9/11 - Video of First Plane Attack - WNYW TV

The following features rare WNYW TV videotape of the first hijacked plane attack on the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 AM EDT on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The WNYW TV camera that captured this scene was at rest, pointed downward toward the street at the time, because the camera was not relaying live pictures for air on Channel 5 (that is to say, it was only videotaping, not airing live). As a result of the camera pointing downward, we hear the plane overhead and we hear it crash into the WTC north tower, but we do not see the plane itself.