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.
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.
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 . The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. It was now clear that America was under attack. At around 10.00 a.m. the south tower of the World trade center collapsed and at 10:30 the north tower collapsed killing close to 3000 people including 343 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. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived.
9/11 Assignment Section One The bombing of the World Trade Center September 11th, 2001 shouldn’t have come as a surprise to the American people and its officials because of previous events leading up to 9/11. One event was when the FBI and Philippine police failed to communicate with one another after in a Philippines hotel the police captured Abdul Sheikh Murad and seized Ramzi Yousef’s laptop that contained plans to bomb major landmarks around the world, including the World Trade Center. In 1993 Ramzi Yousef detonates a truck bomb in the parking lot underneath the World Trade Center and killed six people. Later in 2000 military in Tampa, Florida ran a list of known terrorist and found Muhammad Atta and Al-Shehhi who were at the airport but wasn’t stop because they both had good U.S. Visas.
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.
The flight departed JFK about 2019, with 2 pilots, 2 flight engineers, 14 flight attendants, and 212 passengers on board. All 230 people on board were killed. Cause of Accident The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the TWA flight 800 accident was an explosion of the center wing fuel tank (CWT), resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. The source of ignition energy for the explosion could not be determined with certainty, but, of the sources evaluated by the investigation, the most likely was a short circuit outside of the CWT that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring associated with the fuel quantity indication system. Contributing Factors The design and certification concept that fuel tank explosions could be prevented solely by precluding all ignition sources, the certification of the Boeing 747 with the heat sources located beneath the CWT with no means to reduce the heat transferred into the CWT or to render the fuel vapour in the tank non-flammable, the cracked insulation of the FQIS wiring due to maintenance lapses that could have caused the ignition are some of the contributing factors to the
It was the winter of 1984 the month of January when I was flown to Japan to start my tour of duty in the Marine Corps. We landed in Tokyo and stayed in a hotel named Bora Bora for the night, due to the long flight. This was my first trip outside of the United States. The next morning we boarded the bullet train called the Shinkansen, which was the fastest train in the world at that time, and headed to a city called Hiroshima. Approximately 39 years earlier, the USA dropped a nuclear weapon (“Little Boy”) on this city killing nearly 90,000 people.
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.
Rhetorical analysis - Bush’s speech. On a cloudless fall day in September 2001, 19 terrorist attacked USA and made it into front pages of every newspaper in the entire world. The whole world’s population were shocked, and never before have people conjectured that the terrorists would attack the United States of America. Same evening, at the time president, George W. Bush held a speech, whose intention was to calm the U.S. population and to warn the terrorist and the rest of the world about an eventually war. Bush’s intentions with the speech is to calm the country, and be their president.
As people fled from their homes they were machine-gunned by fighter planes. The three hour raid completely destroyed the town. It is estimated that 1,685 people were killed and 900 injured in the attack and the British leaders did not want that to happen to Britain especially when it would be a much lager scale. -29th September, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which transferred the Sudetenland to Germany. When Czechoslovakia's head of state protested at this decision Neville Chamberlain told him that Britain would be not go to war over the Sudetenland.