9/11 Descriptive Writing

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It was a Tuesday morning on September 11, 2001 in New York City. The weather was great. Many People were getting ready for work, and children were getting ready to go to school. Approximately 10,000 people were going to work at the Twin Towers; the two signature buildings in the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers were 110 stories tall and they were some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. The weather was also beautiful in other cities such as Portland Maine, and Boston Massachusetts. It would have been the perfect day for people expecting to travel on a plane. However, in one airport in Portland there were two specific travelers; Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari. These two people boarded a flight to travel from Portland to Boston, which was scheduled to leave at 6:00am. These men arrived at Boston’s Logan International Airport at 6:45am. Sometime between 6:45 and 7:40, these men boarded the American Airlines…show more content…
This plane carried nine flight attendants, and eighty-one passengers, including the five terrorists. The hijacking started at about 8:14. To start the hijacking, two of the terrorists-Wail al Sheri and Waleed al Shehri- got out of their seats in first class and stabbed two of the Flight attendants. The terrorists somehow got into the cockpit. Atta was the only one of the five terrorists that was trained to fly a jet. The terrorists sprayed Mace to get everyone to the back of the plane. At 8:25 one of the hijackers tried to communicate with the passengers through the microphone that was supposed to be heard in the cabin. He said, “Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.” Air traffic controllers heard what he said and knew for sure that the plane was hijacked. At 8:46, American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. All of the passengers in the plane were killed

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