9/11

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 The three terrorist attacks in America on September 9th, 2001 caused almost 3,500 deaths in total and several more injured, Their were 4 hijacked planes two planes directed towards the twin towers of the world trade center, a third towards the pentagon and the fourth to a random field.


World trade center 

At 8:45 on a clear Tuesday morning an American Airlines Boeing 767 packed with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the worlds trade center leaving a gaping burning hole near the 80th floor in the 110 story skyscraper 18 minutes later a second Boeing 767 united Airlines flight 175 crashed into the south tower near floor 60 causing an explosion so massive it caused debris to fly out on to the streets and neighboring buildings, and injuring nearby bystanders, less than 15 minutes after a plane crashed into the pentagon the south tower collapsed in a massive cloud of dust and smoke and at 10:30 am the north tower collapsed and only 6 people survived from both towers.




Pentagon attack

Millions of people were watching the events in New York unfold already horrified and shaken up by it when suddenly a third American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the west side of the pentagon military headquarters at 9:45 am packed with enough jet fuel that it caused a devastating inferno causing a massive structural collapse causing 125 military personnel and civilians and 64 passenger on the plane to die causing a total of 189 losses.



Flight 93

40 minutes after departure from Newark liberty international airport in New Jersey, Because the plane was late for take-off the passengers new of the events that happened in both New York and Washington D.C and when the hijackers finally revealed themselves and promised them a safe return  they new that it was a lie, but the passengers planned an insurrection against the hijackers

 A passenger, Thomas Burnett Jr told his wife over the phone "I know were 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? lets roll."

    The passengers fought the four hijackers causing the plane to flip over and aim towards the ground at an upwards speed of 500 miles per hour, crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:10 am all 44 people on board died

Luckily it did not reach its intended target likely saving more people, But there are a lot of theories on to were the original target was:

The white house

The camp David

One of several nuclear power plants





Osama Bin Ladin

Osama Bin Ladin is the leader of the Islamist extremist group Al Qaeda a combination of people from several different Arab countries and he funded the hijackers that caused so much destruction and the reason for this was they were angry and acted in retaliation to Americas support of Israel, its involvement in the Persian Gulf war and its continued military presence in the Middle East, some of the hijackers had been living in America for awhile taking flight lessons and some snuck in to the country months before.



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