Kei Sugimoto recently found the footage he’d taken of the Twin Towers collapsing on 9/11
Warning: Contains content some readers may find distressing
Nearly 23 years ago, two planes crashed into New York City’s World Trade Centre in a tragic and infamous terrorist attack.
Almost 3,000 people died on 11 September 2001, with many more lives lost and affected in the aftermath of 9/11.
With much of the second plane’s crash was captured live on TV broadcasts, there has long been terrifying footage of the events that unfolded.
But it seems there are still videos yet to be shared as a man has now released what he filmed on that day over 22 years ago, with many saying this shows the collapse of the Twin Towers from an ‘unseen angle’.
The attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 shook the world when it happened (HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
Kei Sugimoto took to YouTube earlier this week (23 July) to share his original footage ‘from the roof of 64 St Marks Place in NYC on a Sony VX2000 with teleconverter’ on 11 September 2001.
His video has since gone viral on the likes of X where users say it shows ‘new angles of the collapse’.
“This footage offers a unique perspective not seen from the south or east,” one said. “You are watching these angles for the first time ever.”
Sugimoto’s video shows the towers billowing out black smoke before each eventually collapsing to the ground.
The harrowing video shows the collapses. (YouTube/ Kei Sugimoto)
Over on Reddit, users said: “It’s crazy that we’re almost 23 years out and still getting new footage.”
While another added: “Makes me wonder how much history is being stored in people’s attics or basements waiting to be unearthed.”
In the YouTube comments, Sugimonto explained further his decision to now release it after so long.
He wrote: “I was cleaning my closet and found boxes full of Hi-8, Digital-8, and DV tapes.
“When trying to play them back I noticed that maybe about a 3rd of them had demagnetized over time and were either blank, or suffering from major data corruption.
“After researching online I learned that video tapes are not immune from age even when stored in ideal conditions, so I franntially started to digitize them. Thus I’m just uploading the video now.”
He also added that while he did witness the second plane crash, he didn’t film it.
“If I remember correctly,” he wrote, “I think I ran to get my video camera after seeing the second plane crash sensing that this was no ordinary accident.”
Users thanked him for sharing the ‘unique perspective’ and called the ‘crystal clear’ footage ‘devastating’.
