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September 11, 2001

New York – Arlington – Shanksville

New York City

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• In the early morning hours of September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked.

• 8:46 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 11 was the first to crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

• Approximately seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.

Images from World Trade Center Building Performance Study conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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New York City• The second crash was

captured on live television.• Structural damage to both

the North and South Towers caused them to collapse.

• The South Tower collapsed first at 9:59 a.m.

• The North Tower collapsed 29 minutes later.

• Nearly 3,000 were killed including:– 343 Firefighters– 23 Police Officers– 37 Port Authority Police Officers– A bomb-sniffing dog named

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Arlington, Virginia

• 9:37 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

• The western side of the building was engulfed in flames.

• Part of the building collapsed.

• 189 people were killed:– 64 aboard Flight77

– 125 inside the Pentagon building.

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Shanksville, Pennsylvania

On September 11, 2010, Former First Lady Laura Bush and First Lady Michele Obama visited the site of United Airlines Flight 93

airplane crash.

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• The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was expected to head toward the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

• Passengers in that plane, however, prevented that from happening.

• Unfortunately, at 10:03 A.M., the plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone onboard.

Rescue and Recovery Efforts

• It took months to complete the rescue and recovery efforts.

• Some survivors were found and rescued from under the rubble, but not many.

• The fires beneath the rubble burned for weeks, and the cleanup was not fully complete until May 2002.

• Relief funds were established to help the victims and victims’ families.

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Lives Lost

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• In all, 2,996 people died that day, including the 19 hijackers.– The youngest victim was a 2-year-

old girl on U.A. Flight175.

– The oldest victim was an 82-year-old man on A.A. Flight 11.

– To date, the remains of only 1,629 victims have been identified.

• More than 6,000 people were injured.

• It was the largest attack on United States soil since Pearl Harbor.

Lives Lost

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Broader Effects• Beyond those who lost their

lives on September 11, many thousands more were directly affected: – It is estimated that about 3,000

children lost a parent and more than 1,600 people lost a spouse.

– 20% of Americans knew someone who was either hurt or killed that day.

– Nearly 150,000 jobs were lost in New York City alone as a result of the attacks.

– 1 year later, 7 in 10 Americans reported they had experienced depression since the attacks.

Twin boys hold a photograph of their father, who was killed in the September 11th attacks.

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Further Research• National Archives: 9/11 Commission Records

– http://www.archives.gov/research/9-11/

• The September 11 Digital Archive– http://911digitalarchive.org/index.php

• The National Security Archive– http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/sept11/

• Library of Congress: Collection of Photographs– http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=September%2011

• National September 11 Memorial & Museum– http://www.911memorial.org/?gclid=CK_Dx8-56qoCFeqB5godQTisQw

• One Year Later: Facts and Figures from USA Today– http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2002-09-10-for-the-record_x.htm

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