Original caption states: “New York, NY, September 13, 2001 — The airplane alert antenna sits firmly in the ground amidst the rubble. Originally it was on the roof of the World Trade Center. Photo by Andrea Booher/ FEMA Photo News”
A U.S. flag flies from a television antenna on September 13, 2001, amid the rubble of the World Trade Center after an airplane crashed into it on September 11 as part of the terrorist attack.
On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed them into targets in the United States, including the World Trade Center in New York City. This photograph was taken by photo documentarian Andrea Booher. After 9/11, she spent 10 weeks documenting Ground Zero for FEMA. The National Archives holds hundreds of images of her work.
The photograph Airplane Alert Antenna in World Trade Center Rubble is a part of America’s 100 Docs, an initiative of the National Archives Foundation in partnership with More Perfect that invites the American public to vote on 100 notable documents from the holdings of the National Archives. Visit 100docs.vote today.
