I covered that base in my previous reply ... BUT - you're assuming the locale based on the statue and ignoring the principle that the S-O-L suggests ... it also appears to be a veiled woman ala 'Taliban suggested woman's dress' replete with full facial covering ...
BTW - that looks to be a departing flight from the city not a flight into the city (hence my repeated suggestion that it is EA990 remembered and NOT as the conspiracy minded around us would forever in undying repetition suggest) ...
That’s a French “Liberty” outfit if ever I saw one. That’s the Statue of Liberty in the painting. She’s holding a raised torch in her right hand, there are “rays” sticking out of her headdress, and she’s holding the book in her left arm. Your eyes must be going bad.
This is an “artist’s composite”, a montage of a crash and the NY skyline. When I worked as a magazine editor, I worked with an art director to make things like this up so we could get a lot of stuff in one drawing. This probably represents the Egypt Air crash, but the explosion and flames were probably added from the Flight 800 crash for “artistic effect”. The wing tip hitting the water reminds me of video of that crash off the coast of Africa about 5 years ago. The Statue of Liberty was merely moved so it would fit into the picture. The buildings are probably not any particular real buildings, just a mix of Manhattan-type buildings on the skyline.
I remember when I worked for the magazine, there is something in the.... I think it’s the copyright law or some other law that says that commercial artists can’t copy buildings exactly without the permission of the owner of the building. That might be part of international law too. That’s probably why the WTC towers are covered up by the low cloud. Also, that's probably why the building painted in the eyeglasses ad is a simulation of a Manhattan-type building, but it’s not a painting of a real building. It looks a little like the Empire State Building, but it’s not.
