Those who had been in the towers when the bomb had gone off in 1993 had heard countless times about how the helicopters had settled softly on the roofs and carried people to safety. Bob Mattson, a banker with Fiduciary Trust International and now trapped in the south tower, had been one of those lifted to safety that day. It had been the work of Police Department pilots, but for many, it had been an earthly approximation of heavenly intercession. This was nothing like 1993, Detective Greg Semendinger thought as he and his copilot, Officer James Ciccone, circled the buildings in Aviation 6,
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