![]() In the lobby, Dave Kravette had just ridden down from the Cantor Fitzgerald office to meet his guests, after ending the conversation with his wife about the newspaper delivery. Nothing else could rock the place with such power. ![]() Mike McQuaid, the electrician installing fire alarms, was sure he knew what he was feeling: an exploding transformer, from a machine room somewhere below the 91st floor. ![]() Something had happened in the other building, Sibarium thought. After the initial slam, Rob Sibarium could feel every one of those square feet tilting as the tower bent south, so far that it seemed as if it would never recoil. On the southwest end of the 89th floor, the insurance company MetLife had 10,000 square feet of space. A bomb, they decided, several breaths later. Before Pilipiak could get the words "Good morning" out of his mouth, he felt something smack the back of his head, and he was hurled into a wall. Akane Ito heard him coming and looked up from her desk to greet him. In another part of the floor, Walter Pilipiak had just pushed open the door to the offices of Cosmos International, an insurance brokerage where he was president. ![]() The door swung free, even though she had bolted it shut. At 8:46:30, an impact had knocked her off a chair in the law office on the 89th floor of the north tower, 1 World Trade Center. A bomb, Dianne DeFontes thought, when thinking became possible again. ![]()
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