Roughly 2,753 people were killed on September 11, 2001, by terrorists who overtook commercial airplanes (Jones). The cause of these thousands of deaths were a series of attacks in New York City by an Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. However, there are still many questions about what actually happened the morning of September 11, 2001. As there are many different conspiracy theories about what happened that day, 9/11 was an attack which began with Al- Qaeda hi-jacking airplanes, but ended with more questions than answers. Many questions still remain about the authenticity of cell phone calls from inside the planes, why air defense was told to “stand down,” and how three buildings imploded as the result of two buildings being struck by airplanes. …show more content…
Some believe that the fuel fires, with temperatures below the melting point of construction steel (2750 °F), were capable of brutally damaging the steel framework of the Twin Towers, and then causing them to downfall. Forman Williams states, “Jet fuel burned for maybe 10 minutes, and the Twin Towers were still standing after 10 minutes. However, the rest of the stuff that burned afterwards was responsible for the sustained heat that eventually brought the Towers down” (Mvargic). Essentially, Williams is saying that the Twin Towers didn’t burn down right away, but the heat from the planes brought them down. Others claim that cellphones work at altitude and there is plenty of evidence that they do. A passenger on Delta Flight 1989 at the time says, “The pilot had radioed that there was suspicious activity in the cabin since one of the passengers was speaking urgently on his cellphone and ignored repeated flight attendant requests to stop using his cell phone while in flight” (Traveling on Delta Flight 1989 on 9/11). This quote explains how if the passenger was able to make or receive lengthy and/or repeated calls at traveling altitude, the passengers on the 9/11 airplanes should have been able to do so as well. People believe that air defense was not told to “stand down” during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Michael Meacher says, “This …show more content…
Many people believe that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were an inside job for many reasons, some being that phone calls from the planes were faked, and air defense was told to “stand down” and three buildings imploded as the result of two buildings being struck by airplanes. It’s believed that the cell phone calls were faked because it’s not possible to have very good signal on a plane and the passengers seemed very calm and quiet while talking on the phone to their loved ones. Michael Woodward states, “During the entire conversation, Sweeney's voice "remained calm and even. After reporting that her plane was flying very low, Woodward recalled, she "took a very slow, deep breath and then just said, 'Oh, my God!' Very slowly, very calmly, very quietly. It wasn't in panic” (Shoestring 9/11). Amy Sweeney was a flight attendant who had been talking to her manager Michael Woodward during the time of the terrorist attack. He describes how her voice was very calm and how she didn’t seem scared about what was going on around her at all. It is also believed that air defense was told to “stand down”. According to NORAD, “It is standard operating procedure to scramble jet fighters whenever a jetliner goes off course or radio contact with it is lost” (NORAD Stand-Down). From this perspective, it is important that help is sent out if connection with the
In this article, one of the main issues is that the tower’s structural engineer, Lee Robertson, addressed the problem of terrorism in the plans for the building, claiming he “designed it for a (Boeing) 707 to hit it”. In the center of the tower there is a central support core. This core is built of sheer concrete reinforced by 44 beams of construction grade steel, which were sealed in asbestos. When the plane hit the north tower it took a direct hit to the core, but the plane that hit the south tower went in on an angle, almost parallel to the core structure. The fuel barley grazes the core of the south tower, with most
On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced an attack that changed our country forever. It was reported by the New York magazine that 19 hijackers were responsible for the 2,996 deaths that day, leaving our country in shock. The official report stated that there was a total of 4 planes involved; Flight 11 crashed into the North tower, Flight 175 crashed into the South tower, Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon and Flight 93 was overthrown by passengers and later crashed into the ground in Pennsylvania. There is no doubt that this was one of the worst tragedies our country has ever experienced but many still question the truth behind it. From the discrepancies in the stories of the event, to the fault in the towers mechanics, it
During 9/11 a tragic event happened. Two planes were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers on a beautiful Tuesday. Everyone was surprised and shocked about what had happened on such a beautiful day in Manhattan. Now from the perspective of what was occurring inside the building, it was obvious people were unaware of what was happening. After a plane crashed into the first tower, people at the bottom floor got out of the building. In the other tower, some people were confused about what was going on. After someone came onto the intercom and told everyone in the building they were safe, and that everything was going to be fine, they told everyone on the bottom floor to go back up the building but, some others still remained
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).
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,
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
“The (WTC) collapse appeared to be similar to a controlled demolition” (Thomas, 07/08/2011). Many speculated that the towers were in fact blown down with explosives placed in selected locations. Some witnesses accounted hearing explosions inside the building as they attempted to escape the building. Many architects and scientists maintain that jet fuel cannot produce enough heat to melt the steel frame of the two buildings. There were no planes to hit building 7 of the trade center, but it was demolished in the same fashion as the twin towers were.
