American Airlines Boeing 767 with 20 000 gallons of fuel crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. The impact left a gaping hole, burning 110 stories on the 80th floor of the skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and hundreds of overpopulation on the floors above and much more. How started the evacuation of the tower and the twin acoustic, live television images cameras which at first seemed to be a terrible accident. Minutes, then 18, who struck him the first plane, a second Boeing 767 - appeared flight United Airlines 175 - in the sky, turned abruptly at the World Trade Center and the slices cut in the South Tower almost on the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion, which filled the debris in flames on the surrounding buildings and the street below. America has been attacked.
The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries. Would have been financed by the terrorist organization of the Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida, they exchanged its participation in the Gulf war and the military presence in the Middle East in retaliation for the support of the United States, after Israel continues. Some of the terrorists had for more than a year in the United States had lived and American commercial flight accepted schools of flying hours. Others had slipped into the country in the months before September 11 and served as "Muscle" in the operation. Easily in smuggling sound box and knife through the security check at the three airports in the page is the 19 terrorists and on Board selected four flights in California, because the fuel for transcontinental journeys were long charge. Shortly after the start, the terrorists seized four planes and orders taken ordinary suburban or as missiles guided to transform the course of water.
That millions have watched the events in New York, the flight of American Airlines 77 vertebrae through downtown Washington, D.C. and slammed at in the West side of the staff of the Pentagon at 9:45 the Boeing 757 Jet a devastating fire, which because of the structural elements of the building giant concrete collapse leads. A total 125 soldiers and civilians killed in the Pentagon, as well as all the 64 people aboard the airliner.
Less than 15 minutes after the nerve center of the United States military, the terrorists hit took the horror in New York, a disastrous turn for the worse as the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed in a huge cloud of dust and smoke. The skyscraper's steel construction, built more than 200 miles / hour and a big fire in a conventional way, resist winds did not resist, the huge heat by burning kerosene produced. At 10:30, which crossed Trade Center Tower. Almost 3,000 people died in the World Trade Center and its surroundings, including a huge allied health and 343 firefighters, 23 were New York City police officers and 37 policemen from port seeking evacuation of the building and save office included in the upper floors. Survived only six people in the towers of the World Trade Center at the time of its collapse. Almost 10,000 more were treated for numerous serious injuries.
