In addition to everyone aboard Flight 175, the impact slaughtered an unknown number of people on the nine impact-affected floors, leaving others fatally or severely injured. The dead and injured included many of an estimated two hundred men and women who congregated in the 78th floor sky lobby during the initial haphazard go-don’t-go evacuation. The plane’s left wing shredded that floor, killing and maiming men and women as they waited for their places in packed lobby-bound express elevators, as well as others who hoped to catch local elevators to return to their offices. For a moment all was
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