5 fact about 9/11 u should know
When people who were in New Yo
rk September 11, 2001 remember the day, they often remember as one morning with bright blue cloudless sky.
No one imagined how this would eventually fall day, as commercial aircraft would drop those clear skies and fly straight into two iconic skyscraper-filled New York workers.
A little over an hour and a half later, nearly 3,000 people were killed in four attacks that terrorists using hijacked planes launched from three different airports.
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Attacked that day by 19 hijackers were tall buildings in New York and Washington, the complex twin towers of World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
The fourth attack played in the skies of Pennsylvania as a supposed plane heading to Washington to eventually strike the Capitol or the White House hit the ground as passengers mounted an attack against the terrorists who flew.
Millions watched on television that day when, at 9:59 ET, the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed 56 minutes after United Flight 175 flew into the building. The collapse lasted 10 seconds. More than 800 workers and first responders inside the building and some outside of it were killed in the collapse.
At 10:28, the North Tower collapsed. He was struck first at 8:46 ET American Airlines 11. More than 1,600 people were killed when the building fell.
The Pentagon had been attacked by American Airlines 77 minutes just before the south tower came down, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, five minutes after the South Tower fell.
With the benefit of 19 years, we know a lot about what happened September 11, 2001, but here are some things you may not know about the attacks:
In 102 minutes in 2977 people were killed in bombings in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Of these, 343 were in New York City firefighters, 23 were in New York police officers in the city and 37 were officers in the New York Port Authority.
The age of the victims ranged from 2 years to 85 years.
Eighty-percent of the victims were men.
President George W. Bush was not in Washington when the attacks occurred. He was in Sarasota, Florida, reading to students when Andrew Card, his chief of staff, told him that a plane had hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center. A few minutes later, he whispered to Bush: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack ".
Bush was taken on a road back tortuous in Washington, where, at 21 pm ET he delivered a message to the country, saying: "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they can not touch based on America. These acts shatter steel, but they can not dent the steel of American resolve ".
Roselle, a guide dog led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 78 floors of the north tower, save them both. Roselle was under the Office Hingson when the tower was hit. Hingson credited the dog to get him out and away from the building a few minutes before its collapse.
The passengers and crew of Flight 93 and the hijackers of the plane were killed when the aircraft overturned and nose in outside Shanksville field. It is estimated that the aircraft was flying at 500 mph when it hit the ground.
It is believed that the passengers of Flight 93 engaged in a final act of democracy before the plane crashed, holding a vote to decide if they rushed the cockpit and fight with the hijackers to take control of the plane. An open phone line on the plane heard the last words of Todd Beamer as he joined the other passengers of the plane to begin the attack, saying: "The role of Let. "
Before the attack, five of the 9/11 hijackers stayed in a motel just outside the gates of the National Security Agency.
On March 30, 2002, six and a half months after the attack,
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