9/11: The Miracle Survivor

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On September 11, 2001, Pasquale Buzzelli, a structural engineer, kissed his eight-month pregnant wife goodbye and headed to work on the 64th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. A little while later, he was “surfing” debris as he rode a blizzard of destruction from a 22nd-floor World Trade Center stairwell and somehow survived.

This documentary tells his story and includes interviews with Buzzelli’s wife Louise, the firefighters who braved the danger to rescue him, and forensic scientists and physicists who dissect the technical elements that led to his ability to make it through alive.