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•     AS IT HAPPENED ::: LIVE TV AT 9:02 am  (primary source)     •

UPDATE: NewsCopter 7 did not shoot this footage. Until recently (Sept. 2009) it was assumed the helicopter was piloted by Paul Smith (R.I.P.), with ABC's John Del Giorno aboard. A second chopper appearing at 9:08 on ABC turns out to be these two men. (See their video of the attack now.) Newly discovered eyewitness testimony shows Chopper 880 for WCBS-AM radio simultaneously broadcast video on WABC— local ABC7 and "Good Morning America." Hear the full radio mp3 that adds a whole new dimension to the unique video.

The video feed from Chopper 880 (tail number N8BQ) played on CNN, FOX News, BBC, and other channels worldwide. "Replay" of this shot has undoubtedly aired more than any other.

It is worth mentioning that the ABC7 New York LIVE broadcast cut away from 8BQ's camera at the precise moment before the impact occurred— to an extreme closeup of the North Tower (See camera angle study). For this reason the word replay above is in quotation marks. Not until three and a half minutes later was the full continuous plane approach and impact seen on ABC7 (and therefore CNN since WABC/ABC7 provided the coverage at the time). Coincidentally, the same angle change happened LIVE on both CBS and NBC... not on NBC4 local, however.

Watch the archived first reports from ABC in high quality now, here at 911conspiracy.tv. Included is the full text transcript until 10:01 am.

One of two LIVE CBS angles that caught the plane, this is the first to show the aircraft. "United Flight 175" descends from the top of the screen. About 5 seconds before impact the angle changes. (See CBS-2 below.) (HQ download here - 11MB)

It is disputed whether or not the swooping descent is possible, considering other videos that seem to depict a contradictory flight path. Is this an optical illusion, a matter of perspective, or an example of prepared video aired as LIVE footage? For example, see this video by genghis6199. For a highly detailed study of MANY flightpaths, including this one, please see "UA175 - the last 12 seconds," by Achimspok.

The camera was 6.23 miles away from the WTC, on a condo building in Queens, near Astoria Park (-73.928882, 40.775984)... perhaps redirected from La Guardia Airport (Thanks, YougeneDebs). This angle gives us one of the earliest views of the plane, when compared to the other 48 available shots. Other long approaches include WNYW Chopper 5 and CBS 9:17 am.

Unlike the WABC broadcast, the coincidental CBS angle switch provided another view of the plane, albeit a glimpse of the starboard wing and tail. Also unlike the WABC shot, CBS used a camera operating from a building near the CBS Broadcast Center (530 W 57th St), on the Trump International Hotel & Tower at 1 Central Park West (Lat 40.768982 Lon -73.981562, 207 meters tall on ground elevated at 78 feet above sea level.... Thanks YougeneDebs)

This angle is not to be confused with a 3rd camera CBS had (in addition to the bright blue CBS 1 shot above). See the non-LIVE network view at 9:04, 9:05, 9:17, and 9:22 am. In comparison with NBC, CBS got their building cam's footage fast - in 1.5 minutes. Note that the South Tower collapse was never seen from either of these CBS angles... only from CBS-1 and Chopper2.

One version of this LIVE footage is continuous: NY local NBC4. A short version comes from a DVD collection titled "As It Happened: September 11, 2001 - A Composite." (download 25.5MB mpeg2) An hours-long version comes from a DVD collection obtained and released by quantumflux432. The archived, nationally broadcast version, NBC (or MSNBC), on the other hand, cuts away to an extreme closeup that shows only part of the explosion at the moment of impact.

The fact that the continuous version was aired LIVE has been proven by an amateur video recently released by YouTube user "johnstayhome." The camera operator focuses on the television as the impact occurs. Although it is certainly not a clear view of the TV, close inspection affirms the LIVE NBC4 footage.

More interesting than the cutaway in the archived NBC shot is the transcript. The dialogue between co-anchors Katie Couric and Matt Lauer, and their telephone witness Elliott Walker raises numerous questions. Could it just be the "fog of war?"

Shot from the Empire State Building— now, once again the tallest building in NYC. As was WB11 LIVE. See a NY1 - WB11 composite image.... The two angles were previously thought to be the same (WB11 being a cropped version). However, recently (July 2009) YougeneDebs used trig to discover the NY1 view "seems to be on the eastern half of the ESB at about the 80th (or so) storey; there is a setback on the floor in mind with lots of gizmos. Notice the horizon behind One Liberty Plaza for an estimate of the height of the perspective." WB11 camera position is detailed below.

Update: New York 1 News has redone their 9/11 website to include a timeline of videos.

Shot from the Empire State Building, like NY1 above, but from a different camera. It was previously thought WB11 (now "WPIX Home of the CW") cropped the NY1 wide shot to create a zoomed view with better aesthetic balance. Recently (July 2009) YougeneDebs used trig to discover the WB11 view "seems to be on the western half of the ESB at about the 88th storey. Notice the Staten Island shore line and structures there behind One Liberty Plaza, the old U.S. Steel building, the black building just to the left of center-frame for an estimate of the height of the perspective." The NY1 camera location is described above.

Download the WB11 mpeg2 (31.8MB) now. As with the NBC4 Chopper 4 footage - and NY1 and WNYW - one source is Dr. Ebbetts's collection, the other quantumflux432

The WPIX angle can also be seen during the WNYW FOX5 LIVE broadcast, before and after the 2nd hit. Replays that aired on UPN9 and CNN can be seen in the Network Views playlist above.

It would be about 5 minutes before WPIX would switch cameras to Chopper 11. View additional footage at 911conspiracy.tv/9-11_TV_archive_2.html

See Chopper 5 page for more, including a slideshow of FOX11 L.A. frame numbered. Or see the best quality rendering available, also in slideshow format, using frames from the Ebbetts mpeg2. Additional downloads: FOX5 .avi - 149MB, and FOX11.mov - 71.3MB, the latter being Eric Salter/Jim Hoffman's best VHS dub.

