On September 11, 2001 at 8:46 a.m American Airlines Flight 11 was highjacked by terrorists and was flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Many people who viewd the scene thought that is was an accident or a pilot error. People watched in disbelife as people were jumping out of the building to there death instead of remaining traped and burned to death inside. All the sodun people seen another plane, United Airlines Flight 175 was flown into the south tower at 9:02 a.m. and that is when people relized that america was under attack. At 9:37 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into the Pentagon the headquarters of America’s military, peole were starting to worry that there are more planes that are being hiejacked but have not hit yet thats when people started calling there loved ones who are on a plane. In less than one and a half hours, three American landmarks had been hit and one had been narrowly avoided by people that had retook the plane and crashed it into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania instead of hitting what they belive was Washington DC. Nearly 3000 people were killed in the attacks.
I do not remember very much what i was doing on 9-11 i was only 5 but i do think i remember watching it on the news at my house and my parents were calling family and friends and telling them what was going on.
The response to the U.S was, within hours of the attack, a massive serch and rescue was launched wich had about 400 serch and rescue dogs. only a fiew people were found wounded and in the next fiew weeks they found out that there were no survivors to bo found the rescue serch took months to complete, the cleanup was not completed until May, 2002.
Al-Qaeda was the one responsible for the 9-11 attacks and his leader was Osama Bin Laden, they had 19 or there men to highjack the planes.
sources -http://en.wikipedia.org/wik/U.S.government_response_to_the_September_11_attacks
sources-http://www.wisegeek.com/what-happened-on-september-11-2001.htm
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