The morning of September 11th, 2001 began like any other day for most Americans. All across the country, millions prepared for their commute to school or work, while aboard four doomed airliners, hundreds of passengers huddled in fear of nineteen now infamous hijackers. By the end of the day, thousands would be dead or missing and a country would be left reeling by the worst terror attack in world history. 9/11 is perhaps the most significant cultural and political event in the history of the United States of America, and anyone who was alive that day and old enough to remember the events as they took place can tell you about the utterly unique combination of fear, shock, and rage felt by every American as they watched two of the largest buildings in the world, symbols of New York City as recognizable as the Statue of Liberty itself, crumble into a heap of rumble on the streets of Manhattan. Yet, like with many events in human history that are almost too large or devastating to comprehend, it didn’t take long for some people to begin trying to make sense of what occurred by theorizing about government complacency or complicity in the attacks. These theories, often supported mostly by photos and video footage that is put forth as inconsistent with the official story, usually revolve around claims that the destruction wrought by the hijackers could not have been accomplished through plane crashes like the ones that occurred on 9/11. While sometimes compelling, these claims of
At first we were shocked from such a scare, then we were sad, and lastly we felt anger on September 11th, 2001. The event on that took place on September 11th, 2001 were planes getting hijacked by passengers on the plane and they crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City. All of the circuits were busy; all you could hear through the cell phones were operators saying please try again at a later time. The American Airlines flight 11 moments earlier crashed into the North Tower. Then at 9:05am, twenty minutes after the first crash, United Airlines flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. The news stations repeatedly exhibited the buildings that plunged to the ground. In regards to figure out how anyone could ever do this terrible crime I will explain the
In the text Enough Conspiracy Theories, Already by Matthew Rothschild he writes “But we know from cell phone conversations that passengers on board that plan on confronting the hijackers. And, as 9/11 Debunking The Myths notes ‘“a Cleveland air traffic controller assigned to Flight 93 heard signs of a struggle in the cockpit, followed shortly by screaming”’(9/11 Debunking The Myths 44). As the author uses this quote, it shoots down the idea of September 11th being a government by proving that the airplanes were taken over by the Al Qaeda terrorist group and not just an inside job. I agree with what the author is arguing by showing proof of the terrorist attack and how the people on the airplane stood up for themselves and took the airplane back over.
On September 11, 2001, 19 people hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against their targets.. Two of the planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 police officers and firefighters. (“9/11 attacks”2010). The conspiracy theories started just days after the September 11, 2001 attack. The conspiracies were easy to spread fast when using the internet and they became more and more elaborate as time went on. The most popular 9/11 conspiracy theory is that 9/11 was orchestrated by the American government.
Also if one takes a look at the video footage of the World Trade Center’s collapsing, one can clearly see several levels down a perfect explosion coming out level by level by level. The explosions are so precise that there is no possible way that they could’ve occurred by the collapsing itself. These explosions were caused by bombs that were placed inside the World Trade Center days before September 11th. An unexplained fire drill evacuation can prove that claim because why would everyone be ordered to evacuate the building days before September 11th? Maybe they were preparing for something in the event of an emergency (Hoffman, 2005). Actor Charlie Sheen says in an interview with Texas radio host Alex Jones (2006), "Call me insane, but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition?" (¶ 3).
What if everything one was supposed to believe was wrong? What if the people who are supposed to protect citizens from danger, do not? What if 9/11, the most tragic day in American history, was caused by the people we are supposed to respect and we are supposed and to believe, our government? Could our government have masterminded this horrific crime? Actually, I believe they did. In August 1997, on the front cover of FEMA’s, The Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Response to Terrorism Manual it shows the World Trade Center towers in the cross hairs, sights used for aiming a gun or missile for accuracy, and then again in June 2000, the Department of Justice released a world
The 9/11 Phone Call WARNING – READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED FOR THE FOLLOWING IS BASED ON TRUE EVENTS. 9/11, the four word combination everyone dreads. Many people had died, during this event... which just adds to the tragedy. In this story, you will read a 911 cal from fictional characters. However, at the bottom of this story, the shortened 911 call is there for you too read. You may begin... The plane just crashed, a girl from the north tower calls... 911- This is 911, what is your emergency? Melissa Harper – Hello? Please, please help us! W-we are stuck! 911- Where are you? Melissa Harper – We are in the twin towers- yelps – I-I 'm scared! The girl starts to cry... 911- Alright what is your name? Melissa Harper – Melissa! M-Melissa Harper! 911- You will be ok... what is the phone number you are calling from? Melissa Harper – 441... 911- ok... Melissa Harper – 2623...
September 11, 2001, millions of New Yorkers and American citizens woke up and started their day, unprepared and unaware for the catastrophic attack that would be taking place in just a few short hours. At 8:46 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. The impact killed all of the passengers and crew as well as hundreds inside the building. At 9:03 a.m., a second plane, Flight 175, crashed into the corner of the South Tower killing passenger, crew, and workers who worked on floors seventy-five to eighty-three. Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. killing approximately 185 individuals (History.com Staff). Because of the damaged to the support system, fires, and impact at extremely fast speed, the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. (Lipton and Glanz). Having heard about the acts of terrorism that had just taken place in New York and Washington, D.C., a group of passengers drove their plane, Flight 93, into a Pennsylvania field killing everyone on board but possibly saving hundreds of other lives in the process. The North Tower collapsed at 10:28 a.m. 102 minutes after being struck (History.com Staff). On September 11, 2001, almost twelve hundred people were wounded or killed by “coordinated suicide attempts” by Al Qaeda terrorists. In result to the four airplanes being hijacked and used for premediated reasons, the United States government instituted new regulations for entering the country and airport security as well as expounded on systems already in place.