Elinda Kiss was sitting at a breakfast meeting in the Ball Room of World Trade Center 3 when the first plane struck. She was a newly elected board member of NABE (National Association for Business Economics.) She and the others heard a loud “boom” and saw the chandelier shake. The person sitting next to her remarked, “I did not know you had hurricanes in New York.”
A security guard informed them that a plane had just hit One World Trade Center (the North Tower) and everyone should evacuate the building. Just after leaving, a colleague asked Kiss to return to the building, as he was concerned for his wife. As they neared the World Trade Center again, Kiss and her colleague witnessed the second plane as it struck Two World Trade Center (South Tower).
