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A previously unseen video of the tragic 9/11 attacks has surfaced, offering a new perspective on the devastating events that took place over twenty years ago.
The video, which was recently uploaded to YouTube, provides a unique angle of the second plane’s collision with the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
The uploader, Kevin Westley, is a combat veteran who served in the 2003 Iraq war. He claims that the video had been mistakenly set to private on the platform for nearly two decades.
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According to the Department of Defense, the 9/11 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist actions in which four American commercial airplanes were hijacked.
Two of these planes were flown into the Twin Towers in New York City, another crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The last plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was headed for Washington, D.C.
However, courageous passengers on board managed to divert the plane, causing it to crash into a field in Pennsylvania and saving countless lives.
This newly surfaced video, which is almost nine minutes long, was made public last year. It captures the events of that tragic day from a different and remarkably clear angle, offering a fresh perspective on a tragedy that has been relived by Americans many times over.
Westley filmed the footage while standing on a boat amidst a crowd of shocked spectators, as reported by National World.
The video initially focuses on the flames engulfing the North Tower but then shifts dramatically just in time to capture the second plane as it directly collides with the South Tower.
Westley, who made the video public in February 2022, stated, “I posted this video in the 2000s but accidentally left it private until now. I noticed the video was private and made it public.”
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However, the circumstances surrounding the video’s absence from public view for two decades have raised skepticism.
Critics argue that Westley’s explanation doesn’t make sense, considering that YouTube was launched in 2005, four years after the 9/11 attacks. Additionally, changing a video’s privacy setting would not change its upload date, further casting doubt on Westley’s account.
YouTube, created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, former PayPal employees, was officially launched in 2005. It was later acquired by Google in 2006.
According to Westley’s YouTube account, it was created on December 31, 2006.
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