Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett, Jr. I love you, honey. Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water. The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher.
The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of miles per hour, crashing in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at a. All 44 people aboard were killed. Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House , the U. Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard.
Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D. At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building.
On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U. Within two months, U. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U. In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. The heat of summer was fading and the weather was cooling amid the first signs of approaching autumn.
The sky was clear blue. American Airlines Flight 77 carrying 64 people including five al-Qaeda hijackers crashed into the west side of the Pentagon at in the morning. Two other hijacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and a fourth fell in a field in Pennsylvania.
Wills, age 40 at the time, was blown across the room to the floor by the blast. She guided others out, crawling along the floor through smoke and searing heat to a window, their clothes melting to their bodies, smoke choking their lungs. Some made it out of the chaos and smoke and burning jet fuel, some did not. Twenty-nine people inside the Pentagon were killed that day.
The committees also found the Mar-a-Lago members exerted dominance over White House staff who were tasked with implementing While the involvement of Saudi and Israeli fighters in the same mission is significant, that development does not necessarily Volcanic activity beneath Iwo Jima, site of a defining World War II battle, is pushing sunken naval vessels to the surface.
A new hotline and a more comprehensive, comparative claims processing system are among the efforts to assist Gulf War and A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, including the th person to reach space in 60 years. American Military History. All rights reserved. That section of the report follows. At a. Though dozens of witnesses saw a Boeing hit the building, conspiracy advocates insist there is evidence that a missile or a different type of plane smashed into the Pentagon.
CLAIM: Two holes were visible in the Pentagon immediately after the attack: a foot-wide entry hole in the building's exterior wall, and a foot-wide hole in Ring C, the Pentagon's middle ring. Conspiracy theorists claim both holes are far too small to have been made by a Boeing The truth is of even less importance to French author Thierry Meyssan, whose baseless assertions are fodder for even mainstream European and Middle Eastern media.
In his book The Big Lie, Meyssan concludes that the Pentagon was struck by a satellite-guided missile—part of an elaborate U. The exterior facade collapsed about 20 minutes after impact, but ASCE based its measurements of the original hole on the number of first-floor support columns that were destroyed or damaged.
Computer simulations confirmed the findings.
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