Airplanes would come up from the south and then turn west near the Statue of Liberty onto final approach. Paul was thinking the same thing I was: the jetliner was on an approach to Newark's shortest and most seldom used runway, and was, for some reason, slightly off course. 'Now what's this guy doing?' I asked Paul. Paul Smith, my pilot, saw it before I did -an airliner, traveling from south to north, traveling low and fast. Wrote:We were climbing through eleven hundred feet toward an assigned altitude of fifteen hundred feet, and then we saw it. Remember, ABC Chopper 7 and Chopper 2 were coming from the same airport, so the were on the same route around the same time. and following weeks.ДЎ1m38s - ' Chopper X' 2nd hit (missed) footage angle is nearly duplicated (edit: nearly, but not).ДЎ3m18s - cut to WNYW Chopper 5 for 7 seconds, then back to CBS 2 southern angle closeup on WTC 1. only to be kept grounded for the rest of the day. The video switches between ABC 'NewsCopter 7' (traffic Chopper 880) and CBS 2 (with a little WNYW in between).Д¬BS is seen again at 10m53s, a short time after which ( 11m15s) an unidentified chopper crosses the screen from left to right at a lower altitude.ДЎ1m32s - ABC is seen, the WESCAM zoom shot at 9:06:40 am, as the chopper that filmed the famous International Shot of the 2nd impact quickly leaves the scene (speed determination?) headed north - as we now know - to refuel. or, more importantly, if FOX mislabeled some of the news feed. Some people may ask if the FOX rebroadcast was edited for time before vrt 10m13s, the time CBS chopper 2 1st aired its aerial shot. All times are determined based upon this fact. Add this after '#t=' at the end of a YouTube video to link to exact time in video Ex: )Д§m52s is 9:03:00 am, time of the WTC 2 explosion upon plane impact.

(format: '0m2s' means 0 minutes 2 seconds.

The screenshots above are from the FOX memorial rebroadcast 'The Day America Changed' in 2006/7: Ebbetts DVD 'As It Happened.' Other CBS2 footage is scarce, and it's non-chopper footage.

Why didn't the 9:03 shot air on TV, if the chopper was there (or at least close enough to zoom the camera)?Д¬BS2 broadcast the 2nd hit LIVE from the building cam described here: CBS-2 LIVE. The footage is only available as a 9 second clip in the 2005 TLC documentary ' Flight 175: As the World Watched'. Considering the similarity of views above, the small time difference between them- and after using the process of elimination- there were only 6 news choppers in the air -it is likely (edit: but NOT true) that CBS2 filmed the 'Chopper X' footage of the fireball on WTC 2 just after (and perhaps during) the 2nd plane hit- from the southern side. 9:03:05 - UPDATE: ABC Chopper 7 shot the TLC footage -Д¬BS chopper 2 first broadcast LIVE from south of the WTC complex, beginning at 9:05:21 (+/- 5 seconds), according to footage described below. On edit: UPDATE: Jim Smith reports from Chopper 2 as the North Tower collapses! Perhaps Smith, Biermann, and Leach flew back to refuel, then were disallowed from returning after the 'collapses.'ДЄppx. Jeff McKay's statement 'flying toward Manhattan' has no reference. This doesn't specify a time for landing orders, which were given by the FAA nationwide at about 9:40 (for airplanes, that is). We turned around, landed, and spent three months on the ground.' - Jeff McKay, correspondent mirrored at. 'We were airborne and were told bluntly, 'Land immediately or you will be shot down.' We didn't hesitate. On 9/11, Biermann and his pilot were in the air, flying toward Manhattan when an air traffic controller gave them an ultimatum. I thought airborne news reporting and helicopter coverage might have come to an end,' said Joe Biermann, helicopter news reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City who was unable to fly for 90 days due to flight restrictions around New York City. Wrote:'I was wondering if I was still going to have a job.

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