Kai Simonsen was the camera operator/reporter. Read a short interview/witness account or listen to Jeff Hill's telephone interview.

This is the most contested LIVE airplane video (by no plane theorists). Reasons include:

1. "Fade to black" seems to purposefully hide the "nose-out" of the alleged composite airplane image escaping the layer mask of the WTC South Tower. The absence of static, in addition to the professional opinion of video production expert Steve Wright and the contradictory testimony of Kai Simonsen, all seem to suggest the blackout phenomenon is not signal interruption. Wright asserts the camera's automatic gain control overreacted to the sudden brightness of the explosion. (See his debate with Ace Baker on TV's "Hardfire.") Simonsen has said (in Jeff Hill's phone interview) that the blackout was caused by an untimely equipment change (attaching a 2X lens extender). Was it simply the (well documented) power outage? Or did somebody quickly react to the compositing mistake by pushing a button?
2. "Miracle zoom" ends with the next frame of video introducing the nose of the plane. Coincidence?
3. The FOX5 TV archives do not include this shot, but instead feature a closeup of the North Tower that misses the plane... with the same audio of the original WNYW footage. Additionally, no mainstream 9/11 documentary has included the footage. (That is, excluding a German one.) Broadcast quality footage seems to be unavailable. Of course, the shot is now on the WNYW website.

•     NETWORK VIEWS ::: NON-LIVE NEWS CAMERAS     •

This is the 3rd angle WCBS used on 9/11 to show the plane... all in 3 minutes. Here the plane passes the distance between the Empire State Building and the WTC in two successive playbacks (9:04 and 9:05). The full approach of "Flight 175" is shown from this angle later at 9:17 (and 9:22, abbreviated). That is, the tape starts from pause— with the plane in a circle.

This is important when looking at a "fake" (cropped) version used in "The Center of the World - New York: A Documentary Film" (PBS 2003). This is the origin of the "Detroit Public TV" shot (see 2nd photo at left) made available by the Danish conspiracy website terrorize.dk. Watch the plane appear as if out of nowhere, while the smoke from WTC 1 jumps and gives away the splice in the film that erased the circle around the plane.

See "RE: 9/11 TV Fakery: Smoke & Mirrors by Elpiper" for a study of a similar fake of unknown origin, also made available at terrorize.dk (see 3rd photo at left). These two examples of video editing are not examples of a conspiracy within the mass media - "9/11 TV fakery" - because the video wasn't part of a TV broadcast until the PBS documentary aired 2 years later.

The camera location: General Motors Building, aka FAO Schwartz, E 58th St at Madison Ave... 215 meters tall on ground elevated at 48 feet above sea level Lat 40.763595 Lon -73.972781 (Thanks, YougeneDebs)

CNN had their camera at 5 Penn Plaza up and running early that morning (CNNfn, at 8:00am). One might wonder how this camera didn't capture the 1st WTC hit. Who knows, maybe it was the camera angle President Bush was watching LIVE before going into the Florida classroom.

The 9:10 am footage of the 2nd hit came after ABC7 feed and "affiliate" FOX5 feed. The CNN news anchor was one of few who didn't jump to the conclusion of terrorism. Most famously, FOX5's Dick Oliver reports that "some people said they thought they saw a missile." Watch an extended clip from the archive in high quality.

Notice the plane has yet to appear in color. Many of the amateur videographers got a better shot. Granted, once the news of the disaster broke, there were only 15 minutes to get to the towers. Still, no plane theorists are curious.

Before the 2nd hit, FOX5 Washington showed the angle at 9:01 am. The mystery comes in when researching local network helicopters, because the point of perspective was "hovering over Tonnele Ave, near Bleecker St and Terrace Ave in Jersey City, NJ at about 625 feet above sea level (above ground elevated at 11 feet); 40deg 45min 14.73sec N, 74deg 03min 24.00sec W" (Thanks, YougeneDebs) -- So what chopper filmed it? According to cwair11.com (WPIX, what was WB11), which shows an image of a patch "with all the tail numbers of all the News ships flying that day in NYC," those 6 choppers were 1) N27M, or CBS Chopper2; 2) N311WB, or WB11 Air11; 3) N42F, or ABC NewsCopter7; 4) N4NY, or NBC Chopper4; 5) N5NY, or WNYW Chopper5; and 6) N8BQ, the WCBS-AM traffic chopper that captured images of the LIVE 2nd hit for WABC local and ABC Good Morning America. Of course, the FOX mystery chopper wasn't flying "in NYC," like cwair11.com said....

The shot has been named "Marta" for the version available for download at terrorize.dk (at bottom of page -- or see it in context with the extended news summary). This may seem obscure, but the Danish 9/11 conspiracy website - although wrong in several theories - pioneered research of the plane videos. The fascination with missiles there looks at this FOX angle with justified curiosity. Similar to the WNYW FOX5 LIVE shot, a speedy object flies at the same level as 175, but from the North, just after the impact. Research has shown this vehicle to be the Russian photographer/pilot in a Cessna 172SP, who captured the impact (not the plane) on film while flying down the Hudson.

Also, a replay of FOX5 'Marta' aired at 5:01 pm also.

The leaning camera angle provided additional, subconscious uneasiness for NBC viewers— to the benefit of the real terrorists that day. Literally, viewers would not get the story straight. Hear anchor Matt Lauer be prompted to say the towers WERE leaning. At 9:07 am!

NIST said (see V8) that the footage was taken from a helicopter (source). See also the NIST hi-res image from the WNBC shot. However, the leaning towers - and their stability in that position throughout an hour of archived NBC TV - show that the angle was not taken from a helicopter. The camera was, in fact, on top of the 70-storey GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center, which became an observation deck/tourist attraction - "Top of the Rock" - in 2005. The building is home to most of NBC's New York studios.

