On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers seized four commercial airliners in a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States. At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the South Tower between floors 77 and 85.
Stanley Praimnath, a 45-year-old loan officer for Fuji Bank, sat at his desk on the 81st floor of the South Tower—directly in the impact zone. What happened over the next thirty minutes became one of the most improbable survival stories in American history... read the rest here.
