Posted by 3Michyla on September 21, 2009 at 9:38pm
On September 11, 2001 a hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and causing it to begin to burn down. It was 8:45 am. Only 18 minutes later another hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explode and causes both of the buildings to burn.
After all that happened the New York airlines, bridges, and tunnels were shut down. Forty five minutes after the attack President Bush announced that there was a terrorist attack. For the first time in U.S. airline history was halted.Almost an hour later of the first attack American Flight 77 crashes into the pentagon and caused a huge plunge of smoke. Two minutes later the white house was evacuated. Bush was then departed from Florida.
United Airlines Flight 93 was also hijacked and crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. By 10:45 that day all federal buildings in Washington were evacuated. By 1:27 p.m. a state of emergency was declared by Washington.
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