Edna Cintron (14 October, 1954 – September 11, 2001) was an American businesswoman in the financial industry and victim of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. She served as a billing administrative assistant at Marsh McLennan. Cintron is known for allegedly being the "waving woman" seen in the North Tower's impact zone. Personal life Cintron was brought to New York City by her mother when she was about five years old. Her family lived in lower Manhattan, on Delancey Street, in a neighbourhood famous for waves of ethnic immigration. Cintron and William met in 1987. Cintron and her husband lived in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York. Cintron first worked at Manhattan's southern tip, first in the World Financial Centre, and in 1999 took a job in the World Trade Centre with the computer support section of Marsh, a large insurance broker, where she was the billing administrator's assistant. September 11 attacks Cintron was an administrative assistant of claims for Marsh McLennan. At the time of the attacks, Cintron was located on the 97th floor of the North Tower. Struck by American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:46 a.m., the North Tower was the first of the Twin Towers to be hit by a hijacked aircraft, and the second to collapse, at 10:28 a.m. When the first plane hit, its primary impact was on the 93rd to 100th floors, destroying any escape route and trapping all occupants above the 92nd floor. It was initially believed that everyone on those floors had died from the collision, however several videos and photographs of the impact zone left by the plane show a woman alive inside, commonly identified as Cintron. In these images it appears the woman is of slim build and has long blonde hair, features matching Cintron's physical appearance. Whilst the identity of the subject of the photographs has never been officially confirmed, her husband William Cintron tentatively identified her as the woman who stood at the edge of the impact hole waving in hope of being rescued. The large number of people trapped in the tower has made official identification difficult. Cintron can be seen waving from the impact zone of the North Tower, shortly after impact at 8:56 a.m. Another unidentified shirtless man to her left can also be seen waving. Temperatures reached close to 1000 °C according to official NIST reports, and Cintron appears on the edge