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Getty Images. By Patrick Jackson. BBC News. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 suicide attackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. The ...
8:50 – 8:54 (approx.): Flight 77 is hijacked above southern Ohio, turning to the southeast. The transponder is turned off by hijacker-pilot Hani Hanjour. 9:03:02: Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85.
September 14 to September 21: Worldwide stock markets plummet. Further information: World economic effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks. September 15: CIA director George Tenet presents the Worldwide Attack Matrix. September 20: George W. Bush announces that the US is at war.
Planning of the September 11 attacks. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, intentionally crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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The hijackers have been split into four teams which correspond to the four aircraft that they will board. Each team has a trained pilot-hijacker who will commandeer each flight, plus three or four ‘muscle hijackers’ who are trained to subdue the pilots, passengers, and crew. Each team is also assigned to crash into a different target.
The first group of hijackers – Mohammad Atta, Wail al-Shehri, Satam al-Sugami, Abdulaziz al-Omari, and Walled al-Shehri – successfully pass through security. Mohammad Atta is the ringleader of the whole operation. It is believed that they carry knives and boxcutters onto the plane with them. They board a flight to Boston, which connects them to Ame...
American Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston. Hijackers on board are Mohammad Atta, Wail al-Shehri, Satam al-Sugami, Abdulaziz al-Omari, and Waleed al-Shehri. It has 92 people on board (excluding the hijackers) and is headed for Los Angeles.
United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston. Hijackers on board are Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, Hamza al-Ghamdi, and Ahmed al-Ghamdi. It has 65 people on board and is also headed for Los Angeles.
Flight 11 crew alert ground personnel that the plane has been hijacked. Daniel Lewin, a passenger on the plane, is the first casualty of the whole attack as he is stabbed, probably trying to stop the hijackers. The FBI are alerted.
American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. Hijackers on board are Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Salem al-Hazmi. It has 64 people aboard.
Attempting to communicate with passengers, a hijacker from Flight 11 contacts air traffic control, which alerts them to the attacks.
Air traffic control in Boston alert the Military. Jets in Massachusetts are mobilised to follow Flight 11.
United Airlines Flight 93 takes off at Newark. It was meant to have departed at 8am, at around the same time as the other flights. Hijackers on board are Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Saeed al-Ghamdi. It has 44 people aboard.
Mohammed Atta and the other hijackers aboard Flight 11 crash the plane into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building. Until 9/11, security had only considered that an attacker might use a plane as a bargaining chip in order to get money or redirect it to another route. The...
Sep 11, 2001 · 9:37:46 AM. September 11 attacks: Pentagon Fire and smoke billowing from the Pentagon after hijackers crashed American Airlines flight 77 into the building during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Arlington, Virginia. Flight 77 hits the Pentagon in Virginia with the throttle set to maximum power.
Jun 21, 2011 · 9/11 Timeline. On September 11, 2001 —a clear, sunny, late summer day—al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade ...
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