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File:American Airlines Flight 11 approach (third frame).jpg

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English: The third of three frames captured by an automated camera set up in Brooklyn that captured the approach and crash of American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. In this frame, the smoke following the immediate explosion after the impact of Flight 11 can be seen expanding out of the tower, and beginning to move towards the south
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Source https://www.thing.net/~humbot/staehle/jpgs/untitled/
Author Wolfgang Staehle

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This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information produced by an automated system, such as a fixed CCTV or traffic enforcement camera, without human input; it is common property and contains no original authorship under the laws of its country of origin. Most jurisdictions do not have clear legal precedent on the copyright status of such works, see Threshold of originality § Pre-positioned recording devices for more information.
Copyright status of body camera and dashcam footage by US federal and state agencies
  • Footage recorded by US state agencies of California, Florida or Massachusetts should use {{PD-CAGov}}, {{PD-FLGov}} or {{PD-MAGov}} instead.
  • Footage recorded by US agencies of the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands are for the purpose of copyright considered federal works and should either use {{PD-DCGov}} (District of Columbia), {{PD-USGov}} (Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands), {{PD-PRGov}} (Puerto Rico) or {{PD-American Samoa}} (American Samoa) instead
  • Footage recorded by US agencies of the United States Minor Outlying Islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Swains Island and Navassa Island) are for the purpose of copyright considered federal works and should use {{PD-USGov}}
  • Footage recorded by US federal agencies should use {{PD-USGov-DOJ}}, {{PD-USGov-DEA}}, {{PD-USGov-FBI}}, {{PD-USGov-DHS}}, {{PD-USGov-DHS-CBP}} or {{PD-USGov-DHS-ICE}} instead
  • Please note that not all federal law enforcement agencies mandates the use of bodycams while others only use them sparingly or inconsistently

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11 September 2001

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