Marcy Borders was working on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower when the first plane hit.
Marcy Borders, a survivor of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks who was photographed covered in dust after fleeing the World Trade Center, has died of stomach cancer.
Borders’ family announced her death Tuesday on Facebook. She was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year at the age of 41.
The photo of Borders, taken by AFP photographer Stan Honda as the attacks on the Twin Towers unfolded, has endured as a haunting reminder of the chaos and horror of Sept. 11.
Borders, who was 28 at the time of the attacks, was working on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower when the first plane hit. She fled down the stairwell and emerged from the building as the South Tower fell, covering her in dust and debris.
“I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face,” she told the New York Post in 2011. “The world went silent.”
Borders told the Post a stranger pulled her to safety in a nearby building, where Honda took the now-famous photo. According to the Telegraph, Borders kept the clothes she was wearing — still covered in ash — in a plastic bag in her wardrobe, but as of 2011 had never looked at them.
In the decade following Sept. 11, Borders grappled with depression and substance abuse. She checked into a rehabilitation center in 2011.
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