I want to know the information about the incident of the twin towers?

Answer 1

The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced "nine eleven") consisted of a series of coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. They have been described by the U.N. and most nations as the work of 'terrorists'.[1]
That morning, 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda[2] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. Two planes (United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11) crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (One and Two). Both towers collapsed within two hours. The pilot of the third team crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft (United Airlines Flight 93) attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. As well as the 19 hijackers, a confirmed 2,973 people died and another 24 remain missing as a result of these attacks.
The attacks began with the hijacking of four commercial airliners departing from East Coast airports, fueled for flights to California. With jet fuel capacities of nearly 24,000 U.S. gallons (91,000 liters) or 144,000 pounds (65,455 kilograms),[3] each aircraft effectively became an incendiary guided missile.
•American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767-223[4], wide-body aircraft crashed into the north side of the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) at 8:46:30 a.m. local time (which was Eastern Daylight Time, or 12:46:30 UTC).
•United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767-222[5], crashed into the South Tower at 9:02:59 a.m. local time (13:02:59 UTC), an event covered live by television broadcasters from around the world who had their cameras trained on the buildings after the earlier crash.
•American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757-223[6], crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37:46 a.m. local time (13:37:46 UTC).
•United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757-222[7], crashed in a field in southwest Pennsylvania just outside of Shanksville, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Washington, D.C., at 10:03:11 a.m. local time (14:03:11 UTC), with parts and debris found up to eight miles away. The crash in Pennsylvania is believed to have resulted from the hijackers either deliberately crashing the aircraft or losing control of it as they fought with the passengers.
No one on board any of the hijacked aircraft survived.[8]
The fatalities were in the thousands, with 2,973 people killed, including 246 on the four planes, 2,602 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon.[9]Among the fatalities were 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters, 23 New York City Police Department officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers.[10] An additional 24 people remain listed as missing in the attack on the World Trade Center to this day.[11]
In addition to the 110-floor Twin Towers of the World Trade Center itself, five other buildings at the World Trade Center site, including 7 World Trade Center and the Marriott Hotel, four New York City Subway stations, and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church were destroyed or badly damaged. In total, in Manhattan, 25 buildings were damaged and all seven buildings of the World Trade Center Complex had to be razed. Later, an eighth building, the Deutsche Bank Building across Liberty Street from the World Trade Center complex had to be condemned as well, due to the uninhabitable, toxic conditions inside the office tower (it is, as of September 2006, waiting to be deconstructed). Communications equipment such as broadcast radio, television and two-way radio antenna towers were damaged beyond repair. In Arlington County, a portion of the Pentagon was severely damaged by fire and one section of the building collapsed.[12]
Some passengers and crew members were able to make phone calls from the hijacked flights. They reported that several hijackers were aboard each plane. A total of 19 were later identified by the FBI, four on United 93 and five each on the other three flights.
The hijackers reportedly took control of the aircraft by using box-cutter knives to kill flight attendants and at least one pilot or passenger. The 9/11 Commission could only establish that two of the hijackers had recently purchased Leatherman multi-function hand tools but some form of noxious chemical spray, such as tear gas or pepper spray, was reported to have been used on American 11 and United 175 to keep passengers out of the first-class cabin.[13] Bomb threats were made on three of the aircraft, but not on American 77. According to the Commission Report the bombs were probably fake.
In the fourth aircraft, black box recordings revealed that—after discovering on their phones that planes had been deliberately crashed into buildings—crew and passengers attempted to seize control of the plane from the hijackers, who then rocked the plane in a failed attempt to subdue the passengers. According to 9-1-1 tapes, one of the passengers, Todd Beamer, had asked for the operator to pray with him before the passengers attempted to retake the aircraft. After praying, he simply said, "Let's roll." (The 9/11 Commission stated that Beamer later said "Roll it," most likely referring to a drink cart being used as a battering ram. This was, however, a separate incident, which took place after he had hung up on the operator. It is evidenced by cockpit recorders) The term "Let's roll" would later become the war cry for those fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Soon afterward, the aircraft crashed into a field near Shanksville in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, at 10:03:11 a.m. local time (14:03:11 UTC). There is a dispute about the exact timing of the crash as the seismic record indicates that the impact occurred at 10:06 a.m. The 9/11 Panel reported that captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed said that Flight 93's target was the United States Capitol, which was given the code name "the Faculty of Law."
The attacks created widespread confusion across the United States. During the course of the day, unconfirmed and often contradictory reports were aired and published. One of the most prevalent of these reported that a car bomb had been detonated at the U.S. State Department's headquarters, the Truman Building in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. This erroneous report, picked up by the wire services, made it into a number of newspapers published that day. Another report went out on the AP wire, claiming that a Delta 767–Flight 1989–had been hijacked. This report, too, turned out to be in error; the plane was briefly thought to represent a hijack risk, but it responded to controllers and landed safely in Cleveland, Ohio.
At the World Trade Center, faced with a desperate situation of smoke and burning heat from the jet fuel and ignited building contents, an estimated 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning towers (as depicted in the photograph "The Falling Man"), landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below.[20] In addition, some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue. No rescue plan existed for such an eventuality. Fleeing occupants instead encountered locked access doors upon reaching the roof. In any case, thick smoke and intense heat prevented rescue helicopters from landing.[21]
1366 people were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower (1 WTC); according to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact while the rest were trapped and died later.[22]
As many as 600 people were killed instantly or trapped at and above the floors of impact in the South Tower (2 WTC). Only about 18 managed to escape in time from above the impact zone and out of the South Tower before it collapsed. The captain of Flight 11, John Ogonowski, is said to have been killed by hijackers before the impact. There were a number of reports, some contradictory, from callers aboard the hijacked aircraft that suggest the hijackers killed several people aboard the planes before impact.

