The mall included eateries as well as approximately 80 stores , including Duane Reade , Gap , Sam Goody , Victoria 's Secret , and the Warner Bros . Studio Store . Thousands of people traveled through the mall daily . A commonly reported story of eyewitnesses inside the mall at 8:46 a.m. EDT , when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower , is of fireballs fed by flaming jet fuel shooting down the elevator shafts and bursting out of the elevators inside the lobby , with many of the fireballs reaching as far as the mall itself
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11
Westfield World Trade Center