I originally posted this in r/September11 a while back, but I think it’s important to also post it here as the general idea is that only around 18 people survived above the impact zone when Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. The plane hit between floors 77 – 85. There’s also a lot of older articles that has all of people listed accounts and also other stories.
Joe Dittmar (105)
Unknown 6/7 other Aon workers (105)
Kelly Rehyer (100)
Judy Wein (100)
Michelle Cruz Rosado (95)
Sophia Cannon (92)
Ling Young (86)
Mary Jos (86)
Richard Fern (84)
Ron DiFrancesco (84)
Brian Clark (84)
Stanley Praimnath (81)
Jonathan Weinberg (77)
listed now are the well known survivors. I got this list from Quora and added Sophia Cannon as she came forward on the same post. There’s seven/eight 105 workers, two 100 workers, one 95 worker, one 92 worker, two 86 workers, three 84 workers, one 81 worker and one 77 worker. These are the more well-known stories of survival, however, there’s many stories we still haven’t heard of. Sophia Cannon recently went public about her story and there was some people accusing her of lying. This type of mentally can make future survivors afraid of coming out. Not to mention, as this incident the world, these people were affected the most. I was born after 2001 so obviously I don’t have any personal connections to this other than i’m from Western New York and it still feels like home was hit even though I never been to NYC. These people went through hell, and we aren’t gonna know every single survivor’s story sadly.
user u/Traceurity from r/September11 made this post talking about how the 77th was technically hit, but with their own research found that floor 77 had no confirmed fatalities. Jonathan Weinberg was one of the 13 workers and he is one of the well known survivors of the south tower. Everyone on floor 77 survived. If he add 13 and remove 1, this would make 30 people survive the impact zone or above.
u/Traceurity is continuing this post with another one of their post! This one is a little older but still is affective.
this one goes into more detail about floor 77. u/Flea_Flicker (who we’ll get to later too) commented and found two other survivors on that floor named Florence Jones and Eric Thompson. Florence Jones was number 18 in the last 25 people who left the South Tower. 4 of Florence’s colleagues died, but according to the article below, the only named victim, Jill Maurer Campbell, worked on the 78th floor. Eric was reportedly seen on the 77th floor by Mary Jos.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/911-survivor-story-stays-david-muir-reflects/story?id=79881312
adding these two, we’re up to 32 survivors. But were not done yet. In the same reddit post, Trace mentions a Anthony Mauro. He was on the 107th floor as a construction worker and was working, until a unknown port authority officer told him to get. They managed to escape the tower all together before it got hit. If you consider them as above survivors, then that would make 34.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYWGgCjraFM
So back on u/Flea_Flicker a year ago, they made a similar post on what me and Trace are making and they have more details and more people about it
https://www.reddit.com/r/September11/comments/pswwic/list_of_the_18_people_who_survived_at_or_above/
to add on our list to make it number 35 is Martin Glynn. Martin Glynn is a lot like Sophia Cannon, as in they wait until recently to become public. This is what I mean when I said that we aren’t gonna know every person’s story, stuff like this takes a long time to heal and has a lot of baggage to it and I feel like us, who either was born after 2001 or wasn’t in New York/Pentagon during this don’t fully understand the severe level of trauma this caused for those inside those buildings. There was a CNN Transcript that Flea found when he talks about what im gonna share but that seemed to be when he was stress and all hyper if that makes sense.
User u/Tonyoh87 replied to Flea and found another survivor, James Dorney. Dorney was still in the tower when it got hit, at around the 70th floor. He originally worked on the 94th floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n–T14LMXY
There was also a woman named Nena, from The Bronx. she claimed to have been 21 and working on the 84th floor of the South Tower and lost 61 colleagues, most just continued to work. I’m not gonna add her as I don’t have a last name and I tried finding her specifically but I only found articles about her with no last name. If she is a survivor, then that would make her number 37, but because I can’t find anything about her, we are still at 36. If you do know her, please let her tell more if she’s comfortable. Every story deserves to be heard!
