrifice of New York firefighters and police is well-known. At the impact area and above, survival was limited to just a handful of people in the south tower who made an amazing escape.įour hundred seventy-nine rescue workers died making the evacuation a success. In each tower, 99% of the occupants below the crash survived. When a second jet hit the south tower 16 1⁄2 minutes later, the pattern was virtually the same. The line between life and death that morning was as straight as a steel beam. But on his floor and below, an amazing story unfolded: Nearly everyone lived. He didn’t know it at the time, but that concrete floor was the bottom of a tomb for more than 1,300 people. He looked up at exposed steel beams and the concrete underside of the 92nd floor. Sleigh, 63, manager of technical consistency at the American Bureau of Shipping, crawled from the rubble. The walls, the ceiling and bookshelves crumbled. The jet exploded into the 93rd through 98th floors of the World Trade Center’s north tower with force equal to 480,000 pounds of TNT. Looking out his window, he had time to think just three things: The wheels are up, he underbelly is white, and man, that guy is low.”Īn American Airlines Boeing 767 was hurtling toward him at 500 mph, loaded with 92 people and 15,000 gallons of jet fuel. NEW YORK - George Sleigh, a British-born naval architect, was on the phone in his 91st floor office when he heard the roar of jet engines. ![]()
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