Did you know that on September 11, 2001 four passenger planes were hijacked by terrorists? This event is very significant to me for the following reasons, First, it was a very unexpected attack towards the U.S. Second, it killed approximately about 3,000 people. Lastly, it affected a variety amount of people mentally & emotionally. This attack was viewed by millions of people on live television. The attack was labeled "the most lethal terrorism in human experience."
The September 11, 2001 event happened at about 8:30 am were about 19 terrorist from the Taliban an al-Qaeda Islamic group, hijacked two American Airlines Boeing 767 flights 11 and flight 175 and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City. In Washington, at about 9:45am, hijackers crashed a Boeing 757 Jet into the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia killing about 125 military personnel and civilians. At about 10:10 AM hijackers tried to hijack United Airlines flight 93 leaving the Newark International Airport bound to California, but unsuccessful because the passengers fought the hijacker’s, and the plane crashed in a filed in Pennsylvania killing everyone
The events of September 11th 2001 shocked the world, two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. The world’s news reported on the crashes the first was a shock the second unfurled live on air witnessed by millions around the world. The events of this day were not only tragic but had a major impact on how people looked at their lives, the re-evaluated how they lived, how they travelled even culturally life changed. As a result of people’s changing attitudes freedom of speech, censorship, music and even the way news is reported has changed. Vocabulary changed too “terrorism” “bomb” and “terror attacks” were terms used regularly and became a social norm with “war” being added to the list when Iraq was invaded.
Response to 9/11 The Event On 11th September 2001, four planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda. One of the planes flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City. 20 minutes after this horrible event, with camera crews sending pictures all over the world, a second plane crashed into the South Tower. Both Towers collapsed, killing 2,752 people. This number includes the innocent people on the planes, firemen, policemen and medical staff who had all gone to assist the crisis.
Whether the person was a professional writer, a diesel mechanic from Boston, a flight attendant on American Airlines flight 11, a janitor on floor 33 of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York or a member of the NYFD, each and every one of these lives were forever affected on the morning of September 11, 2001. Each life was affected differently depending on where the victims were on the morning of these terrorist attacks, and because of this, the post-9/11 lives of this nation and for the American people that care for this nation were all changed differently. The people who were affected may have had different religious views, political views, and different outlooks on life, but as a nation America stands as one. That being said writers and directors have had to make a decision on which perspective to look at the tragedy from, or what example to
Moreover, to smooth out the process of protection the citizens of the United States will also be discussed along with the effectiveness as of today. Public Need What was caused the need for the policy? In September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center, the pentagon, and other areas were severely attacked by vicious foreign terrorists known as the Al-Qaeda. These terrorists were Islamic who hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, while the third plane soared into the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., along with the last plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania ("History.com," 2011).
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side.
Modern American History HIST101-1502B-01 Individual Project 5 Tim Hartley 6/22/2015 9-11 On September, 11 2001 the United States was attacked by Islamic terrorists group Al-Qaeda. The official report is 19 members of these Islamic extremist group hi-jacked 4 airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets inside the United States. At 8:45 a.m. an American airliner 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel flew into the North Tower of the World Trade center in New York City. The impact from this crash left a burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. 18 minutes after the crash as the news cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident, a second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky and flew into the south tower of World Trade center near the 60th floor .
With the attacks on our nation on September 11, 2001 the effects have been felt and displayed all over the world. We are at war with Afghanistan and have been for just a little over 10 years. So why are we over there, what have we done, and when will our troops come home? On September 11, 2001 4 commercial airplanes were high-jacked two were flown into the world trade center, another flown into the pentagon, and one that was able to get taken over by passengers and crash landed into a field. During that day approximately 3000 people died according to the New York police and fire department.
On the 9th of September 2001, a group of Islamic terrorist part of Al- Qaeda bombed upon three separate areas of the USA. The most famously known were the world trade centre attacks in New York City. Where a plane was hijacked and flown straight into them with. This caused devastating destructive damage and extensive deaths, approximately there were over 3,000 deaths in total. The other attacks on that day were the attack on the pentagon in Washington