Flight 175- 2nd World Trade Center Attack
Photographs of the Second Plane, 9:02 A.M. |
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N612UA, the actual Flight 175 - These photos were not taken on 9/11. (source) |
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Sean Adair professional photographer & editor
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Check out Sean's web version of his 9/11 photo set: http://www.adairproductions.com/photo/WorldTradeCenter/wtc.htm. UPDATE Sept. 2011: For best quality, see the 10th anniversary photo gallery at The Atlantic. Or see the 6 photo set in one image (source). UPDATE Jan. 2011: High resolution cropped version found by researcher Prishep, however the image is still blue tinted like in Sean's web version. See also digitaljournalist.org here or september11news.com here for more versions.
"Sean started shooting with an SLR and multiple lenses at 14 years old, while travelling through 23 countries with his parents. Currently a freelancer and director of a small production company, who shoots and edits pro film and video, he also works extensively with digital manipulation in still and motion graphics; services all available from www.adairproductions.com. His photographs have been published in newspapers, books, and magazines around the world. With a background in travel stock photography and as an event photographer, his technical sophistication and eye for innovation have led to a body of truly unique photographic artwork." |
Jane Barrer amateur photographer
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Ms. Barrer's photo of "Flight 175" was previously known as hereisnewyork.org #2356, the source for the above picture. UPDATE Jan. 2011: New larger version available. Click photo. The International Center for 9/11 Studies 2010 NIST FOIA has produced more than 4TB worth of data, which is being released over time in more than 30 chunks of various sizes. The hereisnewyork.org photo collection - featuring many larger versions - makes up 911datasets.org release 31. |
Doug Blanchard photographer
Click image to see the enlarged original. The plane is camouflaged by dirt on the scan of the print, but confirmed by a discerning eye. (Thanks to Prishep, who made the enhanced version above and sent it to me.) New to this list September 2011, self-published for the first time on the net in 2008. Source: photographer Doug's blog. Notice the explosion photo. |
Moshe Bursuker photographer (AP photo)
Click the image above to enlarge, or see this zoomed cropped version. Point of perspective: "Near Conselyea at Leonard St in Brooklyn. The two churches are, on the left: the RC at 259 N 5th St; and on the right: 70 Havemeyer St. 40d 42m 53.12s N, 73d 56m 53.24s W. Ground elevation is 29ft; 2.5 story building (sunken 1st floor)." (Thanks, YougeneDebs) - (map) |
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Kathy Cacicedo director/producer/still photographer/editor/graphic designer
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See also Kathy's explosion photo as found on her website kcphotographer.com. Discuss and research in Jeff Hill's forum. Plus, listen to an interview with the photographer. Regarding the point of perspective: "Kathy moved around throughout the day, but her plane pic was from a condo on Chapel Ave in Jersey City, NJ. 40d 41m 10.64 N, 74d 04m 17.12s W. Ground elevation is 3ft." (YougeneDebs) "The photo of the second plane approaching the World Trade Center on September 11 was shot on 400 ASA negative FILM. The FILM was developed on September 11 at the STAR LEDGER- NJ's largest newspaper. It can be seen in the Life Magazine book "One Nation [America Remembers September 11, 2001]" and Time Life's "Year in Pictures" The photos have been published in magazines and newspapers around the world. Der Spiegel, Max, Geo Germany. The Guardian, London Times, England. Paris Match, France. Profil, Austria. Herald Sun, Australia. Sette, Italy. NRC Handelsblad, Holland. US News and World Report, The Star Ledger, Encyclopedia Brittanica. USA." - kcphotographer.com |

