Final exposition

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND

THE EVENTS OF 9/11
The World Trade Center was a complex of buildings
in Lower Manhattan, New York, United States, which
included the iconic Twin Towers, inaugurated on April
4, 1973, and destroyed on September 11, 2001, when a
series of four Suicide terrorist attacks committed in
the United States on the morning of Tuesday,
September 11, by the militant Islamic terrorist group
Al Qaeda.
That morning, four commercial airliners traveling
from the north of the United States to California
were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al Qaeda terrorists.
The kidnappers were organized into three groups of
five kidnappers and a group of four. Each group had
a hijacker who had received flight training and took
over control of the aircraft. Their explicit objective
was to crash each plane into a prominent building,
causing massive casualties and partial or complete
destruction of the attacked buildings.
The first aircraft to reach its goal was American
Airlines Flight 11. It was crashed into the North Tower
of the World Trade Center complex in Lower
Manhattan in New York City at 8:46 a.m. m.
Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03 a.m. m., the South
Tower of the World Trade Center was hit by United
Airlines Flight 175. Both 110-story towers collapsed in
one hour and forty-two minutes, leading to the
collapse of the other World Trade Center structures,
including the 7 World Trade Center, and significantly
damaging the surrounding buildings.

A third flight, American Airlines Flight 77, which had

taken off from Dulles International Airport, hijacked
over Ohio, crashed at 9:37 a.m. m. against the west
side of the Pentagon (the headquarters of the US
Army) in Arlington County, Virginia, causing a partial
collapse of that side of the building. The fourth and
last plane hijacked was United Airlines Flight 93,
heading for Washington, D.C. The plane's passengers
attempted to regain control of the aircraft away
from the hijackers and eventually diverted the flight
from its intended target; crashed in a field near
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m. m.
Investigators determined that the target of Flight 93
was the White House or the United States Capitol.
The attacks resulted in 2,996 deaths, more than
25,000 injuries and substantial long-term health
consequences, in addition to at least $ 10 billion in
damage to infrastructure and property.8 9 It remains
the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of
mankind and the deadliest incident for firefighters
and law enforcement officers in United States
history.

Nicol Ventura :)