You know what young traders in their 20s and 30s are like - they think they’re invincible because they’re making a lot of money.” “Some literally had to be pulled out of their chairs. The company security started ushering traders out, much to their dismay. She told him: “I think a small plane just hit your building. He got a call on his Motorola flip phone from his wife who worked near the towers. But I looked around and people were still trading,” he said. “The first thing I saw was debris falling by the glass window and the floor was shaking. Goubert remembers it as “a normal trading day” before the tragedy was displayed on televisions across the world. That basically explains why I’m talking to you,” he told ThePrint. A ‘normal trading day’ now seared in memoryīrokerage firm TP ICAP, which 54-year-old Goubert has been working for since 1996 with a specialisation in interest rate swaps, lost one employee in the attacks - a woman attending a conference on a top floor - out of 800-odd brokers, traders, and support staff. Today, 19 years after the attack that shook not just Manhattan but the world, the annual tradition of reading out names of nearly 3,000 who perished at Ground Zero may not take place due to Covid-19 concerns but the much-cherished ‘Tribute in Light’ installation will be continue. The attacks were part of a larger coordinated one by Islamist terrorist group Al Qaeda. Two planes crashed into the 110-storey towers - symbols of American economic power - while a third plane hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Goubert worked in the North Tower when it was hit by two hijacked planes on Tuesday, 11 September 2001.
It had offices on the 25th and 26th floors the North Tower, and the 55th floor the South Tower of the World Trade Center. New Delhi: People jumping from the World Trade Center to their deaths is one of the most horrifyingly enduring images from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but for one survivor, it is the sound of the bodies smashing against the ground that remains in his memory.Įdouard Pierre Goubert, a French-American with roots in Pondicherry (now Puducherry), works as an interest rates broker with brokerage firm TP ICAP.
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