Huge explosion in basement of WTC prior to first airplane crash

afoaf

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holy christ, you really mean what you just wrote, don't you?
 

john4surf

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How come the the firemen and the guy's shooting an unrelated documentary close by didn't feel it? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />
If you'd ever been to the city you'd know that the guys shooting the documentary were not nearby.

This was their footage

Those buildings were massive. To have such a vantage point you can't be close. They were a minimum of 15 blocks from the WTC (church and lispenard) and probably further from the 1st tower to be hit.

I have friends that watched the towers go down from canal st. which is only 1 block north of lispenard and they have told me numerous times they didn't feel those buildings go down. Why would these firefighters feel smaller charges go off in a sub-basement that far away? Besides every new yorker knows the ground shakes all over manhattan any time a subway car passes beneath you. Most wouldn't flinch if they did feel it.
Anecdotal hi-jack... I was looking out a window in the 80's when a navy jet flew over our 3 story building just missing the top and then pointed it's nose straight up. The canopy flew off and the pilot ejected perpendicular to the ground. The plane continued straight up for a brief moment and then fell tail first to the ground and crashed about 1/2 block from my vantage point, into the Kyrocera parking lot.

Two others in the room witnessed the crash. The three of us talked later. We all heard the fly by but none of us heard or felt the crash. Others came running into the room asking (yelling really) "What was that? What happened?"

First and only time my sense of sight took over my senses of hearing and feeling.
 

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I was looking out a window in the 80's when a navy jet flew over our 3 story building just missing the top and then pointed it's nose straight up. The canopy flew off and the pilot ejected perpendicular to the ground.

If the nose of the plane was headed straight up when the canopy flew off, wouldn't the pilot eject parallel to the ground?