![]() Of those, the vast majority were able to be evacuated safely. When the towers were struck between 16,400 and 18,000 people were in the WTC complex. The hijacked Flight 175 struck floors 77 to 85 of the South Tower 17 minutes later at 9:03 a.m. The hijacked Flight 11 was crashed into floors 93 to 99 of the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) A firefighter breaks down after the World Trade Center buildings collapsed Septemafter two hijacked airplanes slammed into the twin towers in a terrorist attack. Of those who perished during the initial attacks and the subsequent collapses of the towers, 343 were New York City firefighters, 23 were New York City police officers and 37 were officers at the Port Authority. The attacks killed 2,977 people from 93 nations: 2,753 people were killed in New York 184 people were killed at the Pentagon, and 40 people were killed on Flight 93. After learning about the other attacks, passengers on the fourth hijacked plane, Flight 93, fought back, and the plane was crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania about 20 minutes by air from Washington, D.C. The Twin Towers ultimately collapsed because of the damage sustained from the impacts and the resulting fires. ![]() Nineteen terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes, deliberately crashing two of the planes into the upper floors of the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex and a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. ELMIRA, NY ( WETM) – It is a moment in time when many Americans who are old enough can tell you where they were twenty-one years ago when they found out that a plane had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. ![]()
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