North tower

American Airlines Flight 11 (visible in the upper right-hand corner of the photo) approaches the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This largely unknown triptych (the subsequent images follow), shot from a Brooklyn window, was part of an ongoing Internet art exhibition that displayed updated panoramas of downtown Manhattan every four seconds. A time code can be seen in the lower right-hand corner of each frame.

Close-up of the 107th & 106th floors of the North Tower.

The video shows up-close shots of the lower floors of Building 7, which was was hit by debris from the collapsing Twin Towers, causing massive fire and leading it to crumble later in the day.

Two photographs taken from the northwest show the North Tower and part of the South Tower after both had been struck. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rudis323/

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