On the morning of September eleventh, two-thousand and one at about eight forty-eight.
on the American Airlines flight eleven, a Boeing seven sixty-seven on a flight from .
Boston's Logan airport to Los Angeles's International Airport. The airliner had ninety-.
two passengers aboard when it crashed into the World Trade Center, Tower one. At .
approximately nine zero five a.m. eighteen minutes later, United Airlines flight one .
seventy five, also a Boeing seven sixty-seven from Boston to Los Angeles with sixty-.
five passengers slammed into the second World Trade Center Tower. The same horrible .
morning at approximately nine twenty-one a.m. President Bush announced that the two .
crashes were "apparent terrorist attacks on our country". After hearing about the tragedy .
all U.S. flights were stopped ; but apparently not in time because at nine forty-three a.m.
another fatal accident occurred. A flight from Dulles airport (right outside Washington) .
collides into the Pentagon bringing fifty-eight passengers and six crew members down.
with it. As a result of these tragedies the White House was evacuated. As if this wasn't a .
enough a Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco flight carrying thirty-eight passengers .
seven crew members crashes just north of the Somerset airport at ten a.m. Just minutes.
before the crash, a passenger called his mother from his cell phone and said, "We are .
being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" By ten twenty-eight a.m. both World Trade .
Center Towers had collapsed. A couple hours later, President Bush announced that the .
United States would punish those responsible. Tragically, the city of New York made.
the announcement that two hundred firefighters had been killed and seventy eight police .
officers were missing; not too mention St Vincent's hospital took in one hundred eighty-.
four people, and two victims died. Several others were injured by burns or inhaling the .
smoke. More than five hundred people lined up to donate blood for the needy victims at .