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On 9/11 were four crashes.
Of the four
- the first was caught on video by the Naudet brothers.
- the pentagon crash was seen only by a crappy camera
- and there was noone in Pennsylvania to film the last crash.
So it was obviously Flight 175 that had the more "visual" impact. It is that one that got carved into million of people psyché.
Everybody was looking at the burning first tower when Flight 175 impacted, live on CNN. That was the climax, the most horrific moment of the day (only equalled in horror by the jumpers, perhaps).
Now it happens that Flight 175 nearly collided with a couple of airliners - for example, Midex 7
http://www.historycommons.org/entity...rald_earwood_1
Had Flight 175 smashed into Midex 7 and not WTC, the visual / psychological impact of 9/11 would have been greatly diminished.
Another intriguing question is - what happen to the intact South Tower ? does the (inevitable) collapse of her twin doom it ? or can it be preserved, as a kind of giant middle finger to Al-Quaeda ?
Of the four
- the first was caught on video by the Naudet brothers.
- the pentagon crash was seen only by a crappy camera
- and there was noone in Pennsylvania to film the last crash.
So it was obviously Flight 175 that had the more "visual" impact. It is that one that got carved into million of people psyché.
Everybody was looking at the burning first tower when Flight 175 impacted, live on CNN. That was the climax, the most horrific moment of the day (only equalled in horror by the jumpers, perhaps).
Now it happens that Flight 175 nearly collided with a couple of airliners - for example, Midex 7
http://www.historycommons.org/entity...rald_earwood_1
Had Flight 175 smashed into Midex 7 and not WTC, the visual / psychological impact of 9/11 would have been greatly diminished.
Another intriguing question is - what happen to the intact South Tower ? does the (inevitable) collapse of her twin doom it ? or can it be preserved, as a kind of giant middle finger to Al-Quaeda ?