New York City (Twin Towers Before
9-11-01) That we will miss and never forget this day of lost!
Time of Events Of 9-11-01
08:45 EDT: A passenger
jet crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
• American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston to Los Angeles, with 81 passengers,
nine flight attendants and two pilots.
09:03 EDT: A second
airliner crashes into its twin south tower, causing a devastating explosion.
• United Airlines Flight 175, from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers,
two pilots and seven flight attendants.
09:10 EDT: In Florida
President Bush is reading to children in a classroom when his chief of staff,
Andrew Card, whispers news of the attacks into his ear.
09:20 EDT: The FBI
investigates reports of planes being hijacked before the World Trade Center
crashes.
09:29 EDT: First reports
of casualties indicate that at least six people were killed, with at least 1,000
injured.
09:30 EDT: U.S. President
George Bush declares: "We have had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have
crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our
country."
09:43 EDT: Abu Dhabi
television reports it received a call from the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, claiming responsibility for crashing two planes into
the WTC. However, leading officials later deny the claim.
09:43 EDT: Another plane
crashes into the Pentagon in Washington. The nerve center of the U.S. military
bursts into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure
collapses.
• American Airlines Flight 77 from Dulles to Los Angeles with 58 passengers,
four flight attendants and two pilots crashed next to the Pentagon. About 10
minutes later, a portion of the Pentagon collapses.
09:45 EDT: The White
House and The Capitol are evacuated amid further threats.
09:50 EDT: All airports
across the U.S. shut down.
10:10 EDT: United Flight
93, en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashes near Pittsburgh,
north of the Somerset County Airport. Officials believe that plane may have been
headed toward Camp David (the presidential retreat in Maryland), the Capitol
Building or the White House.
10:07 EDT: The south
tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
10:27 EDT: The north
tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
12:33 EDT: United
Airlines confirms a second of its plane has crashed at an unknown location.
12:39 EDT: Bush makes
second statement, vows to hunt down and punish those responsible.
13:20 EDT: Bush leaves
Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for an undisclosed location.
14:48 EDT: New York's
mayor Rudy Giuliani says the eventual death toll from Tuesday's attack may be
"more than any of us can bear".
16:25 EDT: The American
Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange say they will remain
closed on Wednesday.
16:30 EDT: President Bush
leaves Offutt Air Force Base aboard Air Force One to return to Washington where
he will make a nationally televised address.
17:20 EDT: Forty-seven
story building 7 adjacent to the ruins of the World Trade Center collapses.
At
Ground Zero (The Tragic Toll)
(Totals
On May 30,2002 & Sept 11,2002)
Total
Dead: 2,823
Recovered:
1,102
Never
Found: 1,721
Police
Deaths: 23
Port
Authority Officer's Deaths: 37
Fire
Fighter Deaths: 343
Recovery
Work: 3,100,000 Hours
Debris
Removed: 1,642,698 tons
Steel
Removed: 190,586 tons
Subterranean
Debris Left: 25,000 tons
Number
Of Trucks Used: 108,444
Area
Cleared: 16 acres (3 football fields)
Last
Fires Extinguished: Dec 20, 2001
Number
Of Daily Visitors: 1,000+daily
In
Loving Remembering Of Our Hero's and Our Family's and Special People We
Lost On The Day Of 9-11-01!
"Life
We Had To Give To Make A Better World Will Never Be Forgotten!"
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