2. Summary
•What? —> Terrorist attack of the
Twin Towers
•Where? —> World Trade Center,
New York, USA
•When? —> The 11th of September
2001
3. The 11th September 2001 American
people woke up and they could
never imagine that their life would
change forever that morning.
People went to work and
thousands of them worked
at the WTC, the economic
center of New York.
At 08:46 a.m. a plain
attacked the North Tower
between 93rd and 99th
floor
4. From 08:46 to 10:28 About 200
people, trapped on the upper floors
of the North Tower and subsequently
of the South Tower, try desperately
to save themselves by throwing
themselves into the void.
No form of rescue is
prepared, due to the density
of the smoke that prevents
the landing on the roof of
both towers.
5. At 09:03 the plain of the
United Airlines 175 crashed
in the South Tower;
the terrible event was witnessed
by the world by a live channel in
proximity of the crash
6. At the same day at 09:37 a.m. American
Airlines flight 77 crashes into the west facade
of the Pentagon. The plane enters the ground
floor and first floor and passes through two
rings of the structure.
Some wreckage comes to break through
the third ring. The area, however, is
almost deserted, because it is made up
of new offices that aren’t yet fully
occupied.
7. At 10:03, a fourth plane, United
Airlines flight 93 crashed in a field
in Pennsylvania, after a clash
between passengers and hijackers.
It is believed that the target of
flight 93 could have been the
Capitol in Washington or the
White House.
8. At 10:28 a.m. the North Tower of the
World Trade Center collapses on itself.
An hour and 42 minutes have passed
since the impact of the first flight.
None of the Tower occupants above the
98th floor manage to escape.
In the collapse, 343 firefighters
and 60 policemen also die. The
Marriott Hotel, which was located
at the base of the two towers, is
also totally destroyed.