Robert Clark professional photographer
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See the explosion shot now. The photos were shot from the roof of 475 Kent Ave., according to Clark in a phone interview by Jeff Hill. (EDIT: previously this page said "65 S 11th St, Williamsburg, according to researcher YougeneDebs." Coincidentally, UA175 videographer Chris Hopewell (aka Tinacart) has been pinpointed at the same block (building?). (40d 42m 27.90s N, 73d 58m 00.88s W. Ground elevation is 29ft; 6 story building) Again coincidentally, one of three people to capture the first plane "on film" - Wolfgang Staehle - was located also at 475 Kent Ave. "Robert Clark is a freelance photographer based in New York City and works with the world's leading magazines and major publishing houses, as well as on cutting edge advertising campaigns. |
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Cary Conover photographer This image shows United Airlines Flight 175 off in the distance (at left) as it approaches the World Trade Center. The photographer was unaware of the plane as it approached. Soon the plane became hidden from view, only to be seen again in the form of a fireball erupting out of the south tower. Photo by Cary Conover (Photographer's Note: To preserve the rawness of the discovery, the scratches and dust on the film have been intentionally left in place) Sept. 9, 2011 |
Anthony Cotsifas professional photographer
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Luke Cremin amateur photographer
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"This image just prior to the plane impact with the South tower still, a year later, puts a shiver down my spine. Image taken from Atlantic Basin due South of the site of the WTC." |
The plane pic - according to researcher YougeneDebs - was shot "at the end of Richards St at the docks, I think. 40d 40m 23.06s N, 74d 00m 56.12s W." |

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Robert A. Cumins Professional photographer
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UPDATE 2012: The photographer was interviewed by Tom Franklin (photo "Raising the Flag at Ground Zero") for a 10th anniversary program, "Witness to History: The Photographers of 9/11."
UPDATE July 2011: Cumin's set of photos -- including another shot of the plane -- have been discovered at corbisimages.com. Thanks, Prishep for the find. "It was not until I was at the (photo processing) lab, about to scan the film to CD did I realize the first two images were of the plane approaching and entering the south tower and then the fireball....that I had followed that plane right into the building! Ironically, the photograph was made with a Nikon 500 mm lens bought 8 years ago to the day, September 11, 1993....I would use it on September 13, 1993 to photograph the handshake between Rabin, Arafat and Clinton on the south lawn of the White House. The picture of the hijacked airliner a second away from hell on September 11, 2001 was made from the west of New York City, 18 miles away, while the sun was still in the Eastern sky, thus the silhouette and holocaust view." For more of the Cumins story, see also Running Toward Danger, a rare 2002 book by the Newseum... seen in part on Google Books. Regarding the point of perspective: "From the south condos on Claridge Drive, off Pompton Ave; between Verona and Montclair; just under 14 miles from the WTC (not 18 miles as claimed by Cumins). 40d 49m 56.67s N, 74d 13m 23.39s W. Ground elevation is 632ft; he says he was 9 stories up." (Thanks, YougeneDebs) |
Dastata amateur photographer
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NEW addition to this list Dec. 2011. Uploaded to smugmug.com by user Dastata, who wrote for a caption: "I had just arrived at the pier and was told that an airoplane [sic] had hit the North Tower. I heard a loud "tearing" noise. Looking thru the viewfinder and Flt. 175 came into focus, I took the picture." Under the explosion photo Dastata wrote: "I was suprized whenthe [sic] plane suddenly turned towards the East River (I was expecting it to go up the Hudson to inspect the incident) I found it in focus and snapped this as it hit the South tower." |

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Laura Diez amateur photographer
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Copyright Laura Diez/eStock. Uploaded to webshots.com on September 20, 2001 by user andalusian95 into the Webshots "news" channel in her album titled "on my way to work images by Laura D...." Photo rediscovered Jan. 23, 2010 by researcher/archivist Prishep. Thanks! If anyone has better quality - or additional - photos, please contact me, matt -at- 911conspiracy.tv. |
Robert J. Fisch amateur photographer
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"My name is Robert. I was having breakfast at Joe Junior's in the West Village when a crowd starting to form outside. In short order, we learned the World Trade had suffered some catastrophe. After taking a look at the black gash in the facade of the building, I abandoned breakfast and ran to my apartment across the street and grabbed my camera. It was loaded and ready (I'd just gotton back from Florida several days before). I snapped a few pictures and saw the second plane in my viewfinder. I snapped it instinctively. I had no idea it was going to hit the south tower." |
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Kelly Guenther Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist
Kelly snapped two quick shots of the plane, like Robert Clark. UPDATE March 2011: A high resolution version of her second shot was included in the new 9/11 Memorial interactive timeline. See other closeups of her second photo, or a video with her story from the New York Times, the original publisher. Her domain name www.kellyguenther.com forwards to nycweddingphotographer.com, which tells us "she is a photojournalist who shoots weddings." |