Unlike the 3 CBS views that showed the plane in 3 minutes, NBC gave us one (Chopper 4). This "WNBC" angle doesn't appear in the NBC4 Washington archive until 3:02 pm. However, a VHS tape has surfaced that shows the shot on MSNBC at 10:23 am. Update: another MSNBC VHS recording shows the footage 3 minutes before the 1st collapse.

•     AMATEURS IN THE TV ARCHIVE 9/11 - 9/14     •

One of many anonymous amateur videos, the "BBC World" (4:59 pm) angle was actually shared by the ABC, BBC and NBC networks. Due to the dramatic fireball shot after the zoom in, the plane was cut from many of the airings— including its first broadcast by ABC at 1:50 pm. ABC showed a second of the plane at 2:19... and again with no plane at 2:53 pm. See the full length shot on NBC at 11:52 pm (above, with ABC 4:36 pm). It was played many times other than these listed. The plane can hardly be seen.

Regarding camera location: "The point of perspective seems to be along the east bank of the East River beyond the end of Greenpoint Ave in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, Long Island and about 3 miles away from the WTC. Or, at about 40deg 43min 45.35sec N, 73deg 57min 39.57sec W. Note the ConEdison power plant on the other bank." (Thanks, YougeneDebs)

This anonymous amateur shot was named "CBS11" for the version on 11News in a VHS tape no longer available (see image at left). We should change the name once we get a location pinned. The video was not exclusive to CBS, either. BBC played it several times the night of 9/11— see clips at 8:23 and 8:48 pm.

Update May 4, 2010: Source found with audio (July 2009) at Getty Images, <http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1021-135/AP-Archive>, is no longer available. Find it now on a clip with other plane hits (Int'l shot, Fairbanks, Gamma Press) at aparchive.com as story number 314952.

Clifton's airplane crash video aired 9/11 at 5:34 pm with audio, which was muffled but audible. Few 9/11 plane videographers were interviewed on television. Clifton Cloud was one of them, in addition to Evan Fairbanks on ABC (9/11 and 9/12) and Luis Alonso on MSNBC 9/22. Find another Clifton Cloud interview 9/12 at 11:50 am

UPDATE: Newly found TV broadcasts from 9/14 provide a new version in mpeg2 format (see 7:20 into the 05 file). It was broadcast first on CBC Newsworld, exact time unknown. (download high quality avi - requires huffyuv codec, a must have)

The full length Courchesne footage comes from radio-canada.ca. One of the clips above comes from the CBC News program The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney, which aired Oct. 6, 2004. Other versions are unknowns. All (but the new one) are of relatively poor quality. This may be why the wing seems to disappear as "United 175" flies overhead.

Thanks to Elpiper for his translation and notes/comments on the full length video here:

- The second hit occurs at 3:45 and it is only a full 19 seconds later, after first panning left and then apparently twirling in place in a clockwise motion, that we get the first reaction from Courchesne:

Courchesne: "Damn. Did you see that?"
Friend: "WTF?" (roughly translated)
Courchesne: "Are we dreaming, or what?"

The above exchange is the most suspect to me, as it sounds as though they were smiling when they said it, or high, and not in shock at all. They just sound slightly incredulous.
- Right after the "Are we dreaming?" exchange, a guy comes in and says, "Did you see that? A plane flew right into that on purpose, that wasn't an accident!" Courchesne says, "No, no accident, I think I got it on tape".
- At about 5:45 Courchesne says, "Hey isn't that structure unbelievable? A plane crashes into it and it doesn't fall." His friend then says, "It's unbelievable that a plane just went right into it, before our eyes" in a very matter-of-fact voice.
- Around 6:45 his friend tells him of another person falling, and he doesn't see this one either:

Courchesne: "Where? To the right, the left?"
Friend: "It's too late now."
Courchesne: "They started from the top or what?"
Courchesne: "How do you know they're people?"
Friend: "It's the way they fall, how they move the head and the arms, they go down a bit faster than the pieces of paper."

- At 7:55 he asks about someone named Joseph and whether they were gone back inside. "Was he there when the plane arrived?" Friend: "Um yeah, he left..."
- At around 8:30 someone comes by to ask if they saw it, and the person says "So... they hit both buildings?" and Courchesne says to his friend, in French, "The first one was a plane too?" His friend doesn't reply and then quickly points out to someone falling to the left of the tower. This is where the second strike footage ends.
- After being in the building for a bit, Courchesne goes out in the dust and comes back in to tell his friend, whose name we learn is Etienne, to come out by the water because the air is clearer there.
- While walking along the dock he says (on the phone?) "Hey Henri it's our lucky day, we (filmed?) this and..." nothing else is heard.

Info on the videographer is linked here: fondation-langlois.org.... A taste of Luc's 3-D interactive artwork can be found on YouTube here: Panoscope360 - Where are You? Also, listen to the Jeff Hill phone calls from Aug. 6 and Aug. 17, 2008.

The point of perspective, as calculated by Achimspok is -74.015817, 40.709083.

Evan Fairbanks appeared on primetime TV the night of 9/11, after speaking with ABC anchor Peter Jennings earlier around 5:00 pm. This was the first airing, which is not available in the TV archive at archive.org. See the interview above, where the plane is compared to "a bad special effect." Thanks to somebody in Omaha, Nebraska for recording their KETV Channel 7 that afternoon (see also ESPN). The next appearance of the Fairbanks shot in the available TV record is at exactly 6:00 pm on ABC Channel 7 in Washington, WJLA.

In Evan's 10:40 pm interview with Connie Chung, he says he saw the plane in his videocamera's viewfinder: "I suddenly saw a white flash from the left side of the frame. And I... And it lasted long enough for me to be able to identify it as a jet." "Did it really?" the no-planers ask.

