Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Euronews
Euronews
Jesús Maturana

'The Survivor': Inside the story of a Spanish woman who posed as a 9/11 victim

Tania Head was, according to her own account, one of 18 people who survived on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, the area located above the point where the second plane struck on 11 September 2001.

She said that a dying man handed her his wedding ring so she could return it to his widow, that a volunteer with his clothes on fire helped her down the stairs, and that she lost her fiancé, David, in the North Tower. On the strength of that story, shewent on to chair the World Trade Center Survivors' Associationand to meet Rudy Giuliani, then mayor of New York.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.