50 9 11 World Trade Center Attack

The world trade center was struck twice the first time in 1993 with a truck bomb that failed to bring down the towers but did kill six people and the second time on september 11 2001.

9 11 world trade center attack. Flight 175 crashes into 2 wtc 3rd row left to right. Hijackers used jet airliners as weapons and rammed them into new york city s world trade center and the. Flight 77 s collision with the. September 11 attacks part of terrorism in the united states top row.

A firefighter requests assistance at world trade center site. The september 11 attacks struck the nation on a clear late summer morning on the east coast. The september 11th attack wtc 1 or the north tower was the first of the twin towers to be completed the first to be hit by one of the trans continentially fuelled flights on september 11th and the last to be destroyed. An engine from flight 93 is recovered bottom row.

The immediate deaths included 265 on the four planes including the terrorists 2 606 in the world trade center and in the surrounding area and 125 at the pentagon. Collapsed section of the pentagon. September 11 attacks also called 9 11 attacks series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the islamic extremist group al qaeda against targets in the united states the deadliest terrorist attacks on american soil in u s. The twin towers of the world trade center burning 2nd row left to right.

This frame is from the famous naudet brothers video. On september 11 2001 hijackers crashed american airlines flight 11 into the north tower of the world trade center in new york city. During the september 11 attacks of 2001 2 977 victims and 19 hijackers were killed and more than 6 000 others were injured. Defining images from the 9 11 attacks the second tower of the world trade center bursts into flames after being hit by a hijacked airplane in new york september 11 2001.