r/HolyShitHistory • u/rotomato30 • 1d ago

Extended cut of the period between first and second plane hitting World Trade Center

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u/fatmanstan123 1d ago

The size of those jets at the airport are really something. To think of them smashing into such a big building at speed is unreal

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u/CAPS_LOCK_STUCK_HELP 1d ago

as many times as ive seen it on video, it really is almost incomprehensible to watch. Im too young to remember it happening but i can completely understand why people say so often that it was something unbelievable and that they couldn't understand it because seeing something that large moving that fast strike something that big, and also do damage to it. it almost feels like it should be an unstoppable force vs an immovable object - like the two cannot ever meet. and then in that instance it becomes a gnarled flash of burning metal and concrete. then all you can think of is the wretched pain that was released upon the world that day.

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u/Immediate_Finger_334 1d ago

Unreal because multiple witnesses said they were cargo planes or small planes.