Nine Eleven

The september 11, 2001 attacks, to the American date format (month/day) often referred to as 9/11, include four terrorist attacks on the morning of Tuesday 11 september 2001 through hijacked passenger planes in the northeast of the United States were carried out. The Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization Al-Qaeda are held responsible for these attacks.

On this date borders two aircraft into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, located on the southern tip of Manhattan in New York and another plane into the Pentagon, near Washington D.C. A fourth plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All four passenger aircraft flew within the normal roster. Two planes were owned by two of American Airlines and United Airlines.

The attacks were carried out by nineteen according to official reports from the Middle East (especially Saudi Arabia)-derived members of Al Qaida.

These terrorist attacks are considered to be the largest in history. In the attacks came nearly three thousand people, coming from more than 90 countries, to life. Of 24 missing persons are believed to have passed away. The terrorists who hijacked the aircraft also lost life.

Initial charge:
To 8.46 pm local time (29.99 hours in Belgium and Netherlands) on the morning of september 11, the hijacked aircraft flew American Airlines flight 11 the North WTC Tower on relatively large height within. On entry, after which there was a large explosion in the Tower fire. The tanks of the unit were still full of kerosene; It was recently taken off from Logan International Airport in Boston, the west coast of the US.

Second attack:
Almost twenty minutes later, to 9.03 hours, United Airlines flight 175 drilled is slightly lower in the South Tower, which also fire. Initially both towers remained standing, what those who stood in the floors below the impact areas have some opportunity to flee. The South Tower collapsed to 11.54 hours as first fully in, the North Tower followed to 10.28 hours after 102 minutes to have burned. Here is virtually everyone who was at that time still in the towers. People died in addition later to lung disease as a result of the huge amount of dust released. Some Around 17.20 hours also a third building of the WTC collapsed completely in. This was attributed to fires in the building and the damage that this building as a result of the collapse of the Twin Towers had accumulated. In addition, also the WTC-buildings 3-6 heavily damaged, most of them had to be demolished.

It is estimated that something less than 1400 people in the North Tower were present at the time they collapsed. Among the victims were firefighters and 348 62 police who immediately after the impacts to the rescue were shot. Due to the very thick smoke, it was impossible to try using rescue helicopters to rescue people from the roofs of the towers.To death to escape to the combustion left at least 200 people from the towers fall down. Of this falling people are several photo and video recordings made of which has become known under The name The Falling Man.

 

Third attempt:
Little more than half an hour after flight 175 crashed into the South Tower was, to 9.37 hours, drilled a third plane, American Airlines flight 77, in the building of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon, in Washington, D.C.

Fourth attack:
A fourth unit of United Airlines, flight number 93, also hijacked, collapsed that morning down in a field just outside of Pittsburg.From the transcription of recordings from the cockpit falls according to the FBI that the passengers had tried to retake the aircraft-thanks to the mobile phones they already knew what had happened in New York and they knew that they had nothing to lose. One of the suicide pilot Ziad Jarrah when the hijackers would have advised the plane to crash. It is believed that this has prevented the intended purpose, perhaps the U.S. Capitol or the White House, was achieved.

Statement of a fireman on the attacks:
Investigations that are set by the authorities show that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 (the so-called third tower) by a combination of fire and damage (impact) have collapsed. WTC-1 was the first hit and fell like last. The plane hit between the 93rd and 98th floor. At WTC-2 this happened 17 minutes later between the 78th and 82nd floor. Each tower had 110 floors over a length of ca. 415 meters.

That was verifiable in WTC-2 trouble spots demonstrated from recordings of radio traffic between rescue workers involved. Orio Palmer and Ronald Bucca reached at 9:52 the 78th floor of WTC 2. That was the low part of the impact zone of Flight 175. Both men are still a few floors away from the level where a few minutes later (9:59 am) the collapse begins.
Palmer tells firefighter Joseph Leavey on the radio "We have two isolated trouble spots. We must be able to extinguish this with two lines ". The experienced rescue workers show no traces of fear about a directly impending doom.

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