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“Where was Howard Lutnick on 9/11 when he should have been in the North Tower working for Cantor Fitzgerald?…”

Howard Lutnick was dropping his five-year-old son off at kindergarten on the morning of September 11, 2001, which is why he was not in the North Tower of the World Trade Center when American Airlines Flight 11 struck at 8:46 a.m. 

He was at Horace Mann School in Manhattan, a private institution on the Upper East Side, where he had taken his son for his first day of school.  This decision saved his life, as the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, where he was CEO, occupied the 101st to 105th floors—just above the impact zone—of the North Tower.  All 658 employees of Cantor Fitzgerald who were present that day, including his younger brother Gary, were killed. 

Multiple sources confirm this, including interviews with Connie Chung on ABC News and statements from Lutnick himself in later years.  He has described arriving at the scene shortly after the attack, seeing people fleeing, and attempting to find survivors by asking evacuees what floor they came from. 

“Where was Howard Lutnick’s brother on 9/11 when he should have been in the north tower working for Cantor Fitzgerald?…”

Howard Lutnick’s younger brother, Gary Lutnick, was in Cantor Fitzgerald’s offices on the 104th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, where he worked.  He was among the 658 employees who died when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. 

Multiple sources confirm that Gary made several phone calls during the attack, including to his ex-girlfriend and his sister Edie, saying goodbye and describing the smoke filling the floors. He also attempted to call his brother Howard, who was not in the building because he was dropping his son off at kindergarten. 

Gary Lutnick’s name is inscribed at the 9/11 Memorial in remembrance. 

“What happened to the indestructible black box flight recorders that were involved in the 9/11 incident? Were they destroyed somehow…?”

The black box flight recorders (both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder) from American Airlines Flight 11, which struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, were never recovered. 

According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the FBI, no flight recorders were found in the debris from either of the two planes that hit the Twin Towers (Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175).  The recorders are built to withstand extreme conditions, but the catastrophic impact, intense fires, and subsequent collapse of the towers—which pulverized everything inside—likely destroyed them or rendered them unrecoverable. 

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