9/11-A date that everyone remembers
What actually happened during sept.11/2001?
September 11 Attacks was a coordinated terrorist strike on the United States in 2001 that killed about 3,000 people and reminded the world of the rage of terrorists.
The morning of September 11 (2001), 19 terrorists, working in teams of 4 or 5, hijacked four commercial airliners to use them as potential weapons for creating mass destruction. Two of the planes, loaded with fuel and passengers, were flown at full speed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the financial district of New York City. The buildings burst into flame and then collapsed, killing thousands.
A third terrorist crew smashed their plane into the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. military in Virginia. The hijackers of the fourth airliner apparently intended to hit another target in the Washington, D.C., but the airplane crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
The targets that were destroyed, symbolized U.S. financial, political, and military power. Years in the planning, the attacks in New York and Washington constituted the first major foreign assault on the continental United States since 1814(when the British army invaded Washington, D.C., and burned the White House).
The incidents in detail:
There were four planes hijacked that day.The first two planes, American Airlines and United Airlines, left Boston within minutes of each other, around 8 am.
The first indication of trouble came at about 8:25 am, when air traffic controllers in Boston heard a strange voice from the Flight (American airlines) cockpit saying,
“We have some planes. Just stay quiet, and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport.”
A few minutes later the plane turned ,heading toward New York City. The American Flight crashed into the World Trade Center north tower at 8:46 am, hitting the 110-story building,between the 93rd and 99th floors.
The hijackers of United Flight followed a similar route, they slammed their airplane into the second World Trade Center, also 110 stories tall, between the 77th and 85th floors 16 minutes later, at 9:03 am.
But that was not all,there were two other flights that were hijacked.Another American Airlines ,that took off from Washington Airport about 8:20 am ,about 40 minutes later, the hijackers turned the flight around and flew it back toward Washington, D.C.
Flying low and fast, the airplane hit the Pentagon at 9:37 am. The plane penetrated three of the Pentagon’s five concentric rings, taking a chunk out of the building and the people who worked in them. In all, 184 people died at the Pentagon, including everyone aboard the plane.
The fourth flight-United Airlines Flight 93, took off from Newark, New Jersey, at about 8:40 am, was also turned towards Washinton,D.C. but sources say that the passengers of that flight retaliated and the plane crashed,it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, at about 10:03 am.
It is said that a passenger told a telephone operator of the plan. After asking the operator to pray with him, the passenger set down the phone. The operator heard him say, “Are you ready?” Then, “OK, let’s roll.” The phrase “Let’s roll” became a famous phrase used in rallies on anti-terrorism.
Many died that day either caught up in the tragedy or trying to save the lives of others.There were officers,bussiness men,childern,fire fighters and rescue teams that were killed in the tragic incidents,but it passed on a strong message to people that at the time of crisis,we must stand united.
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