9/11 Research Paper

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On September 11, 2001 it was a tragic day for many people . It was 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. It left a burning hole on the 80th floor of the 110 story skyscraper . It killed hundreds of people and it trapped people on the higher floors. After they evacuated the towers they started broadcasting it live on television . They were saying that is was a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes later the second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky,then they turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and crashed into the south tower around the 60th floor. …show more content…

The plane was found by William Penn. The plane flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of 500 miles per hour, crashing in a rural field in western Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m. 45 people aboard were killed. Some people think that the last plane was meant to hit the white house.

From all of the plane crashes from the twin towers to the pentagon to the field in pennsylvania. At the World Trade Center, 2,763 died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers.That includes 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 police officers and 37 police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. Includes 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.On flight 93, 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Around 2,996 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks, including the 19 terrorist hijackers aboard the four …show more content…

They were to America’s support of Israel. Some of the terrorist lived the united state for more than a year . Some terrorist took flight lessons American commercial flight schools. Some also slipped into the the country before the attack 9/11. 19 terrorists smuggled box-cutters and knives through security .

After the attacks happened some people tried to find someone to blame. They started to get mad and it erupted into attacks on people of Arab. People were getting mad at people that didn’t have to do anything with the plane crashes. Lots of people were killing innocent people.

Our response as a nation was that we were making angry mobs.Famous people were making speeches. We were making plans on how we were going to attack. But it was still terrifying to them.

People were doing as much as possible to help. Like for example some would donate blood for people that lost blood during the accident. They also remembered people that died. They would light candles and honor

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