Howard Lutnick, Larry Silverstein, Jim Pierce and Mitt Romney all had last-minute changes of plan that kept them out of the WTC on 9/11 | Fortune

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Fortune reports that several prominent figures had last-minute changes of plans that kept them away from the World Trade Center. The article revisits the hijacking of four commercial planes—two striking the North and South Tower, one hitting the Pentagon, and the last crashing in Shanksville, Pennsylvania—leaving nearly 3,000 dead. It focuses on accounts from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, then CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, who usually arrived at his desk by 6 a.m. but had his wife take their son to school instead. It describes similar “near misses” for Larry Silverstein, who signed a 99-year lease on the towers, and Jim Pierce of Aon, whose meeting was moved at the last moment, leaving some attendees uninformed.