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A jet airliner is lined up on Two World
Trade Center
tower in New York on Tuesday. In the most devastating
terrorist onslaughts ever waged against the United States,
knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the
World Trade Center, toppling its twin 110-story towers.
Carmen Taylor/The Associated Press
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Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11.
Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. The Empire State building is seen in the foreground.
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The World Trade Center in New York City burns. Both towers were hit
by planes crashing into the building
and both collapsed a short time later.
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Chris Kosachuk/Reuters
Richard Drew/The Associated Press
The World Trade Center tower burns
A person falls headfirst after
jumping from the north tower
behind the Brooklyn Bridge on Tuesday.
of the World Trade Center. It was a horrific
sight that was
repeated in
the moments after the planes struck the towers.
Richard Drew/The Associated Press
Paul Hawthorne/The
Associated Press
The south tower of The World Trade Center
Pedestrians scramble for safety in front
came crashing down on Tuesday after terrorists
of City Hall as the first World Trade
sent two airliners into the twin towers.
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Firemen spray water on the collapsed building seven of the World Trade Center complex early Wednesday morning.
Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse
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Firefighters peering at the ash
and rubble after the
collapse of the World Trade Centers. Many emergency
vehicles
were destroyed as well.
Justin Lane for The New York Times
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The New York skyline from New Jersey
minus the twin towers
of the
World Trade Center.
Fred Conrad/The New York Times
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CHARLES KRUPA/AP
The sun rises over where the World Trade Towers stood in lower Manhattan
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With the Jefferson Memorial in the foreground, smoke rises from the Pentagon building, which was hit by a plane less than a half-hour after the first crash at the World Trade Center.
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A portion of the Pentagon collapses.
"Huge explosion, great ball of fire,
smoke
started billowing out, and then it was just chaos."
-- Mike Walter, an eyewitness, told
CNN.
The Pentagon continued burning Wednesday
An American Airlines flight
from Washington to
morning. Spot fires in other parts of the building
Los Angeles plowed into the Pentagon with
64
having been linked to the aircraft that crashed into it.
passengers and crew aboard. The jet, which had just
taken off from Dulles Airport,
set the world's
largest office building ablaze.
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Workers continue their recovery effort at the Pentagon
as the morning sun lights up the sky with the Capitol dome
in the background.
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