To better understand the controversy surrounding this footage, listen to Jeff Hill's telephone interview. Evan says the FBI made him a copy of his tape that morning. It's uncertain whether the lack of audio in the footage is due to operator error - as Fairbanks says in the phone call - or if the FBI dubbing removed the audio:

"'And it was only after the first tower collapsed and FBI agents conducted me to a safe place, that I stopped shooting. When I told them what I had on videotaped, they brought me to their command center. They have the original, which has five minutes of audio. This is a copy. Sorry there's no sound.'" - Fairbanks quote from Linda Linguvic, Greenwich Village Gazette

UPDATE May 1, 2010: A 22-minute long, high quality version of the Fairbanks tape has become available. Perhaps the 5 minutes with sound came before Evan started recording.... For premium quality of the plane image, download the HD clip (224 MPEG-2, 1280 x 720, 16:9, 59.939998 fps, 18.00 Mbps from the 9/10/2008 airing of History's "102 Minutes That Changed America").

The point of perspective, as calculated by Achimspok is -74.011906, 40.709742.

"'I heard a plane fly overhead,' said Park Foreman, 37, an Internet security consultant. 'Then I looked out the window and saw the first tower on fire. I saw another airplane approaching from the south. I put my camera on it and followed it straight into the building. It looked like it went right through.'"
- http://poly.union.rpi.edu/article_view.php3?view=793...

First appeared on CNN at 3:15 pm as 4 still images, since Foreman emailed a few screenshots (being unable to email the entire video). It took a while for CNN to send a car to Brooklyn Heights. (Source: Jeff Hill's telephone interview) See also " park foreman tripod reconstruction," by genghis6199 and "NAKA NOTA PARK," by YougeneDebs (see Naka Nathaniel below).

Video with zoom out above is credited to CNN.com and 911stealth at YouTube. CNN owns Park's footage— and didn't even give him a copy of the digital 8 tape. But Park says he made a digital copy before CNN picked up the tape (Jeff Hill interview). You can see a quality showing of the plane impact video in HBO's 2002 special "In Memoriam." Download HQ mpeg2 clip now.

The point of perspective, as calculated by Achimspok is -73.994422, 40.690908.

This shot is most famous for 1. the "missing" wing (See also PAX-TV); 2. the "UFO" at the end (which is a bird visible only in the 2005 version - see above); and 3. the "nose out" effect... or is it dust and debris? Nina Pineda of ABC7 seems to think it's the nose. As does Aaron Brown of CNN (see 5:27 pm clip) and Dan Rather of CBS: "See the plane actually pierce the building and virtually come out the other side." (appx. 5:45 pm - see CBS 11 clip above or MSTS1 10 of 12 at 7:45 vrt). This illusion of penetration has given rise to video fakery theories involving ALL the images of the plane impact; theories that point out there was NO HOLE there. This fakery was supposedly done to cover up for the alleged compositing error made in the LIVE WNYW shot.

This angle was broadcast on ABC7 at an unknown time of day on 9/11, with a mention of camera location that didn't make sense— Beekman Towers, which is too far North. Other networks played the clip, but without audio. Gamma Press was given credit not only for this shot, but also for the Naudet 1st hit footage shown on CNN 9/12 at 3:07 am and for the Jennifer Spell 2nd hit shot on NBC 9/13 at 8:11 am (see above). Why? Who is Gamma Press? And didn't the FBI collect both the Naudet and Spell footage BEFORE it was aired?

Hezarkhani gave it to CNN. CNN doesn't want him to talk about the video for legal reasons. Hear Jeff Hill's phone interview #1 and call #2, made during a period of suspicion that Jeff and many other ex-No-planers have given up.

First aired after midnight— 9/12 at 12:15 am (not seen above for lack of high quality source), this angle became the second of about 5 that showed the plane impacting the face of the tower in plain view. That includes Park Foreman's angle with the green roof of the Woolworth Building obscuring the crash. See Evan Fairbanks for the debut of images showing actual impact. For No-planers who doubt the plane's authenticity (theorizing hologram-cloaked missiles or even bombs and/or energy weapons!), Evan's words apply for the Hezarkhani/CNN shot: "It disappeared like a bad special effect." This famous shot is sometimes called "Ghostplane" (see Ace Baker video), for the seamless melting of the plane into the building frame. Of course, video resolution and aircraft speed are to blame. Other shots showing the south face impact in half-decent resolution include Luc Courchesne, Jen Spell, and Spiegel TV.

Here's a link to perhaps THE BEST QUALITY copy of Hezarkhani on YouTube (in slow motion HD), which includes a download link. Or, download with audio, from the DVD "CNN Tribute: America Remembers September 11 (2002), converted to avi in lossless huffyuv codec with bob double interlace line correction.

The point of perspective, as calculated by Achimspok is 40.702286 N, -74.01685 W at elevation 9.5m.

Although the air time is unknown, this shot is listed under Amateurs in the TV Archive because the graphic on the NBC version matches the 9/12 and 9/13 graphic on NBC. I just haven't found the clip in the archive. I found it in a compilation of new plane videos.

The History Channel version comes from a documentary of unknown name.

If you have more information, please e.mail matt@911conspiracy•tv

"Jersey Shore" is not an accurate location for this shot. A better name would be "Jersey Turnpike." Watch YougeneDebs's informative video, "Jersey Shore."

The ITV version shows us a rather long approach for "Flight 175," compared to the other 48 angles. Other long approaches include CBS 9:17 am, NBC Chopper4, and WNYW FOX5 Chopper 5. See also CBS 1, the so-called "Divebomber."

Surely it's just a coincidence, but this angle catches a bird flying in front of the tower exactly in time with the plane hitting it. Other angles that include bird flybys are Gamma Press; PAX-TV; Luis Alonso (13 seconds later); NY1 LIVE (8 seconds later); Fairbanks (8-10 seconds later); Hezarkhani (15 seconds); Courchesne (37 seconds); Hlava (8 seconds), Naudet (4 seconds), SY01.... Who cares? Watch THE BIRDS Part 1 to see.

