Part 2/4:
A Moment of Terror
Suddenly, the situation escalated from peculiar to perilous. Doug observed the airplane descending with alarming velocity. “What is this plane doing coming so fast?” he thought as he watched the aircraft, nose down, hurtling toward the iconic silhouette of the Twin Towers. In an instant, the ominous reality of the situation crystallized as the jet collided violently with the first tower.
The sound of the impact and the ensuing chaos would forever be etched in Doug’s mind. “I think it was just from the heat of the fire," he surmised in an attempt to rationalize the unfathomable.