9/11 Compare And Contrast

At 9:12 on Flight 77, staff and passengers contacted their family and friends and air traffic control that the plane had been hijacked. Approximately at 9:36, Secret Service agents evacuate the White House employees to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. The reason they evacuated the White House is because the authorities were expecting that another hijacked plane was going to attack either the White House or the Capitol (9/11 MEMORIAL - September 11 Attack Timeline, pages 20, 22-23). At 9:37, hijackers crash Flight 77 into the Pentagon’s western facade, killing the fifty-nine on board the plane and one hundred twenty-five military and civilian personnel inside the Pentagon. This had been the third attack on the United States within fifty-one minute. To help the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) find the hijacked planes, they ground all flights over, or bound for, the continental United States. At approximately 9:59, after burning for a total of fifty-nine minutes, the South Tower collapses within ten seconds killing many rescue workers and responders (9/11 MEMORIAL - September 11 Attacks Timeline, pages 24-25,28). Around 10:15, the damaged section of the Pentagon’s outermost offices, known as the E ring, collapses. No on was injured. At 10:28, the North Tower collapses after burning for one hundred two minutes, killing about 1,400 people in the building and the surrounding area (9/11 MEMORIAL - September 11 Attack Timeline,

On September 11, 2001 four planes were hijacked by terrorists. After the hijacking, two of the airplanes were crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. The third one made impact with the West side of the Pentagon. The last airplane crashed into a field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Through the

The attacks were orchestrated by a terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda (meaning the base in english). Nineteen militants hijacked four planes and committed suicide bombings on targets. Two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade center, one crashed in a field as the passengers attempted to retake plane and the fourth crashed into the Pentagon. Nearly 3000 people were killed by these attacks and did billions of dollars in damages (History.com, 2010).

The September 11 assaults (often referred to as 9/11) involved a series of four organised terrorist assaults by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the United States on the Tuesday morning of, September 11, 2001. The assaults comprised of suicide attacks that were used to target popular U.S landmarks. This atrocity was carried out by 19 terrorists from the east coast of America, where they hijacked four airlines, which they later crashed into the twin towers in New York City. Two American airline planes: flight 11 and flight 175 crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Centre and within 2 hours collapsed also affected 10 other buildings located in the same vicinity. A third plane flew into the United States department of defence building, more commonly known as the Pentagon. Lastly the fourth plane steered towards Washington D.C, the passengers became aware about the other attacks and they tried to intervene, this caused the plane crash into a field near Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest incident for fire –fighters and law enforcement

While Millions watched very frightened because of the events in New York, American Airlines Flight 77 went around downtown Washington D.C, and slammed into the west of the Pentagon military headquarters at 9:45 am. Jet fuel from the Boeing 757 caused a devastating flame that led to a collapse of the whole building. After all of this, 125 people were killed in the Pentagon itself while 64 died inside of the airplane. (History)

On September 11, 2001 four passenger commercial jet airliners were hijacked and as a result approximately 3,000 human lives were lost. When asked about 9/11, many can recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the news that a plane crashed into one of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings and many Americans can tell you how it all unfolded and the reason behind such a travesty. The “official story” provided by officials, and restated by Sofia Shafquat, producer of “9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions” say that “four passenger planes were hijacked and taken radically off course, within an hour, two of the planes had flown into the enormous steel towers of the World Trade Center, creating fires and eventually toppling them” (Shafquat).

On September 11, 2001 at 8:45 am. a horrific event occurred. Four jets had been hijacked by an Islamic terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. They were on a suicide mission to attack the most symbolic and important united states landmarks.

As millions were watching the events unfold in New York, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over downtown Washington, D.C., and crashed into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters at 9:45 a.m. Jet fuel from the Boeing 757 caused a overwhelming firestorm that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the enormous concrete building. All told, 125 military personnel and civilians were killed in the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner. (9/11 Attacks, 2012) It was initially thought that this plane was bound for the White House or the Capitol Building; however, because of lack of visibility coming from the west as it did objects obscured these targets making the terrorists change their plans and crash into the Pentagon. (Limbacher, 2001)

The two planes that everyone mostly knows are about the planes that crashed into the twin towers and then one went into the pentagon and one no one really knows about, is one plane that went down and crash into a field in pennsylvania where the passengers took over the terrorist and crash landed in the field, those people saved a lot more lives and they people in the plane died .The crew of nineteen from the alceda needed to get to the airplanes and they needed to get into the cockpit and be able to take control of the airplane and it was supposed to go to the pentagon and the passagers save a lot more lives. . The crew easily snuck box cutter knives through the security and took control the of the passenger airplanes soon after take off. The nineteen terrorist took a flights that were meant to cross country because they had the most fuel so they made sure they would make it to the twin towers or the

On the day, September 11, 2001, those members of the Al Qaeda, known as what we call terrorists took over multiple U.S. planes. There were two of those planes that collided into the tall buildings known as the Twin Towers in New York, causing them to crumble. This incident claimed many lives in the process. Another plane being the third, was one to strike the Pentagon. There were many damages caused from this along with casualties. While there was another plane on its way for a planned attack, it was stopped abruptly by crashing into a field in Pennsylvania.

Al-Qaeda decided to do a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks. Flight 175 crashed into the

On September 11th 2001 at 8:45 am flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts crashed into the North tower and made the tower come crashing down to the ground.Thousands of people died, Hundreds of people got injurys, and some people are still sick from it today. I know one person that worked on Ground 0 doing demolition that recently passed away and it was, my cousin's father.

Unbelievably a plane was hijacked after those three crashes. We believe it was headed for the White House. The passengers had forced the plane to crash so there wouldn’t have been any more lives taken. Although the passengers knew they would die either way. People were jumping from 100 floors up. Because they didn’t want to burn to death from the fire. They would have died either way. Those who had found themselves below the crash in the tower, were in the “mouth of hell’. Ash and smoke everywhere outside of the towers. Below the tower debris was falling everywhere. The 1st plane was sensed before it was heard. Sensing danger, the dogs had lifted their heads. Those in the north tower, below the crash, rushed to the ground. 343 firefighters and 60 police officers were killed on the day of 9-11. The age range of killed victims were 2-85 years old. In Washington at the Pentagon, 184 people were killed. Around $500,000 was estimated the costs to plan the attack. To pick up 1.8 million tons of debris, it took 3.1 million hours and had cost $750 million to clean all of the debris up. Terrorist were taking flight lessons and lived in the U.S. for over a year. 19 terrorists were involved in this

Anyways, there was a fourth plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. It is suspected that the passengers fought the hijackers. The plane landed upside down and crashed at 500 MPH. They crashed at around 10:00 A.M., and think that possible targets where they were gonna land was: The White House, The U.S. capitol,

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