Media and Memory: Audience Research into 9/11 Introduction The following report is based on the events of September 11th 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes and in a series of suicide attacks, proceeded to crash the jets into their preplanned targets. The first plane struck at 8:46am when American Airlines Flight 11 hit Tower 1 of the World Trade Center, the second attack occurred 17 minutes later when a second jet United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into Tower 2, within 2 hours the twin towers of the World Trade Center had collapsed, and thirdly American Airlines Flight 77 at 09:37am collided into the Pentagon. This proved to be the last attack as the passengers
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.
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda caused the most deadliest attacks on American soil in U.S. history. There were a series of four (4) airline attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania killing over 3,000 people (Encylopaedia Britannica). At 8:46am, the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center and seventeen minutes later the second plane struck the World Trade Center’s south tower. After the third and fourth planes struck the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, respectfully, for the time the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) banned all aircraft flights in U.S. airspace, the ban was kept in place for two days. The 9/11 attacks caused records losses in world markets, closing trading for four days.
September 11, 2001 Terrorists of Middle Eastern origin crash three hijacked airliners into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked airliner crashes in rural Pennsylvania on its way to a target. Almost 3,000 people are killed in the attacks. Timeline of Events xxi October 2001 Congress passes the USA Patriot Act, giving law enforcement officials more power to combat the threat of terrorism. 2002 Criminal investigation of the bankruptcy of Enron, one of the nation’s largest corporations, begins, leading to several convictions over the next few years on securities fraud
September 11th: Recounting the Disaster September 8,2011 September 11th 2011 began like any other fall day in, settling comfortably at 75 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City. Unsuspecting Americans boarded four flights in four different locations. United Airlines flights 175 and 93 and American Airlines flights 77 and 11. The four were each hijacked by groups of four to five men belonging to the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. It was not until American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the North tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 A.M that the world was aware any of this had even happened.
September 11th, 2001 In my perspective, what happened on September 11th, 2001, was an act of terrorism on the United States. It was a decade ago that 19 terrorists took control of four planes, flew two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, hit the Pentagon with a third, and crashed the fourth in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted and made it impossible for the terrorists to complete their mission. The government also thought that 9/11 was an act of terrorism put on by the Muslims. While conspiracy theorists have a different perspective because they believe that there was more to this attack, it was plotted out and people from America were in on it. There have been many different perspectives on what really happened on this day.
On September 11, 2001 two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth into a Pennsylvania field. This day was the deadliest attack of by foreign enemies on American soil. Later it was learned that the hijackers had received flight training in the United States. In 2004 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ordered to check all foreign students against terrorism, criminal and immigration databases (Boyer, 2001). In October 2010, at a flight school 30 miles northwest of Boston, Federal officials arrested dozens of illegal immigrants, including the owner and students who received clearance by the U.S. Government despite of the strict guidelines put in place after the September 11 attacks.
I hesitantly put my head down on my desk and paused for a long period of time, while the other kids didn’t really care. The reason I was acting that way is because I knew what was going on and most of the others didn’t. The first tower had already been crashed into by flight 11 at 8:46 am. The plane had crashed into the north side. I had come to realize how bad this was, knowing that 250 people were stuck I that building and those 250 either suffocated to death or jumped out plummeting to
Individual Work-Week 1 Melissa Moore Everest College, CPO4003-2 Instructor DePlato 4/16/14 “At 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed” (Nobrega, 2013). In less than 90 minutes, The Twin Towers, a big part of American symbolism, collapsed when airliners piloted by Islamic extremists flew into them. Two more attacks followed; one at 9:37 when a third airliner slammed into the Pentagon and at 10:03 when a fourth was overtaken by heroic passengers and was forced down in a field in southern Pennsylvania. These terrorists lived within our borders and were trained in our flight schools. The knowledge that we provided them allowed them to effectively turn four hijacked planes into deadly guided missiles.
Joshua Jackson S. Keeton ENGL 101 June 20th, 2013 A Remembered Event: September 11th, 2001 On the morning of September 11th, 2001 the United States of America found itself under attack by Al-Qaeda. Four commercial airliners were hijacked mid-flight. Two of the airliners were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City and another struck the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth airliner was destined to hit the White House or the Capitol building but crashed in a field of Pennsylvania. Like most people who were old enough at that time, September 11th is a day that I vividly remember to this day.