[Trending] 20+ Rare Scenes Of 9/11 You Probably Haven’t Seen Before

It has been 16 years since the devastating attacks of September 11. Coverage of the tragedy during which nearly 3,000 perished was the main priority that day for most Western news agencies (the scenes were witnessed by an estimated two billion people – a third of the human race). Together with amateur records, this has produced such an incredible amount of footage, some of it is rarely seen even today.

To remind us why we should never forget, Bored Panda has collected some of the rarest 9/11 pictures from across the internet. From street-shots of the towers going down to satellite images of New York City, these photos reveal new angles of the horrific day that changed the world for ever.

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As seen through a fish-eye lens from an apartment four blocks away, smoke streams from the north tower within minutes of the first plane’s attack

Image credits: Patricia McDonough

American Airlines Flight 11 (visible in the upper right-hand corner of the photo) approaches the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

American Airlines Flight 11 (visible in the upper right-hand corner of the photo) approaches the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This largely unknown triptych (the subsequent images follow), shot from a Brooklyn window, was part of an ongoing Internet art exhibition that displayed updated panoramas of downtown Manhattan every four seconds. A time code can be seen in the lower right-hand corner of each frame.

Image credits: Wolfgang Staehle

Not yet realizing a terrorist attack was in progress, architect and amateur pilot Isabel Daser, eight months pregnant, asked a co-worker to take her portrait as a record of the day

Image credits: Daser Bessler

A knot of bystanders at Park Row and Beekman Street look up as the south tower begins to collapse

Image credits: Patrick Witty

At Rector Street and Broadway, a photographer leaned out his window with a medium-format camera and caught the moment before the second plane’s impact

Image credits: Rob Howard

An expert in 19th-century photographic techniques brought a wooden view camera and a daguerreotype plate to his Chelsea rooftop, capturing this three-second exposure as the south tower disappeared on the horizon

Image credits: Jerry Spagnoli

On a Brooklyn rooftop shortly after the collapse of the Twin Towers

On a Brooklyn rooftop shortly after the collapse of the Twin Towers, Jenna Piccirillo and three-month-old Vaughan embody innocence and resilience, according to the photographer: “Life continues in the face of disaster . . . despite the horrors we inflict on one another.”

Image credits: Alex Webb/Magnum Photos

The photographer considered this 9/11 Brooklyn scene too tranquil at the time. He decided not to publish the image widely until four years after the attacks

Image credits: Thomas Hoepker/Magnum Photos

Smoke plumes are clearly visible in this Landsat 7 satellite image of New York City made early on September 12

Image credits: NASA

News of the attacks sent many New Yorkers into the streets with cameras

News of the attacks sent many New Yorkers into the streets with cameras.
Here, a photographer turns away from the disaster to capture a tearful stranger
who has set her camera aside.

Image credits: Cynthia Colwell

Freelance photographer Bill Baggart was killed in the north tower’s collapse. Crews recovered his battered equipment – and some three-hundred pictures

Image credits: Tom McKitterick

“Missing” posters bearing photos of the lost cover a Greenwich Village pizzeria

Image credits: David Turnley

During an event in a Florida classroom, Chief of Staff Andrew Card informs President George W. Bush, “A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.”

Image credits: Win McNamee

The south tower disintegrates, raining debris behind a cross atop Trinity church

Image credits: James Nachtwey / VII for Time

A lone man runs down Broadway as a smoke and dust cloud comes up the street from the collapsing World Trade Center buildings in New York September 11, 2001

Image credits: Kelly Price

People run down Broadway as a smoke and dust cloud comes up the street from the collapsing World Trade Center buildings in New York

Image credits: Kelly Price

Rescue workers carry fatally injured New York City Fire Department chaplain, the Rev. Mychal Judge

Rescue workers carry fatally injured New York City Fire Department chaplain, the Rev. Mychal Judge, from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York City early September 11, 2001. Chaplain was crushed to death by falling debris while giving a man last rites in the trade center.

Image credits: Shannon Stapleton

A dust covered bronze statue of a man with his briefcase rests in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers September 13, 2001 in New York

A dust covered bronze statue of a man with his briefcase rests in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers September 13, 2001 in New York. The statue once rested on a bench near the towers and now holds flowers and a note reading ” In memory of all who gave their lives and try to save so many”.

Image credits: Beth A. Keiser

Engine 28 firefighter Mike Kehoe, from Staten Island, assists in the evacuation effort in a stairwell of Tower One

Image credits: John Labriola

Rescue workers stand near the twisted remains of the fallen World Trade Center towers

Image credits: Beth Kaiser

Emergency personnel carry an orange body bag with the remains of a victim of the World Trade Center crash from the rubble

Image credits: Bill Farrington

A firefighter rests on the bumper of his firetruck as he pauses while working at the site of the World Trade Center collapse Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001

Image credits: Amy Sancetta

Makeshift clinics were set up in the area, including this one in Liberty Park

Image credits: Reuters

A plane explodes after hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center as the other tower burns

Image credits: Sara K. Schwittek

Messages scrawled in debris dust on the ladder truck door

Messages scrawled in debris dust on the ladder truck door of Ladder Company 24 join a growing memorial on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 in New York City to the firefighers from the company who lost their lives in the suspected terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Ladder Company 24 lost 7 firemen in the attack, including Fire Chaplain Father Mychal Judge.

Image credits: Amy Sancetta

This satellite image of Manhattan, New York was collected at 11:43 a.m

This satellite image of Manhattan, New York was collected at 11:43 a.m. on September 12, 2001 by Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite. The image shows an area of white dust and smoke at the location where the 1,350-foot towers of the World Trade Center once stood. IKONOS travels 423 miles above the Earth’s surface at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour

Image credits: spaceimaging

Smoke from the remains of New York’s World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan

Image credits: Ray Stubblebine

Several buildings in the trade center complex collapsed following a terrorist attack

Image credits: Petra Beter

This series of photographs shows hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 as it approaches and impacts the World Trade Center’s south tower

Image credits: Sean Adair

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