Geoff deLesseps was on the telephone at 8.45am, talking to his wife from his office on the 80th floor of the northern tower of the World Trade Centre in lower Manhattan. "I was meant to be going on a business trip tomorrow and she had this strange feeling about airplanes, I swear to God," said the 37-year-old chief executive officer.
Then the first of the kamikaze planes hit the building a few floors above, cutting a cartoon-like outline into the 1,362ft building, once the tallest in the world. The most spectacular terrorist attack on the United States had begun.
Twenty minutes later another plane hit the second tower of the complex. Soon people were hanging on for their lives - and falling - 1,000 ft above the ground under blue skies and a pale half-moon.
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