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Tuesday Morning On September 11Th, 2001 There Were A Series

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Tuesday morning on September 11th, 2001 there were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States. The attack had killed 2,996 innocent people injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least ten billion in property and infrastructure damage and three trillion in total cost. Nineteen al-Qaeda terrorist had stole four passenger airliners operated by U.S. passenger air carriers. Two of the planes were crashed into the north and south towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center in New York City. Within an hour and fourty-five minutes the twin towers the stood 110 feet high had already collapsed. The third plane was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia leading …show more content…

Almost 10,000 others were treated for injuries, many severe. Meanwhile, a fourth California-bound plane United Flight 93, was hijacked about 40 minutes after leaving NEwark International Airport in New Jersey. Because the plane had been delayed in taking off, passengers on board learned of events in New York and Washington via cell phone and Airfone calls to the ground. Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett Jr., told his wife over the phone that “I know we’re all going to die. There’s three of us who are going to do something about it. I love you, honey.” Another passenger, Todd Beamer, was heard saying “Are you guys ready? LEt’s roll” over an open line. Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water. Her last words to him were “Everyone’s running to first class. I’ve got to go. Bye.” The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher. The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of 500 miles per hour, crashing in a rural field in western Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m. All 45 people aboard were killed. Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House, the U.S.

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