102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (44 page)

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Authors: Jim Dwyer,Kevin Flynn

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Tabeek, George
Takahashi, Keiji
Tembe, Yeshavant
Templeton Strong
third plane scare
Thomas, Sergeant
Thompson, Brian
Thompson, Eric
Thompson, Liz
Thompson, Lloyd
Thorpe, Alexis
Thorpe, Linda Perry
Thorpe, Rick
Tierney, Richard
Titanic
(ship)
Tobin, Austin J.
Tompsett, Dorry
Tompsett, Stephen
Torres, Doris
Torres, Louis A.
Tozzoli, Guy
Traina, Jean
Trapp, Greg
Trevor, Allison
Trevor, Greg
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911
Troxell, Patty
Turi, Deputy Assistant Chief Al
UBS Warburg
United Airlines Flight
United Airlines Flight
United States Congress
United States Marine Corps
Urban, Diane
Vadas, Brad
Vargas, Sgt. Robert
Varriano, Frank
Velamuri, Sankara
Vera, Dave
Villegas, Edgardo
Von Essen, Fire Commissioner Thomas
Wagner, Mayor Robert F.
Walsh, Det. Patrick
Walsh, Lt. William
Warchola, Lt. Mike
Wein, Judy
Weiss, David
Wender, Sgt. Andrew
Wertz, Gerry
We Were Soldiers Once … and Young
(book and film)
Wharton, Geoffrey
Whitaker, Capt. Anthony
Wilson, John
Windows on the World
attempt to evacuate
attempt to reach roof from
calls for help from
February 1993 bombing and
natural gas not allowed in
people wait for help
Risk Waters conference and
Wild Blue dining area
Winkler, Ken, Det.
World Trade Center.
See also specific buildings and businesses, especially
north tower
and
south tower
acres covered by
airplane impact, pinstripe columns and
airplane strike envisioned and debated
architect
building code, design, and safety problems
challenges facing people in
collapse of, believed impossible
collapse of, reasons for
collapse threat noticed
columns, external pinstripe vs. central core
communications failures and
coordinated drills run by OEM
diagram of
elevators, freight
elevator safety problems
emergency “bunker” in
emergency drills
emergency lighting and stripes
emergency personnel rush to, after first plane hits
emergency systems failure and
evacuation of both towers officially ordered
evacuation problems in
exits, rentable space vs.
February 1993 bombing of
fire alarms, called in by Pfeifer
fireballs in elevators of
fire containment belief and
fireproofing problems in
fire wardens
floors and trusses of
garage closed to public
government and financial services in
Kahane assassination and plot on
Kelly helps build
leased to Silverstein
mezzanine escalator and plaza problems and
names and titles of people at
number of people in and spaciousness of
number of people killed in
radio problems in
roof access blocked in
roof rescues not planned for
safety improved in, after 1993
sky lobbies(
see also
specific buildings)
stairway safety and evacuation problems in
wind and
window design in
window washing device for
Wortley, Martin
WPIX-TV
Wright, Richard
Yagos, Karen
Yamasaki, Minoru
York, Kevin
Young, Chris
Young, Ling
Yuen, Elkin
Zarillo, Rich
Zelmanowitz, Abe
Zelmanowitz, Jack
Zoch, Peggy
JIM DWYER and KEVIN FLYNN, native New Yorkers, veteran newspaper reporters and winners of many awards together and separately, now write in
The New York Times.
Dwyer is coauthor of
Two Seconds under the World,
an account of the 1993 effort to knock down the trade center, and of
Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted
. He is also the author of
Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway.
Flynn, a special projects editor at the
Times,
was the newspaper’s police bureau chief on September 11. He previously worked as a reporter for the New York
Daily News, New York Newsday,
and the
Stamford Advocate
.
Just minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 hit the north tower, Christopher Hanley
(left)
of Radianz and Bill Kelly of Bloomberg L.P. chat at a breakfast conference at Windows on the World on the 106th floor. Another Bloomberg salesman, Peter Alderman, stands near the window. The photographer left the building before the plane struck. (BLOOMBERG L.P.)
On the 89th floor of the north tower, Akane Ito, Raffaele Cava, Tirsa Moya, Walter Pilipiak, Dianne DeFontes, Harold Martin, and approximately twenty others were trapped when Flight 11 struck. (ANDREA MOHIN/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
Christine Olender
(left)
, one of the managers at Windows on the World, spoke to her mother in the morning before Flight 11 hit the north tower. After the plane’s impact, she and her fellow manager Doris Eng
(right)
had several conversations with the Port Authority command desks, trying to find out what had happened and what she and the others in the restaurant should do. (COURTESY OF THE OLENDER AND ENG FAMILIES)
Stephen Miller, a computer systems administrator for Mizuho Capital on the 80th floor of the south tower, followed his firm’s evacuation procedures and headed down the stairs immediately after the plane hit the north tower. (RICHARD PERRY/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
Ed Beyea; his aide, Irma Fuller; and his friend, Abe Zelmanowitz; pose in the office of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on the 27th floor of the north tower, where they worked together each day. (BETH TIPPERMAN)
Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer, who was the first fire commander to respond after Flight 11 struck the north tower, helps direct rescue efforts from the lobby of that building. (AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS/GOLDFISH PICTURES)
Frank De Martini, the Port Authority construction manager, worked on the 88th floor of the north tower. He loved the World Trade Center and all its gadgetry ever since he started work as a consultant following the 1993 bombing. After a 1994 project to overhaul the window-washing and maintance rigs, he took an inspection ride along the side of the building, boarding at the roof, 1,350 feet above the street. On September 11, De Martini helped rescue people on his floor and then led a group that pried open doors on twelve floors along the boundary of the crash zone, rescuing dozens of others. (COURTESY OF ENRICO TITTARELLI)
Pablo Ortiz was one of the men in Frank De Martini’s group who helped push back the boundary between surviving and perishing in the upper floors of the north tower. (COURTESY OF EDNA KANG ORTIZ)
Stanley Praimnath, an assistant vice president for Fuji Bank, made his way down to the lobby of the south tower less than ten minutes after the first plane’s impact, but he was told to return to his office. He watched from a window on the 81st floor as United Airlines Flight 175 streaked across the harbor toward his building. (TYRONE JAIMANGAL)
A view of the Euro Brokers trading floor on the east side of the 84th floor of the south tower, showing the type of open floors used by many financial firms in the towers. The four people in the foreground were not on the 84th floor when Flight 175 hit. However, the fifth person at the left, Thomas Sparacio, in the white shirt and turned away from the camera, was among a group of about fifty still in or near the trading area at the moment of impact. (JANICE BROOK/EURO BROKERS INC.)
After Flight 175 hit the south tower, only eighteen people were able to get past the impact zone via the single stairway that remained open. Among them were Donovan Cowan, Brian Clark, Richard Fern, and Ling Young, seated. (FRED R. CONRAD/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)

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