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Or tons of helicopters trying to save those stranded on the roof? Seriously NYC doesn't have any police/rescue helicopters?

• dia80 10y ago
  I'm guessing the tremendous amount of smoke and all the obstructions on the roof would have made this impractical. The situation wouldn't have been aided by helicopters falling on to rescuers below.
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• mgkimsal 10y ago
  " and there were no plans for helicopter rescues from the roof, as the NYPD deemed it too unsafe to attempt due to dense clouds of smoke and rooftop antennas." If you're referring the 9/11 situation, this is the reason why it wasn't attempted - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clark_(September_11_survivor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clark_(September_11_surv... That said, I suspect that had they known the towers were going to go down within 2 hours, there might have been some different decisions made. But that's just hindsight. :/
  • tomjen3 10y ago
    Right it has been so long that I forgot it was a surprise that the towers collapsed that day. I remembered it a as being obvious, which it is in hindsight.