Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram had not yet been developed, and the world as a whole was far less documented at any given moment - a cultural circumstance that has vastly changed in the intervening two decades.Ī consequence of that was that aside from surveillance footage, few people, if any, captured the moment that shocking and surprising things were going to happen, making the attacks a fertile ground for conspiracy theories to take root. Smartphones as we know them were virtually non-existent, along with the videos and photographs they have the ability to capture. As of 8:45 AM (one minute before), few Americans other than the doomed passengers of the flight and air traffic controllers had any inkling anything that was amiss on what was by all accounts a beautiful September day in New York City. The first clip’s title belied that sentiment in saying it was the “only existing footage” of Flight 11 as it crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower at 8:46 AM, on a day that shocked Americans to the core.Īt the time it was filmed, several things were undeniably true. That video was first shared to a conspiracy theory YouTube channel (“Real 911questions”) in June 2015, accruing millions of views. As the anniversary of Septemapproached in 2019, a video called “The Only Existing Footage Of 1st Plane Hitting WTC” circulated on social media in remembrance of a brief but pivotal moment in American history - but it’s straight from a disinformation site.
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