Interesting photos from the air of the WTC before and during the attack, also photos of the actual planes used!! From the Airliners.net web site.

Warning BIG Photos files

First Overall view of NYC, showing the WTC before, from the air. Click Here to view the photo. Not that hard to find the WTC from the air.

Second Close up view of coming into WTC area Click Here to view the photo

Also photos of the actual airplanes which crashed into the WTC.

First United Airlines plane used on Flight 93 which hit the WTC Click Here to view the photo

Second American Airlines plane used to hit the Pentagon Click Here to view the photo

LAST - In flight photo of the WTC being hit by the 2nd plane. The following is the information from the pilot/photographer

"That morning I took of to practice some approaches, when I saw the smoke over the city, so I hit the throttle and went to Hudson VFR Corridor where on the 123.05 unicom every pilot was talking about a "commuter plane gone into the WTC". By the time I'm right next to WTC I see this airliner coming down in a steep bank, first I thought he was a gawker too, taking a closer look at the fire, and I thought "this guy is gonna get so fired by his airline for this!", and the rest you know is history..."

Click Here to view the photo

great post. thanks.

Thanks!

I still can't believe they are gone.

Anyone else find yourself searching the NY skyline in commercials and pre-9/11 TV shows just to see them again?

The pics illustrate that unless they (the scumbag, evil, hijacking terrorists) were blind, there was no credible way in which to miss the towers.

I sure do. It gives me chills everytime.

Yup. I saw a Limp Bizkit video for Rollin' and they were evidently on the roof of one of the towers. Video was probably about a year old or less.

All the time! ANd I hope that the producers of every piece of footage that has the twin towers included in it is left intact. I agree with Hollywood pulling the release of "Spiderman" and other such movies that would definatly would have been in bad taste, but I want to see them as they were and I want everyone to be reminded of what happened by seeing them standing.

I only had two short trips to Ney York City and they officially "dont count". My ship pulled into Governors Island and I only made it as far as the ferry terminal both times. But I did stand there and take in the whole skyline and thought that it was very beautiful. I figured that was close enough for a flatlander from Kansas.

It's eerie looking at the pictures of those two planes and imagining how the people inside were still completely unsuspecting except for about 3-4 of them in each.

Thanks for the picture links... There is no doubt that they were easy targets. I hope that if they rebuild that they stick to building smaller buildings. Personally I don't know how anyone that escaped from them could ever go into another skyscraper after this.

Thanks.

BUMP!

Yes.

just spent the last hour at airliners.net. had never heard of it. there are some ultra tasty aviation shots there. worked my way through about 12 pages of the most popular of all time section. thanks again for the heads up.

"Anyone else find yourself searching the NY skyline in commercials and pre-9/11 TV shows just to see them again?"

YES - last night watching an OLD episode of NYPD BLUE at 1:00 in the morning, I noticed they used it in the background of a shot. They also showed the skyline at night, and, how could you not notice those buildings?

Why are the wheels down on the airplanes? I don't recall the wheels being down in the tv footage.

Anyone else find yourself searching the NY skyline in commercials and pre-9/11 TV shows just to see them again?

Yes, I was watching a rerun of Friends the other night and in one scene Joey was out trying to learn how to sail, and you could see the twin towers in the background at times. Also, in other city shots during the show you can sometimes see the towers.

First United Airlines plane used on Flight 93 which hit the WTC Click Here to view the photo

This is the 757 which crashed in Pennsylvania. The planes that were flown into the WTC were both 767's.