There were 4 commercial passenger ailine jets that were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001. The hijacked flights were American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 93. The hijackers selected planes with long flights because they would be heavily fueled. At 8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower between floors 93-99 by 5 hijackers. Another 5 hijackers took control of Untied Airlines Flight 175 and crashed it into floors 77-85 of the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. At 9:12 a.m. Flight attendent Renee May calls her mom and tells her that American Airlines Flight 77 has been hijacked. At 9:37 a.m. 5 hijackers flew Flight 77 into the Pentagons western facade. The 59 people on board were killed along with the 125 military and civillian personnel inside the building. A fouth flight United Airlines Flight 93 was taken under control by 4 hijackers at 9:57 a.m. 13 of the 40 passengers were able to get in touch with loved ones and authorities. They told them about the planes hijacking and learned about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The passengers on Flight 93 we believe voted to mount a counterattack on the hijackers. At 10:03 a.m. the passengers on Flight 93 attacked the hijackers to try and retake control of the plane. The hijackers deliberately crashed the plane in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvannia, to prevent the passergers from regaining control of the plane. Flight 93's target was believed to be either the Capitol or the White House. The forty passengers on board died. There were a total of 2,996 deaths, 19 hijackers and 2,977 victims. There were a total of 246 victims on the four planes, 2,606 in New York City in the towers and on the ground and 125 at the Pentagon.
At 8:30 p.m. President Bush address the nation and states: Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts," "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve," and "The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts...we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." At 9:00 p.m.President Bush and his advisers had evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks. "al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan are essentially one and the same." says CIA Director Tenet and Bush says, " Tell the Taliban we're finished with them." We responed to the attacks by launching the War on Terror, and invading Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban who harbored al-Qaeda members. We started to rebuild and clean up the destruction.
What I remember from the day 9/11 happened was school had just started and I was in kindergarden. The teachers had started to freak out and everyone was sent to the gym. We stayed there for the rest of the day to pray for the families affected and they brought out a projector to project what was happening for us to see on the wall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://timeline.national911memorial.org/#/Explore/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks
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