Twenty-one years after the 9/11 terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, one man who witnessed the atrocity firsthand and survived recounted to Fox News Digital his story of going to work on the World Trade Center’s 81st floor on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
David Paventi was working for a large bank based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. As he sat in a meeting on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower 21 years ago in a room with no windows, he felt the room shake, causing everyone in the room to look at each other.
"At first I thought it was an earthquake because the building shifted one way and then back the other, and then it started to shake," Paventi told Fox News Digital. "I started to go under the table because I didn’t want the light to fall on me, but everyone rapidly started exiting the room."
Paventi says the next thing he remembers is someone yelling, "A plane hit the building!" as people headed for the stairs.
