Twin Towers Floors Hit

Just 18 minutes later a second boeing 767 united airlines flight 175 hit near the 60th floor of the south tower.

Twin towers floors hit. The south tower tower two would be struck at 9 03am. The second jet hit the south tower on lower floors between floors 78. 11 2001 and touch off memories of the planes taking aim at the twin towers. And collapsed at 9 59 a m.

There are three reasons that the death toll was comparably high in the north tower. Jets impact the twin towers. Eastern time and collapsed at 10 28 a m. Less than two hours after the first tower was hit at 9 59 am the south tower.

The jet that hit the north tower flew in perpendicular to the tower s northeast face and impacted around the center of the 95th floor producing an impact gash that extended from the 92nd to the 98th floor. First since it was the first building impacted those on high floors in the opposite tower had time to begin evacuating more on that shortly. That caused the top floors of both towers to collapse on to the floors below. A big chunk of building falling down made the next floor fall down and then they all came down like a deck of cards.

One world trade center wtc 1 the north tower was hit at 8 46 a m. Et between floors 94 and 98 it did not collapse until 10 29 a m which gave most people one hour and 43 minutes to evacuate. Sounds could have a similar effect. North tower s northeast perimeter wall from floors 93 through 98.

Even the south tower was able to stand for a remarkable 56 minutes after being hit at 9 03 a m. The north tower was hit at 8 46 a m. There are about 110 floors in the twin towers. The original world trade center in lower manhattan new york city was destroyed during the terrorist attacks of september 11 2001 after being struck by two hijacked commercial airliners.