Reply #9: "footage of the destruction"

[Beam Me Up]

Yes, there were cameras showing the smoke and distruction not long after the impact. But there was no broadcast of the actual impact at the time.

Considering that they might have died in one of the worst disasters of modern times, the French brothers Gedeon and Jules Naudet are remarkably cool and calm about what they saw and filmed at the World Trade Center on 11 September. ,snip.

Jules had gone out with a fire crew checking a suspected gas leak. They heard a plane. Jules panned his camera up and remembers how he even saw the American Airlines logo on the aircraft.

It was he who took the now famous shot of that first plane smashing into the North Tower.

He then followed the firefighters into the building.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2236210.stm