This number includes the innocent people on the planes, firemen, policemen and medical staff who had all gone to assist the crisis. A third plane then later crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the US military). 190 people died, including 64 passengers and crew who were on the plane. The fourth plane then later crashed in Pennsylvania after the people tried to retake the plane from the hijackers. 40 passengers and crew died.
19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both towers collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others on their
Two took over the cockpit, and two tried to stop the passengers from doing anything. Jimmy soon beat the terrorists with his titanium skateboard with the help of the others on the plane. The plane then soon crashed in the Canadian wilderness, everyone either dead or knocked out. Jimmy survived only because he was holding his titanium skateboard which acted like a shield, blocking him from anything that he crashed into. Henry, Julia, David, an old lady called Mrs. Herschel , and a flight attendant named Arcadia also survived.
A seemingly shy man in his mid-forties buys a ticket in Portland for Seattle on Northwest Airlines flight 305. After the plane takes off, Dan Cooper, later to become DB calls the stewardess and tells her he is hijacking the plane. He shows her a briefcase containing what looks like a bomb. He instructs her to write a note demanding 4 parachutes and $200,000. After landing in Seattle he exchanges the 36 passengers for the parachutes and the money and instructs the pilot to fly to Mexico.
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 .
Reading Response 4 Tuesday, September 11, 2001 was a bright beautiful morning in many regions of the United States. The Twin Towers stood tall in the Financial District, as they had for 28 years. A husband gave his wife his last Good Morning kiss, a firefighter put on his uniform to go to work and a mother dropped off her daughter at her very first day at work at the World Trade Center. At approximately 8:46 in the morning phones started to ring. The World Trade Center has been hit by two commercial aircrafts who were hijacked by suicidal terrorists.
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). In this attack, more than three thousand people died and extensive destruction. Various people lost their lives due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time and risking their lives to save others. Many citizens reacted out of anger, fear, and insecurity to this unexpected situation. People began to question how safe the United State really is, which brought the attention to our Congress and the
CIS518 Assignment 1 Submitted by: Mohammad Shahriar Professor: Dr. Edwin Otto Strayer University EXERCISES - 1 PILOT’S COMPUTER ERROR CITED IN PLANE CRASH. AMERICAN AIRLINES SAYS ONE-LETTER CODE WAS REASON JET HIT MOUNTAIN IN COLOMBIA. Dallas, Aug. 23—The captain of an American Airlines jet that crashed in Colombia last December entered an incorrect one-letter computer command that sent the plane into a mountain, the airline said today. The crash killed all but four of the 163 people aboard. American’s investigators concluded that the captain of the Boeing 757 apparently thought he had entered the coordinates for the intended destination, Cali.
“Flight” can show the message of falling to the “lowest of the lows” and gaining redemption towards the end. Whip Whitaker is a commercial airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly irregularly. With not a lot of options, Whip has to crash the plane: however, results in Whip Whitaker saving almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges.
Extremely shaken, and at the very last minute, he buys a ticket on flight 209, where Elaine is to work this evening. Captain Clarence Oveur (Peter Graves) is in the flight deck, with Flight Engineer Victor Basta (Frank Ashmore) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, uh, I mean First Officer Roger Murdock. Oveur, Victor, Roger You’ll understand why they have these colorful names later on with transmissions like: “We have clearance, Clarence. – Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?” Their aircraft looks like a Boeing 707 jet airliner from outside but flies under the constant hum of a prop plane!