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 September 11th, 2001 –
Overview
• September 11th, 2001: 19 extremist al-Qaeda
terrorists hijacked four passenger airplanes
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Overview
• Two planes were flown into the World Trade
Center in New York City
• One hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
• Another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
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2001
• At 8:46 am,
American Airlines
Flight 11 struck the
North Tower of the
World Trade Center
• At first, many people
believed it was an
accident
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• The New York Police

Department and New
York Fire Department
responded
immediately
• The Port Authority
Police began to
evacuate the North
Tower
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• Four minutes after the

plane struck the North
Tower, President Bush was
notified
• While reading to an
elementary school class in
Florida, he was informed of
the second plane hitting
President Bush being notified of the second
plane hitting the World Trade Center
the World Trade Center
• At 9:02 am, the South
Tower started to be
evacuated
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• 9:03 am, United Airlines

Flight 175 crashes into
the South Tower
• At this point, people
realize that these were
not accidents
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• 9:31 am, President

Bush calls the events
in New York City an
apparent terrorist
attack
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• 9:37 am, American

Airlines Flight 77
crashes into the
Pentagon (the
headquarters of the
United States
Department of
Defense)
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• 9:42 am, for the first time in history, all flights

over or heading to the United States are
grounded

A radar view of U.S. airspace on September 11th, 2001,

before all flights were grounded