Her office was on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center’s south tower.
When the first plane hit, she was on the concourse and about to get on the elevator.
“New York is such a noisy city, I didn’t immediately think terrorist attack or airplane”, said Botkin, “I just sort of paused and looked around. In a few moments I started to see distinguished-looking men in suits starts running and yelling, and thought, okay, something is happening”.
Those with Sara in the lobby were instructed by building security that it was safer for them to go up to their offices.
Her job was at Aon Corporation.
The insurance brokerage company lost 176 lives that morning.
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