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hereisnewyork.org 1230 unknown
UPDATE Jan. 2011: New larger version available. Click photo. The International Center for 9/11 Studies 2010 NIST FOIA has produced more than 4TB worth of data, which is being released over time in more than 30 chunks of various sizes. The hereisnewyork.org photo collection - featuring many larger versions - makes up 911datasets.org release 31. |

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hereisnewyork.org 5185 unknown
UPDATE Jan. 2011: New larger version available. Click photo. The International Center for 9/11 Studies 2010 NIST FOIA has produced more than 4TB worth of data, which is being released over time in more than 30 chunks of various sizes. The hereisnewyork.org photo collection - featuring many larger versions - makes up 911datasets.org release 31. |

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hereisnewyork.org 7500 unknown
UPDATE Jan. 2011: New larger version available. Click photo. The International Center for 9/11 Studies 2010 NIST FOIA has produced more than 4TB worth of data, which is being released over time in more than 30 chunks of various sizes. The hereisnewyork.org photo collection - featuring many larger versions - makes up 911datasets.org release 31. |
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Rob Howard Freelance photographer
"At Rector Street and Broadway, a photographer leaned out his window with a medium-format camera and caught the moment before the second plane's impact. Photograph by Rob Howard." NOTE that a 2008 documentary "The 9/11 Hotel" attributed the photo to Christine Sweeting's daughter... in a[nother] blatant error by UK Channel 4. |

Dan Joyce Corbis
UPDATE: Hi res (photo of original photo) found on reddit.com. New addition to this webpage January 2010 thanks to researcher Prishep, who found the rare plane photo here. After some searching, two other Joyce photos have been located. Sources for the three seen above: another search at Corbis. Click the 3rd photo to see a larger version from a Picasa web album that happens to contain another NEW find (also from Corbis) by Prishep! See below, Masatomo Kuriya. |

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Tammy Klein Gamma UPDATE: Photographer named after finding the image in One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 by Life Magazine, 2001, p. 24... where the white paper (I guess) floating above the plane is airbrushed out and the image cropped to cut out the smoke, so the book could simulate a shot of the first plane hit (Frames from the Naudet 1st hit shot are on the opposite page). |

William Kratzke AP Wide World Photos
UPDATE: Thanks Prishep for finding a high resolution version on framework.latimes.com. Point of perspective: "From the roof at Clinton St and Aitken Pl; SW corner, about: 40d 41m 31.32s N, 73d 59m 37.38s W. Ground elevation is 66 feet." (Thanks, YougeneDebs) |

Masatomo Kuriya Corbis
Added here January 2010 thanks to researcher Prishep, who discovered it here at Corbis. The source for the above version without the watermark comes from a Picasa web album (now a dead link). See Masatomo Kuriya's full 9/11 collection, although in low quality. In 2011 the photo was featured on the cover of composer Steve Reich's "WTC 9/11" album. |
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Seth McAllister AFP/Getty Images
UPDATE: A larger (but cropped) version is available here. Point of perspective: "Could be from 58th St at 9th Ave; about 40d 46m 08.32 N, 73d 59m 07.61s W. Ground elevation is 82 feet." (YougeneDebs) |

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Fabien Moreau unknown photographer
New to this list March 22, 2010, thanks to Muzza (in his/her first post at pumpitout forum). About the photographer: it seems Moreau - a virtual unknown - sold his photo(s) to the newspaper USA Today in a one time deal (see pdf or full-size jpg image). |

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William D. Nuñez amateur photographer
Bond analyst Will Nuñez had gone to his corner newsstand and bought a $14.99 disposable Kodak, hoping to record the smoking tower out his office window "for history's sake," he says. "I remembered an incident back in the thirties when a plane had hit the Empire State Building, and I was always impressed by photos in encyclopedias." Instead, from his perch on the thirty-second floor of One State Street Plaza, he captured the plane's breathtaking blur out his office window, quite unintentionally. In his shot, a colleague, standing before a vast picture window, looks on in silhouette, next to an innocuous baseball trophy, its tiny batter poised on a two-handled loving cup. The plane had streaked by with such speed, Nuñez had not even realized he had caught it on film until he finally got around to developing the roll a week or two later. See a list of photographers on the source website hereisnewyork.org, which includes the name Nunez and his photo as number 6236. Point of perspective: 40d 42m 10.75s N, 74d 00m 47.38s W. (YougeneDebs, confirmed in quote above) |
Paul-M professional photographer
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Uploaded to Flickr on Mar 21, 2006: http://www.flickr.com/photos/p-fotos/.... Discovered Aug. 2009 by YouTuber quantumflux432. Quote from Paul's profile:
About Paul-M
Note that "www.p-fotos.com" doesn't return a website. The Internet archive finds nothing for that domain name. |

