DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Ronnie Clifford managed
to escape the burning World Trade Center before it crumbled to the
ground. He later learned that his sister and niece were on one of
the two hijacked planes that hit it, his brother said.
"Tragically, my sister hit the tower building as my brother was
on the ground floor," John Clifford, of Cork, told Irish television
Wednesday.
"I was very concerned when the two buildings collapsed because I
knew Ronnie worked in one. He phoned to say he made it he was OK,
traumatized, that he was within an inch of his life."
But Ronnie later "had a feeling" their sister, Ruth McCourt,
might have been on one of the doomed planes, John Clifford said.
McCourt, 45, of Westford, Mass., and her 4-year-old daughter,
Juliana, had boarded United Airlines Flight 175 in Boston earlier
that morning for a trip to Los Angeles. Their flight slammed into
the south tower 18 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed
into the north tower. Everyone on both flights was killed.
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