Aired exclusively on ABC— at 6:59, 7:50, & 8:49 pm. Also currently available for download from nytimes.com, with audio in extended length (included above). Naka apparently worked for the New York Times. Either he or someone nearby says he saw the plane. This angle from the East is strikingly similar to the History Channel - NBC angle, not to mention the Park Foreman shot. To help sort out the angle location issue, YougeneDebs provides assistance. See NAKA NOTA PARK.

Note the shaky quality of the video in both airings above (7:50 & 8:49 pm) ... but not in the first airing at 6:59 pm.

Looking at the photo used by NIST in their WTC 2 impact study, it becomes apparent the ownership of the video is in question. Watching the version on CNN, and listening to (ex) anchor Aaron Brown, we learn PAX-TV owns the footage. The NIST photo not only says "copyright 2001 WPIX-TV" - which was WB11 and is now "WPIX, home of the CW" - but also beneath the photo it reads, "...video provided by New York 1." For sake of clarity, we shall call it "PAX-TV." Looking above at the WNBC angle, we see another mistake by NIST - but with camera location, not ownership.

Location of the PAX-TV angle: according to NIST (see V9)....

In response to claims of a "missing wing" in the alleged hologram - or fake video - a high resolution image showing the plane's wing in the sunlight was included in the NIST report linked 2 paragraphs above.

Like the Gamma Press shot and many others, fast birds are seen immediately after the impact. (See this PAX-TV frame) The full length footage was aired on FOX at 7:50 pm, and features more "birds" at the end. For details on the notbirds theory, see THE BIRDS Part 1 for starters.

Download KTLA version mov file, in slow motion as can be seen here.

Update Jan. 30, 2010: Moved from Amateurs list to TV amateurs, when an early airing was discovered— CNN 9/13 at 2:49 am. Seen in the 2002 TLC program "World Trade Center: Anatomy of the Collapse" and in the CBC News program The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney, which aired Oct. 6, 2004... playing after the Luc Courchesne shot. The Pordy angle of the explosion - not the plane - was included in HBO's 2002 "In Memoriam: New York City 9-11-01." Also the plane appeared in "CNN Tribute: America Remembers" (CNN, 2002), but the scene of impact was cut in half, placing the end of the explosion after another scene... and leaving out a half second of the appearing fireball. By cutting and pasting these two portions together, an online version was created that had an unexplained edit seeming to black out the moment of plane debris exit (as the Gedeon Naudet shot did on purpose in every version-- see above.). Full version available at 11-septembre.com/web/terrorize.dk....

"About the Photographer:
pordyworks represents the work of New York-based photographer, Ron Pordy. Although largely self-taught, he has studied formally at FIT and The Maine Photographic Workshops. We are now premiering two new series of images stemming from the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Many of these images are contained in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York, New York Historical Society and the Smithsonian Institute. However, they have never before been shown to the general public by the photographer and depict the magnitude of the horror and heartbreak of that day as captured from a unique elevated position on the East River...." - pordyworks.com

Unfortunately, Pordy's website is down. Hear the Jeff Hill - Ronald Pordy phone call now.  TOP

Update, Sept. 2009: Sky News reports as this "Rarely Seen 9/11 Attack Video Surfaces." Apparently Sky News saw the video on the new National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The shot 1st aired on NBC 9/13 at 8:11 am (as far as I know), with the ownership tag "Gamma Press USA." Download it now in avi format. Again, as with the Naudet 1st plane footage (which, incidentally carried the obscure French name 'Gamma Press' along with 2 other 9/11 airplane videos), the FBI picked up the tape (as they did many other videos, naturally). Quoting Jennifer: "The very first people I gave it to was NBC and then to ABC. All my copies were made from my master and put on VHS, including the one I gave the FBI."

Spell appeared in the film 7 Days in September, by Steven Rosenbaum and CameraPlanet Archive. Yet Jennifer didn't sign over rights to her footage, just for the interviews. Jennifer insists the footage belongs to nobody but her. (source) Hence, her videos have been taken down from YouTube for copyright infringement. (This before the Sept. 2009 release as reported by Sky News... see above.) For CameraPlanet's collections of short, over-edited, and disorganized 9/11 video clips, visit sept11.magnify.net or youtube.com/user/cameraplanetarchive or video.google.com/911anniversary.html. On YouTube, more of Spell's footage is seen: papers-1 and papers-2...

Much to Jennifer's chagrin, her footage has also been aired in the 2007 History Channel documentary "The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction" (Pt.1 at 1:25). One controversial conspiracy theory centers around Spell's video. Is it floating paper or a guidance laser target on the spot the plane hits? I vote paper. Camera location: Degraw St near Van Brunt St standing on ground elevated to 11 feet above sea level (Thanks, Debs!).

UPDATE: Shot by Chris Hopewell and Carol Wells of Eyefull, Inc.... the company name credited at aparchive.com (click link 4 above to video with credits, obtained after registering at aparchive.com). The September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress credits these names, also.

Xenomorph911WTC uploaded a rare segment of CBS coverage featuring extended length footage in good quality. Aired as early as 5:31 pm on CBS9 Washington (not included above - for the lack of an airplane approach, only an explosion), this shot played as Dan Rather introduced the CBS Evening News on 9/11 (without the expletives [see the uncensored extended version]). The angle's name comes from the YouTube channel "tinacart," which features the footage (and 2 other 9/11 plane clips including "Tinacart 2" and Devin Clark. This particular video was filmed from 65 S 11th St, Williamsburg, according to researcher YougeneDebs. Coincidentally, UA175 photographer Robert Clark has been pinpointed at the same building.