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Officer "L." Perez amateur photographer
"Contributor's location on 9/11: I was in school wondering what was going on and if my father was alive. NOTE: This photo has for some reason been mistakenly attributed to "Aaorn C. Traub" -- for example, at the 911myths.com UA Flight 175 Crash Evidence page. Regarding the point of perspective: "I think it's from along Grace Ct, NW of Hicks St in Brooklyn Heights. About: 40d 41m 39.02s N, 73d 59m 52.65s W. Ground elevation is about 50 feet." (YougeneDebs) |

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Russian Pilot amateur photographer
We can see this photographer fly across the screen in 2 of the 2nd hit videos! Watch WNYW FOX Chopper5 and FOX5 9:09 am ("Marta").... And here's a video explanation of the time difference in the flyby in those two videos, since Simon Shack thinks it's evidence of "fakery."
Read the pilot's story (told by somebody else) and see the photos (and pop-up ads) at englishrussia.com. Here's the story, saved for posterity:
Russian Pilot Making Photos 9/11 Flying Above NYC
Here is a shocking story of Russian pilot, now living in the USA who was on the air 9th September 2001 [sic] and have made photos right from the air when planes crashed the WTC.
He worked at that time as a programmer in one of the dot coms and had some free time which usualy he spent flying Cessna 172SP plane around NYC.
We have this photos today.
Just when he took off he spotted a smoke coming from WTC towers. He was very surprised and headed in that direction: [Photo 1.]
When he approached to George Washington Bridge he tuned to a local 1010 WINS news radio station. He says that at that time there was news that 'a small plane hit WTC.' Then he switched to hear what other pilots flying above Gudson are talking about, but they discussed same thing 'a small commuter that hit WTC.' [Photo 2.]
So little by little he was approaching the Manhattan. He met a few small planes like his Cessna, and pilots were saying something like 'Oh man there is something really bad happened!' [Photo 3.]
He got even more closer and noticed another BOEING 737. He says that the BOEING was flying the same way it usualy does when going to landing from La Guardia destination, probably a little bit lower than usual. [Photo 4.]
And then suddenly this BOEING 737 changes his course making a very sharp curve, targeting the South WTC tower.
He shot it at the moment it hit the building. [Photo 5.]
The author of the photos says he doesn't believe at all that this maneur could be done by some rookie who just graduated from 'Florida Flight School.' According to his opinion it was some very experienced military pilot making his last kamikaze mission. [Photo 6.]
After that he decided to find a place to land but all the places around NYC didn't accept him so he had to fly to NJ and land there.
He hid the camera so that nobody could know he was filming.
Original story on Russian [sic] by MAXHO
See the Loose Change Forums thread where Yuri is named as the photographer. See also Yuri's website (cached), from which come 3 additional photos (1., taken between 3 and 4 [the plane shot, above]; 2., taken between 4 and 5 BARELY missing the plane; 3., taken between 5 [the explosion shot] and 6). Quoting Yuri's site:
"As I'm flying closer, almost opposite the WTC, right next to the Harborside Center in Jersey City, I see this airliner coming down in a steep bank, my first thought was, WTF is this guy doing!??? Why is he diving so steep to take a look at the fire! And it's an airliner! (looked like a 737 to me at the time). I muttered something along the lines 'Jeez, this guy is gonna get so fired by his airline, it's not even funny!' The next moment.... it hits the building.... I felt like I was inside a cartoon or a movie, maybe that 'Independence Day' flick, at the moment I thought I was seeing things, like this can't be, this isn't real... But I had my camera in hand and snapped virtually a split second later after the impact, I was simply too awestruck when I saw the plane, so it didn't click in me to actually shoot the thing (but if I had a Stinger SAM with me, damn, I wish I did and I would)."
To investigate speeds and distances involved in Yuri's flight, see the study by YougeneDebs. Plus, here are Debs's coordinates for the flying Russian: "High above, near the Hoboken PATH Station 40d 44m 03.67s N, 74d 01m 21.75s W. Altitude of Yury's Cessna is about 750 feet."

