South Tower Impact Floors

Alan mann 35 an executive vice president at aon corp an insurance company squeezed into an express elevator packed with 25 people evacuating the south tower.

South tower impact floors. Along the impact zone of the south tower floors 78 to 84 however the stairs had to divert around heavy elevator machinery. North tower s northeast perimeter wall from floors 93 through 98 south tower s southwest perimeter wall from floors 78 through 82. As the north tower had been struck directly midway into the structure the three stairways in the tower core were all damaged or blocked by debris preventing escape to lower floors. The two plane impacts first the north tower then the south tower were quite different in one respect.

The north tower impact occurred without warning was not meant to be recorded on video although it was in the fireman s video whereas the south tower impact was designed as a media spectacle it was timed to occur approximately fifteen minutes after the first impact when many video cameras. It is heart wrenching to hear the audio. Doi was calling from the 83rd floor of 2 world trade center the south tower. The south tower stood for 56 minutes after the aircraft impact.

South tower 78th floor. So instead of running close to the building core two of the stairways. The south tower s wall was damaged less than the north tower s since the columns at its impact zone were made of thicker steel. On the 107th floor of this building was a popular tourist attraction called top.

The room was filled with smoke and the temperature was very very hot. Of the 2 977 victims killed in the attacks 900 were in the south tower and on the ground. Jonathan weinberg baseline financial services south tower 77th floor on deciding which stairwell to choose. The impact rocked the tower causing it to sway several feet.

At the national september 11 memorial museum the southern pool marks the spot where the south tower stood. He was the last person in. In the south tower the impact was slightly off center to the central section of the tower and stairway a in the northwest portion of the central core was only. On the floors immediately below the impact floors they also encountered fire.