It's interesting to note one of Tinacart's favorite YouTube videos is "New 9/11 Footage clearly showing fake planes!" - a satirical piece by Lassegg (currently has 224,173 views). For accusations of fakery, see "How NOT to Fake Plane Crash Videos" by Killtown.

•     AMATEURS NOT IN THE TV ARCHIVE     •

Luis Alonso's footage first aired September 22, 2001 on MSNBC Investigates - 24 Hours at Ground Zero (download German mpeg or see English version). Technically, it's not in THE "TV archive." The shot of "Flight 175" also appeared on National Geographic's 2005 documentary "Inside 9/11, Pt.2 - Zero Hour" and in BBC's 2007 "Conspiracy Files" at 11:00 (see these mainstream 9/11 documentaries here at 911conspiracy.tv).

The angle was previously called "Fanta Devs" for the graffiti seen on the wall across the street from the camera. This explains the title of YougeneDebs's investigation of the camera location, which questions Alonso's story as broadcast by MSNBC. Was Alonso really the camera operator? (Coordinates according to Achimspok: 40deg 43min 17.69sec N, 73deg 59min 35.38sec W, 30m elevation)

Download in the highest quality... a huffyuv encoded version (as seen above), courtesy femr2, taken from "America 911" by CameraPlanet.com, 2001.

Long story short, see Christian Bornag's article, Tracking 9/11: "The Brooklyn Bridge Footage" and its use on the 2003 PsyOps for War. By comparing the credits in each of the documentaries that have featured the footage, Bornag has concluded that ITN/Reuters was the source. Contrary to Bornag's study, aparchive.com gives these details: Story No. X01885; Title: September 11th Anniversary Clipreel: Part 8. Source: Tiger Aspect.

For a while the shot was attributed to terrorists due to a mistake (or deception) by the mainstream media and/or FBI. Just as the Iraq war was beginning, the video appeared on an "al-Qaida-linked site" as "may be never-before-broadcast video." Never mind that it had been seen in four documentaries prior to 2003! The fact that this piece of video is mistakenly identified by Associated Press (aparchive.com), coupled with the fact that the FBI in 2008 released the video on a DVD in response to a FOIA request, suggests deception. Watch the Penttbom version now.

The point of perspective, as calculated by Achimspok is -73.994125, 40.704294.

Originally found on Devin's website bodyatomic.com— see archived videos page, where his 8 minute "What I Saw From My Window" is NOT available. Devin's video is also on the 3rd 9/11 airplane video on the tinacart YouTube channel. His location: 1 Penn Plaza, close to CNN.

Listen to Jeff Hill's phone call to Devin.

As seen in the Michael Moore film "Bowling for Columbine" (2002). That is according to others, because I haven't seen the film personally. The footage is also in the Dr. Ebbetts DVD collection "As It Happened," which draws largely on television broadcasts from 9/11. It is possible this footage aired on TV.

Recently (June 2009) an EXTENDED version surfaced - with audio. (download original .mov file) The camera operator testifies to seeing the plane, pointing at the flight path. The shot comes from bestshotfootage.com (emailed to me [Matt] by Dan Klein, Best Shot, Inc.). The muted Columbine clip also appears in the same video file with a previously uncirculated angle of "UA 175" - SY01, again courtesy of bestshotfootage.com.

Location: "Filmed from the Jehovah's Witnesses Dormitory, 84-92 Sands St, Brooklyn; 380 feet tall, 30 floors above ground elevated to 61 feet; at about: 40d 41m 58.49s N, 73d 59m 13.99s W" (YougeneDebs)

UPDATE, May 14, 2010: New version found at the F.I.L.M. Archives stock footage website. Without the As found on earthstation1.com (link dead). Also at 11-septembre.com/web/terrorize.dk... It's a record-distant, foggy angle similar to the Fred Hadley shot detailed below. Likely taken from a helicopter, certainly from an aircraft. Camera position details: "near Garden City on Long Island, some 18-plus miles east of the WTC. Google Earth shows the latitude as 40deg 43min 33.57sec N; and the longitude as 73deg 39min 57.86sec W. In other words, near Stewart Ave and Sackville Rd. The ground elevation is 87 feet above sea level (Google Earth). The altitude seems to be a bit lower than the tops of the WTC." Thanks again, YougeneDebs.

Brian Gately appeared in 7 Days in September, by Steven Rosenbaum and CameraPlanet Archive— but his plane footage didn't. Likewise, Gary Pollard's plane footage wasn't included. Jennifer Spell's shot provided a much better view. See Gately's 2nd hit video in the CameraPlanet Archive. Plus, listen to Jeff Hill's phone call from Dec. 2, 2008. Regarding camera location: "6th floor window at the NW corner of the building at 910 Park Place, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY; ground elevation is 92 feet; 40 deg 40 min 23.40 sec N, 73 deg 56 min 52.21 sec W" (Thanks, YougeneDebs)

September 2008 release. Update: Fred has posted his video on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, along with Jen S. (TV amateur, above). On YouTube Fred Hadley is Queensdude. His video appeared there on September 10, 2008. Quoting more info: "Possibly the most distant (16 mi.) video footage of the second jet hitting the South Tower and the collapse of the North Tower." Quoting comments: "I was shooting from the 25th floor of North Shore Towers on the border of Queens and Nassau Counties facing southwest...." Another: "I was talking to a friend on the phone watching the live TV coverage when the second jet hit. The tripod-mounted camera was unattended in another room."

UPDATE: Another version of this, not broken into 3 clips and rejoined, aired in the NBC News production "America Remembers: 9/11 Air Traffic Controllers." Aired 9/11/2002 (and 9/9/2006 with additional material not included in the version available at the mainstream documentaries page). The clip plays as if it were shot from the Newark Air Traffic Control tower, or nearby... at vrt 28:25 and 28:50.

"The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction" - aired Aug. 20, 2007 - showed this video in 3 clips spread throughout the documentary/hit piece. See each of the clips above.