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000761-5,00.html
Next we got Felipe Oyola. Felipe and his wife, Adianes, both worked in the South Tower but on different floors. Felipe worked at the 81th floor and met his wife on the 78th floor lobby, but both returned to their offices when the announcements told them it was safe. Felipe survived, Adianes did not. This would make Felipe the 37th victims as of right now
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/five-who-survived-144813%3famp=1
Kelly Rehyer was talking about escaping the south tower with two co-workers, Keating Crown and Donna Spera (both 100) while they were still in above or the impact zone when the towers were hit. Welles Crowther worked in the south tower and was in the 78th floor along with Judy and Ling when the south tower got hit. There was 250 people on that floor when 175 crashed into the South Tower, and many people on that floor died on impact, but there was quite a few survivors. Welles was one of those survivors. He confirmed helped Judy, Ling and along with Gigi Singer and two unknown people including a unknown young woman who Welles carried. It’s suspected that he helped between 10 – 18 people but I can only confirmed 5 as of right now as Judy and Ling only talked about 3 others being saved. Welles unfortunately died saving others.
https://www.mishalov.com/wtc_fightingtolive.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2002-06-02-0206020080-story.html
Marissa Panigrosso and Sarah Dechalus were both AON employees on the 98th floor with Eric Eisenburg and Gary Herold. Marissa, Sarah and Eric were on the 78th floor while Gary still was on the 98th floor, getting people out silently. Eric also helped guide his fellow workers. Marissa met up with Mary Jo Arrowsmith, who was crying. Marissa, Sarah and Mary escaped and survived, Eric and Gary did not.
In the Sun Sentinel article, Christine Sasser, along with Donovan Cowan, Vijayashanker Paramsothy, Richard Gabrielle, Howard Kestenbaum and Doris Torres were all in the 78 lobby (minus Christine, who went to an upper floor with a friend) when the plan hit. Kestenbaum died on impact but everyone else survived. Richard’s leg was crushed however and while Mary Jos tried helping him, he told her to go. Vijayashanker stayed behind, last seen holding Howard’s glasses. He didn’t make it. Christine, Doris and Donovan survived. However, Doris died of her injuries 5 days later on September 16th, leaving Sasser and Cowan as the only survivors in that group. Technically Doris did survive the collapsed but she is a 9/11 victim, so it’s up to the person if they consider her a survivor.
Ed Nicholls and Karen Hagerty were also in the 78th lobby when it was hit. Ed survived while Karen, who joked about having to see her 3 pets, died. Moira Smith was helping a man in that iconic photo that we all know, and it turns out that the man is Ed Nicholl
To continue Christine’s story and to open another one, best friends Christine Sasser and Silvion Ramsundar were on the 80th floor and were about to leave when the plane hit, both survived. Christine went down while Ramsundar waited a few minutes to think about getting his wallet, but leaving quickly too. Ramsundar was injured with parts of the plane in his shoulder, when Doug Brown (70) and Stan Kapica (70) saw him and helped him. All 4 survived.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44260174https://patch.com/new-jersey/wyckoff/20th-anniversary-9-11-ed-zier-has-story-tell
Cynthia Branco’s husband, Brian, worked on the 78th floor of the south tower. She tried pushing him to leave but he declined. Brian’s floor is where the skylobby is and where survivors Mary Jo Arrowsmith, Mary Jos, Ling Young, Donovan Cowan, Sarah Dechalus, Marissa Panigrosso, Keating Crown, Donna Spera, Kelly Rehyer, Ed Nicholls, Judy Wein and Gigi Singer were located when flight 175 hit the South Tower. However, Branco had an office on that floor.
The plane hit at an angle where he escaped unharmed. However he lost 4 colleagues, all worked on his floor: Jill Campbell, Ruth Lapin, Robert “Bob” Levine and Steve Weinberg.
Jyoti Vyas and her then unborn baby Shailaja were on the 78th floor when tower 1 was hit. Jyoti, who was 7 months pregnant, went to the 77th floor to call her husband Jaldhar. That decision ended up saving both of them.
