9/11 was a normal day in New York City, But in the morning on September, 11 2001 two planes hit the twin towers.
Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to California (three of them headed to LAX in Los Angeles and one to San Francisco) after takeoffs this is how it Unfolded
9/11 How it Unfolded
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American Airline flight 11 takes off from Boston to LA but then suddenly turns towards New York and is flown into the northern tower. At first, it appears to be a plane crash, not terrorism.
- 9:03 a.m. ET - United Airlines Flight 175 (traveling from Boston to Los Angeles) strikes the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. At this point, it is an obvious terror attack. Many people are trapped above the crash site and cannot escape the burning building.
- 9:37 a.m. ET - American Airlines Flight 77 (traveling from Dulles, Virginia, to Los Angeles) strikes the Pentagon Building in Washington.
- 9:59 a.m. ET - South Tower of WTC collapses in approximately 10 seconds.
- 10:03 a.m. ET - United Airlines Flight 93 (traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco) crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- 10:28 a.m. ET - North Tower of WTC collapses. The time between the first attack and the collapse of both World Trade Center Towers is 102 minutes.
December 13, 2001 - The US government releases a tape in which Osama bin Laden takes responsibility for the attacks.
December 18, 2001 - Congress approves a measure to allow the president to designate
September 11 as "Patriot Day" on each anniversary of the attacks.
May 30, 2002 - Cleanup at Ground Zero officially ends.
It took 3.1 million hours of labor to clean up 1.8 million tons of debris.
The total cost of cleanup was $750 million.
July 19, 2007 - The New York Medical Examiner's Office announces that the remains of three more people are positively identified. 1,133 victims, 41% of the total, remain unidentified.
Between all four incidents, 2996 people were killed on that day.
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