НЕИЗВЕСТНЫЕ ФОТОГРАФИИ 9/11/2001

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  Фотографии атаки на башни, поступившие в печать по запросу ABC News и опубликованные в "Тамс" в феврале этого года.
  Автор - детектив Грег Семендинжер, фото сделаны с вертолета в течение 3 часов.



World Trade Centre
The images were released after a Freedom of Information request by ABC News
Det. Greg Semendinger/NYPD via ABC News/AP

Detective Greg Semendinger, who took the photographs, told The Times that he took off from Floyd Bennett airfield in Brooklyn immediately after the first hijacked airliner slammed into the twin towers
Det. Greg Semendinger/NYPD via ABC News/AP

The detective and his co-pilot headed towards the centre aiming to look for survivors on the roof, but got nowhere near the scene, such was the devastation
Det. Greg Semendinger/NYPD via ABC News/AP

"We were there when the second plane hit. We did not see the plane coming but we saw the explosion," he said
Det. Greg Semendinger/NYPD via ABC News/AP

"We never even saw the roof of the south tower. If anyone did make it to the roof we could not see them. On the north tower, nobody made it to the roof," he said

"We saw things falling but we did were too far away to realise they were people," he said

In the air for three hours, Detective Semendinger took three rolls of 36 stills with his personal Minolta Maxxum 7000 camera and another 245 with his digital Olympus U-2100

He gave his photographs - some of which had already leaked to the Internet - to the 9/11 commission set up to investigate the attack. From there, they made their way to the National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of its probe of the buildings’ collapse

After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre, Detective Semendinger had been the first helicopter pilot to respond and had lifted a pregnant woman from
the roof