Answer 2

On 11 Sept 2001, terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes with passengers on them. All of the airplanes had taken off from airports on the East Coast of the US, and were headed for long flights to the West Coast, so they were carrying a lot of fuel. After hijacking the aircraft, the terrorists took over and flew them.

One plane was intentionally flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Centers, one was flown into the South Tower, one was flown into the Pentagon, and the last crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers fought back and tried to take control of the plane back from the hijackers.

Within a very short period of time, both the North and South Towers collapsed due to stress from the airplane crashes. Because the jets were loaded with fuel, they caused intense fires when they crashed into the buildings, and those fires caused structural problems which led to the collapses. Many people managed to escape from the buildings before they collapsed, but many did not. Many civilians, firefighters, and law enforcement people lost their lives in the collapse.

The Pentagon did not collapse, but there was also a large fire there. The reason it did not collapse is because it is not a high rise building, so the damage and fire stayed in one area. Many people lost their lives there.

The flight that crashed in Pennsylvania is the one we know the most about, as some of the people on the airplane were able to talk to loved ones and dispatchers on the ground during the hijacking. What we know for certain is that they were aware of what had happened to the other planes, and that they had formulated a plan to take back control of the airplane from the hijackers so that it could not be crashed into its designated target. It was headed for Washington DC, which is the capital of the US, and it is believed the target was either the US Capitol Building or the White House, the home of the President. That the plane crashed in a field before reaching its destination is testament to the bravery of the people on board who sacrificed their lives to keep an even worse tragedy from happening.

Al-Qaeda, a terrorist network funded and supported by Osama Bin Laden, claimed responsibility for the attacks. It was not the first time Al-Qaeda had attacked American targets, but it was the impetus for the current war on terrorism.

That's about it for the basic facts.

Answer 3

Well timmy, 2 planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into them. The towers collapsed. Muslims hate America and all non-muslims.


A very small minority of retarded people think it was a gov't conspiracy. A couple people lied and twisted the truth to support these theories so they could gain attention and money.

Answer 4

you should be greater particular, or you get popular solutions. short version: 2 airliners have been highjacked by ability of contributors of an Al Qaeda terrorist group and flown into the international commerce center towers on Sept 11 2001.

Answer 5

Read the newspapers and look at the news. Today is the anniversary of the tragedy, not an incident.

Answer 6

everyone whos being mean shut the **** up.
He may not know ok?
Ever see the banner thats says "lets not forget"
well lets educate the people about it.

Answer 7

www.truth911.org

Answer 8

Duh, like where have you been for the past 5 years???????