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Kamal Sharma Freelance (NEW 2012)
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NEW FIND by Prishep of pumpitout forum. Only this small version so far has been published, from the New York Daily News online. (A Google images search for "Kamal Sharma 9/11" finds the source image seen above, seen smaller in the article). |

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Irving Silverstein Staten Island Advance
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NEW FIND July 2011. Thanks, MrKoenig. See the explosion photo here. The point of perspective, according to the source: 40.600273, -74.086728, on "top of the Staten Island Advance building in Grasmere." |
John Sullivan Unknown photographer
UPDATE: Name change from "ICIS News" to J. Sullivan, after finding the photo set (in various quality levels and sizes, in no particular order) in International Center for 9/11 Studies NIST FOIA release 29 in the folder here: 911datasets.org\International_Center_for_911_Studies_NIST_FOIA\Release_29\Release 29\42A0325 - G29D11\WTCI-412-STB SIPA. The photos came among 29.4GB of other photos and videos. Details in metadata from plane pic: "11 September 2001 - New York - Series of pictures shows the second plane attack on the World Trade Center September 11, 2001. PHOTO CREDIT: John Sullivan / SIPA PRESS." |
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Carmen Taylor amateur photographer
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UPDATE 2012: The Arkansas tourist was interviewed by Tom Franklin (photo "Raising the Flag at Ground Zero") for a 10th anniversary program, "Witness to History: The Photographers of 9/11." |

Unknown (NEW 2012) anonymous
Wow. Image found at dave-hogan.blogspot.com/2012... by OacousticS who contacted me on YouTube (Thanks!). See also his video comparing the angle with a shot from the NIST FOIA release 3 and release 17\42A0050\Unknownphotographer7fromwwwphatmax1net (Image metadata says photo 8 was shot by an Olympus camera at 9:20 am, yet photos 1 through 5 are missing from the folder. Anyway it's doubtfully the same camera considering the population of NYC. See for example Bill Black (release 23), Nikon camera also beside Trinity Church). There is no source info other than the following from Dave's blog:
Is this real? Apparently the only online version of the image is this scan of a digital printout. When I asked Dave about the source, he replied: "As I was told, it was emailed, printed, saved for about 7 years, while the original digital copy was lost, then scanned back in by someone who had printed a copy and mentioned it to me. I asked to see it and asked if they cared if I posted it. All that was cropped was the border of the print out." Thanks, Dave. To report source info, anybody write to matt(a)911conspiracy.tv |

USYeh anonymous
Original found at usyeh.com after searching the dead image link at forums.macresource.com ... a post titled "Amazing 9/11/01 Picture" on Nov. 6, 2009:
My friend took this shot on 9/11/01. Note that it was featured in the September 13 special edition of Newsweek magazine, as discovered when searching for the text on a scan of the photo from the pages... confirmed text match here. |
John C. Vanover amateur photographer
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NEW FIND September 2011 at atheistnexus.org, thanks to researcher Prishep at pumpitout forum. Photo posted online by a friend of the photographer. "By one of my old skating partners, John C. Vanover...he was working on the Jersey side of the river that day. You can see the second plane at the right end of the smoke plume. Exact point of perspective not yet determined, so it's not yet added to the map below. |
Joe Vazquez amateur photographer
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Recently found (2010) source details, thanks to researcher Prishep: "Photo taken by Joe Vazquez at the Gowanus Gas Turbine site. The first plane has crashed into the south tower. The second plane has targeted the other tower. A lone seagull is perched on a coal mound. Striking contrast!" Update January 4, 2010: See more photos from Joe. None are better quality, unfortunately. YougeneDebs placed the gravel pile "at the NW end of 25th St in Brooklyn (on the water)" and the camera looking over the Federal Bureau of Prisons building, near "where 2nd Ave would meet 28th St, if those streets went that far." - discussion |

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Joseph P. Whistler amateur photographer
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Found at the 9/11 Digital Archive by researcher Alibongo.
Description: Point of perspective: "Very near the SW corner of the Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Center St.; about: 40d 42m 45.73s N, 74d 00m 15.58s W. Ground elevation is 32 feet." (Thanks, YougeneDebs) |
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