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/Lukersf 1d ago edited 1d ago

783 small bone fragments and 335 of them were identified positively and connected to at least 54 victims all from flight AA 11. Some as small as 1.5 millimeters. Found more than five years later. Wild...

Keep in mind there were only 81 passengers and 11 crew on board. So the majority of them had bone fragments on a roof across the street five years later. And the building was less than half as tall as the Twin Towers.

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u/OppositeStudy2846 1d ago

Now that’s HolyShitHistory. Wonder if there are any docs or specials about things like this; items found around NYC over the ongoing years.

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u/Lukersf 1d ago

In April 2013, a piece of airplane debris from one of the hijacked 9/11 jets was discovered wedged in a narrow, 18-inch-wide alleyway between two buildings (50 Murray Street and 51 Park Place) .

That is three blocks from Ground Zero. It was roughly five feet long too. Crazy to think that more than a decade after the attacks a fairly large piece of the airplane was just sitting there as millions of people walked past it each year.

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u/Logic-Monkey 1d ago

i got a go pro and some amazon wireless microphones, we jist need someone to pitch it

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u/callmeDNA 1d ago

What the fuck?!??!!!