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After 23 years: The September 11th Witness found rare attacks of attack (video)

The American tried to save his old archives on video cassets, digitizing data. So he found footage, which took off almost a quarter of a century ago. 23 years after the terrorist attack in New York, previously unknown attacks of attack on the World Trade Center on September 11 were discovered. About it writes the British edition of Daily Star. Japanese origin, Kay Sugimoto, who witnessed the event, shared his historical shots on YouTube.

They depict the moment of collapse of the building after a terrorist attack of that fatal day. The witness of the event was 24 years old. The video describes: "The footage I removed during the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It was removed from the roof of the house 64 along Saint-Marx Plais Street in New York on the Sony VX2000 camera with a TV convertible. " The footage begins after both VTC towers have already been amazed by airliners captured by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

In the comments, the author explained why he published the filmed material right now. "I was picking up in the closet and finding boxes full of Hi-8, Digital-8 and DV cartridges. When I tried to reproduce them, I noticed that maybe about a third of them were over time with and were either empty or serious damage Data, "Kay Sugimoto confessed.

He added that, as it turned out, video cassettes were not immune to aging, even if stored in ideal conditions, so they had to hurry to digitize and download old videos on information storage services. Among them was found. As a result of the attacks of 19 members of the Jihadist terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" seized four passenger planes, one of which was crashed into the Pentagon, and two-into the World Mall in New York. About 16,000 people were in the VTC towers below the aircraft.