A location has not been pinned for this perspective, yet.

First aired September 2003, in time for the 2 year anniversary of the attacks. Hlava sued cable news station New York 1 for airing the videotape without his approval. The lawsuit saught unspecified damages against the cable news station, part of AOL Time Warner, and Michael Cohen, Hlava's boss, who the station said gave it a copy of the tape for free. In the lawsuit, Hlava said he licensed the video to ABC News to be broadcast for the first time on ABC's "Good Morning America" on the two-year anniversary of the attacks. Hlava managed to catch both planes on his video, making his the 2nd video of the 1st attack (the other being Jules Naudet - link to his brother's 2nd hit shot)

Meet Pavel Hlava, thanks to 911hoax.com. Also see this informative slideshow at nytimes.com that tells the story. More: theage.com.au Sept. 7, 2003 article ::: TOP.

Posted online in two versions - one closeup slow-mo and one full length - here: http://manos.com/ManOS/Movies/Movies.html (or the archived version of his site). Photographer Manos E. Megagiannis has this to say on his blogspot:

Over the years there is a lot of talk about the WTC attacks and the videos about them. Many make references to my videos. The latest one is:

An Extremely Good Fake?

Here is the story behind my videos: The distance is about 6 miles, (according to Google Earth), recorded using a Sony PC1. After I got a call from a friend of mine about the first plane, I started filming from inside my apartment. To get a bit better view I went to the roof of the building, and the moment I pointed the camera to the WTC and started recording, without even realizing it I captured the second plane hitting the tower. Actually if you see the original tape you will notice that I move the camera so I can confirm with my own eyes the explosion that I saw through the viewfinder. The rest is just very basic digital zoom (very amateurish I admit). The woman's voice, was some tenant in the same building.

The videos have NOT being edited to make the plane disappear or anything like that (as some claim). One of these days, if I find some free time I may go back to the master and re-master the video.

Download full-length original .wmv file here: http://positiontoknow.com/S-11//vid/wtc_bb.wmv; and get the slow motion here: http://positiontoknow.com/S-11//vid/plane_bb.wmv. See more by Webfairy, who named the video.

License the footage from Getty Images, where a different name is credited as the filmmaker... a Mark Rudolph. The Scott Myers video is a rare example of amateur footage online, being hosted by the videographer. Notables: NIST used his video to study the South Tower damage (see hi res photo) The '08 GOP National Convention propaganda video featured his plane footage (see 0:36). The footage was posted on YouTube in 2006 as "Never before seen Video of WTC 9/11 attack" despite the many airings before then— "In Memoriam" by HBO (2002, explosion only); "Anatomy of September 11th" by A&E (2002, missing from my collection); "New York: Center of the World" by PBS (2003).... See Jeremy Morrison's web page to hear his explanation for his YouTube video title. .. A more recent airing in HQ is available for download, from "9/11 Hotel" (UK Ch. 4, 9/10/2008)... also from Xeno - see download link in video description.

Hear the Jeff Hill - Scott Myers phone call now. Check out Scott's awesome PDF resume... or his career timeline. Should we be suspicious of his video editing interest? Regarding the camera position: 12 John Street, according to the NY Times.

The Naudet story requires much attention. "9/11" - and the 2nd hit footage included - was 1st broadcast March 10, 2002, on the eve of the 6 month anniversary.. on CBS. Others have worked long hours on exposing the "9/11" snuff film for what it was and is. Propaganda. Please see Leslie Raphael's website (but disregard the 'TV Fakery' claims) and Ray Ubinger's website for an introduction to the staged 1st hit shot.

This of course means the 2nd hit shot was planned in advance. Still, Gedeon screwed up when the explosion was caught closeup on film. So, he and brother Jules... and actor/firefighter/filmmaker James Hanlon, et. al., EDITED OUT several frames from the 2nd hit sequence. Interestingly, the missing frames are synched with the blackout of WNYW, as well as with the timely angle changes of CBS, NBC, and WABC. Had it not been edited, Gedeon's angle would have given us the best view of the debris ejected from WTC 2... an engine, a landing gear assembly, and assorted scraps. By the way, is that a 767 or 747 engine?

November 2008 marks the most recent airplane video releases (3 total). See penttbom.com for the full story on the Freedom of Information Act request initiated by Scott Bingham (website owner). Scott received 10 DVDs from the FBI, the first installment (2nd delivery Feb. 1). See also "Brooklyn Bridge" and "Spiegel TV," which had both previously appeared in September 11 documentaries. (get original mov file - 197.5MB)

"This is a clip from FBI FOIA releaseed DVD labeled: NE513 under the title:
'Videos submitted to FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, under cover of communication dated 2/19/2002, all depicting WTC footage'"   - bronco2121 aka Scott Bingham

UPDATE: jmdewey60 has pinpointed the point of perspective in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Delivered by FBI November 3, 2008 among a pack of 10 DVDs with Pentagon and WTC footage. See penttbom.com for the full story on the FOIA request initiated by Scott Bingham (website owner).  TOP

Named for something the camera operator says. Footage delivered by FBI November 3, 2008 among a pack of 10 DVDs with Pentagon and WTC footage. See penttbom.com for the full story on the FOIA request initiated by Scott Bingham (website owner). Download Scott's gigantic 1.6GB video file here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6BKFTEI6 (not hyperlinked or recommended).  TOP

Gary Pollard's footage - not the 2nd hit - was featured in the CameraPlanet film "7 Days in September" (2002). By comparing some of the "7 Days" footage with the dark blue YouTube video, one discovers the identity of the videographer. See clips above. See also Jennifer Spell and Brian Gately— also featured by CameraPlanet. The Pollard shot is not usually counted as a video of the plane, since the dark blue color drowns the shadowy plane image. Thanks to Xenomorph911WTC for brightening the video and featuring it in his 43-angle compilation. See a clip of the Pollard explosion in BBC's The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 at about 11:06.

