Jules Clément Naudet and brother Thomas Gédéon Naudet are French-American filmmakers. The brothers, residents of the United States since 1989 and citizens since 1999, were in New York City at the time of the September 11 attacks to film a documentary on members of the Engine 7, Ladder 1 firehouse in Lower Manhattan.
Gédéon Naudet (left) and Jules Naudet (right), posing with their Peabody Award, May 2003
DCR vx2100 camcorder used by Jules Naudet that captured Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked airliner was deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing everyone aboard the flight and resulting in the deaths of more than one thousand people in the top 18 stories of the skyscraper in addition to causing the demise of numerous others below the trapped floors, making it not only the deadliest of the four suicide attacks executed that morning in terms of both plane and ground fatalities, but also the single deadliest act of terrorism in human history and the deadliest plane crash of all time. The aircraft involved, a Boeing 767-223ER with 92 passengers and crew, was flying American Airlines' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Boston Logan International Airport in Massachusetts to Los Angeles International Airport in California.
N334AA, the aircraft involved, taxiing at Manchester Airport on April 8, 2001.
Atta (blue shirt) and Omari at Portland International Jetport, passing through security on the morning of 9/11
Lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, who commandeered American Airlines Flight 11, and crashed it into the North Tower.
Jules Naudet filmed the impact of Flight 11 as it crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.