Lara Lundstrom Clarke could’ve been the unknown 9th Baseline Financial Services floors survivor, but she survived in a unique way. Welles Crowther actually had a movie made about him, called The Man in the Red Bandana and the narrator was Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow was actually in New York during 9/11 but was still far enough away when she encountered Lara. Lara was starstruck upon seeing Gwyneth and actually missed her train. This little encounter saved Lara’s life for sure. As everyone on her floor survived, she still could’ve been the only victim if she was in there as life is all about where you are.Evangeline Dukas King got saved by a smoothie. She worked on the 78th floor and was craving a smoothie, so she went to the concourse level of the South Tower. That decision and sudden crave ended up saving her life.
https://www.silive.com/relationships/2013/11/post_10.html
Constance “Connie” Labetti worked on the 99th floor in the south tower when the first tower was hit. Her boss, Ron Fazio, told his employees to escape. Connie and Fazio’s secretary, Jillian, were together and 15 minutes into their escape, 175 crashed. It’s unknown what floor they were on though so we don’t know where they were.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/5947605.life-and-death-on-the-78th-floor/
Robert Eisenhardt, Robin Seaberry, Louis Sausa, Margaret Haley, Carol Cartwright, Louise Rosillo, and Stewart Hacker were all workers on the 103th floor. When they made it to the lobby, Robin and Margaret went on the elevator and were in the last successful service before the crash. The rest were on the 74th floor when the plane hit. All survived. Because they weren’t above or in the impact zone when it was hit, I’m gonna leave them for this but you can add them if you want.
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b15134lw45697x/where-did-everybody-go
I found this article too. Lauren Smith, Dean Eberling, Russ Keene and Linda Rothemund along with 11 – 25 other people were on a elevator when the second tower hit. It’s unsure what floor they were on but they fell 15 stories before the Elevator’s emergency brakes kicked in. They all boarded the elevator on the 78th floor and was close to the Lobby, so they weren’t near the 77th floor, but it was an interesting find. Lauren and Linda survived, Russ and Dean did not. The other 11 most likely also didn’t survive.
Other people who worked at Keefe, Bruyette & Wood were Will DeRiso (survivor), David Berry (victim), Christopher Duffy (victim), Joe J. Berry Sr. (victim), Gregory Trost (victim), Karol Keasler (victim), Kris Hughes (victim), Cristina DeFazio (survivor), Jessica Slavin (survivor), Adam Lewis (victim) and Cira Patti (victim)
Our Finalized List:
Joe Dittmar (105)
Unknown 7 other Aon workers (105)
Gigi Singer (103)
Judy Wein (103)
Ed Nicholls (102)
Kelly Rehyer (100)
Donna Spera (100)
Keating Crown (100)
Marissa Panigrosso (98)
Sarah Dechalus (98)
Mary Jo Arrowsmith (98)
Donovan Cowan (97)
Michelle Cruz Rosado (95)
Sophia Cannon (92)
Ling Young (86)
Mary Jos (86)
Martin Glynn (84)
Richard Fern (84)
Ron DiFrancesco (84)
Brian Clark (84)
Felipe Oyola (81)
Stanley Praimnath (81)
Christine Sasser (80)
Silvion Ramsundar (80)
Jyoti Vyas and Shailaja Vyas (78)
Brian Branco (78)
Unknown 2 workers in the 78th lobby (78)
Jonathan Weinberg (77)
Florence Jones (77)
Eric Thompson (77)
Unknown 8 Baseline Financial Services floor workers (77 – 78)
46-467 survivors
add if you want:
Anthony Mauro (107)
Robert Eisenhardt (101)
Margaret Haley (101)
Louise Rosillo (101)
Robin Seaberry (101)
Louis Sausa (101)
Stewart Hacker (101)
Carol Cartwright (101)
Constance Labetti (99)
Jillian (99)
Doris Torres (97)
James Dorney (94)
Nena (84)
Unknown Port Authority Officer (unknown)
This is a very long post, and to be honest I’m probably missing some people too (there’s still 19 people not accounted for who are confirmed alive) but as you can see, and after doing the math, there were 45 people who survived above floors – 78 and 77 when the south tower was hit. and if we had Anthony, Robert, Margaret, Louise, Robin, Louis, Stewart, Carol, Doris, James, Nena and the unknown guy, we would have 59-60 survivors. There is a possibility that a lot of people actually did manage to escape and we just don’t know them (There’s no info on Mary Jo Arrowsmith for example, except that Marissa and Sarah confirmed her survival).
A lot of these people are unknown because all of the articles about them are from 2001 – 2003
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