First discovered by Spooked Feb. 2007 on Yahoo! Video in slow motion, and with abundant text. Note: the version linked is not the first upload, which was reportedly from "rocerny" and apparently without the "SAMPLE" text (see 2nd photo at left). But that version is gone. Quoting Rocerny's new identity "Roberto C" on Yahoo! (linked above):

"My video. I was right on the other side of the Hudson. After doing some math, I know I visited those buildings literarily about five thousand times over several years. The last time was the night before; I went to a store called Lechter's. The sonic of the aircraft getting near at a cruising speed and at a very low altitude is real. It was way too loud to be normal. The aircraft was coming from my right hand side, where the only 'obstructions' were the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We were actually much closer to the towers than it seems in the video. I tried to hide the voices since it's very difficult for me to listen to them again. The ferry approaching from the Hudson is the 40M Tatobam, it used to dock every day right in front of my apartment until 4pm, but that was the last day I saw it."

Unlike many "UA 175" videos, you can hear the plane (in slow motion). (See also Courchesne, Hezarkhani, Hlava, Myers, Naudet, Pollard, Shizzham, and Strid.) Although questions have been raised by Killtown about the trajectory, the angle is featured in Achimspok's study "UA175 - the last 12 seconds," which seems to resolve the issue. The point of perspective, as calculated by Achimspok is -74.039786, 40.710953 --  TOP

Update May 14, 2010: Prishep found the videographer's name at vimeo.com, where the full length videos are... watermarked. By the looks of his professional blog, Rosario can hardly be called an amateur. It's strange that CameraPlanet Archive was credited for his work in the TV documentary that has until now provided the name for this angle of the 2nd hit.

Spiegel TV (Germany) was playing the BBC doc. (which aired on PBS NOVA in the U.S.) titled "Why the Towers Fell" (2002). Watch the American version on YouTube. The German version was available for download at 11-septembre.com/web/terrorize.dk..., pioneer collector of the plane crash videos. More recently in 2006, BBC-PBS-NOVA used a cropped enlargement of Rosario's images in "Building on Ground Zero" with no credit to the camera operator or to CameraPlanet.

In addition to the Spiegel TV/NOVA versions - the closeup/crop and the regular view - there is one in the CameraPlanet Archive with audio (uploaded twice). Another longer version with audio was released Feb. 1st by Scott Bingham of penttbom.com, titled "K3074 FOIA release. Second plane impacting the WTC." As with so many other videos, the FBI collected.

Regarding camera location: "Park Tower (the building's name), One Plaza Street, Brooklyn, NY - 53.34 meters tall, 16 floors, 120-foot ground elevation, 40 deg 40 min 31.00 sec N, 73 deg 58 min 17.67 sec W" (Thanks YougeneDebs)

Released horizontally 10/14/07 on YouTube. We know this thanks to Killtown's efforts in collecting information on the 2nd hit airplane videos. On Killtown's page there, the crowd's "unreaction" is pointed out as possible evidence of fakery. Also, Killtown saved the story from the now deleted YouTube info. "Joined: July 22, 2006 - Age: 37 - Country: Japan - youtube.com/user/shizzzham:

"A new hire from our company captured this while in NY for training. He was on the way to the office and saw one tower on fire and then started filming. In full view you can see the second plane smashing into the second tower. Amazing footage. I wish I remembered the man's name to give him the credit." - Shizzzham

Strid made his video private on YouTube. Maybe it was the accusations of fakery. I had a link here to odd claims from Simon Shack at 911movement.org forums, but the board was shut down due to inappropriate behavior. Dialogue from this video is more interesting than the degraded picture.

Male 1: "Wha, what just hit it?"
Male 2: "An airplane."
Male 1: "Another one?"
Male 2: "Did the, wait, was the first one an airplane?"
Male 1: "No, the first, no.  What was that?  Just now?"
Male 2: "That was a... as far as I could tell, that was a United -- it looked it, I swear, a United airplane that crashed into the side of it."
Male 1: "The one just came in now?"
Male 2: "Yes!"

The extended version is longer than 18 minutes... posted Sept. 2007.

Angle similar to the Anthony Cotsifas photo; a November 2008 discovery by Xenomorph911WTC. The unknown amateur shot is available for licensing at bestshotfootage.com. Shoot them an email to get a sample in an email attachment. (I don't know which clip, but I did get an email personally.)  TOP

Source file download: 911.wtc.2.hit.north.lq.avi found here: 11-septembre.com/web/terrorize.dk/911/wtc2hit11... See the bottom of the page where it reads, "Low quality clip."

This shot seems to have originated as a YouTube upload by "tinacart." See also Tinacart 1. An extended version is still available for download in .wmv format in the web archive of media.us.ametrika.com/video, a directory listing of videos where only Tinacart 2 ("amazing home video.wmv") plays. It's interesting that the long-distance witness (male) suggests the Boeing 767 was a "rocket... fast." Indeed, the alleged plane was flying fast. Estimates range widely from 503 MPH (MIT) to 590 MPH (FEMA, p. 2-31).

Regarding camera location: "Filmed from the roof of (aprox.) 24 Devoe St, Williamsburg, about 3.25 miles east of the WTC. Ground elevation 19 feet. 40 deg 42 min 46.84 sec N, 73 deg 57 min 01.88 sec W. The Williamsburg Bridge is prominent in the foreground." (Thanks, YougeneDebs)

Newest addition as of May 27, 2010. Amateur videographer Jim has two YouTube channels: TuesdayMorningInSept and Supersynapsis. The first is the name of his highly anticipated, upcoming full length release (about 2 hours) of lightly edited footage. Details are in the works.

Early versions of the footage have appeared as video recording of either one or two TVs playing his original video. (This was not televised, FYI.) Jim plans to have his original tape digitized professionally sometime soon.

Regarding camera location: TBD