Brian Clark

The second hijacked plane crashed into the south tower (WTC 2), between the seventy-eighth and eightyfourth floors. Brian Clark is an executive vice president at Euro Brokers, a brokerage firm located on the eighty-fourth floor of Tower Two. He is one of only four people who escaped from either tower who were on floors above where the planes crashed. In the following essay, Clark provides an eyewitness account of the crash into Tower Two and his attempt to get his coworkers to evacuate the building by going down the stairs. Some people felt they would be safer going up to the building's roof, where they hoped to be rescued by helicopters. Tragically, they perished when the building collapsed. On Clark's way down the stairs, he heard a man calling for help and he stopped to help...