As seen from the Empire State Building… called Metrocam by the news presenters. This camera was shared by WABC and WNYW from the start of the day’s coverage, but WB11 aired the 2nd plane impact from this angle LIVE. Side note: See the new WPIX 9/11 memorial page now.
YougeneDebs used trig to discover the WB11 view “seems to be on the western half of the ESB at about the 88th storey. Notice the Staten Island shore line and structures there behind One Liberty Plaza, the old U.S. Steel building, the black building just to the left of center-frame for an estimate of the height of the perspective.”
No NIST Cumulus (release 14) files were provided (in the FOIA folder WPIX NIST DUB #1, the last clip, 109, ends before the event). The same was true for the WNYW Chopper5 footage. The 9/11 TV broadcast continually replayed the footage halfway, often with a meddlesome banner of text reading “TERRORIST ATTACK.” See also 911datasets.org NIST FOIA release 28, 42A0304 – G28D9 for a poor resolution 352×480 (width by height) broadcast running into late afternoon/evening (at my TV archive 2, corrected) and 42A0289 – G27D19 for a high quality TV broadcast from appx. 10:05 – 10:45 A.M. (enhanced for YT link 1 above)
WPIX (WB11) Metrocam
YouTube 1, 2, 3 & 4
