What happened as a result of the crash?
According to the update, what happened at the World Trade Center towers?
What happened about eighteen minutes after the North Tower crash?
At what time was the live update published?
What did witnesses say happened at 8:46 a.m.?
At that time 8: 46 what did authorities know about the cause of the crash?
What did people start to suspect?
that the crashes were not accidents, but rather parts of an organized attack
Two planes reportedly crashed into the towers.
Another jet airplane was captured on live video flying straight into the South Tower.
at 9:16 a.m.
Nothing.
Glass, bricks, and burning debris fell to the ground below and onto surrounding buildings.
They say they saw a large passenger jet slam into the North Tower, leaving a giant hole in the side of the building.
How many planes had already struck the World Trade Center towers by then?
What was the AP reporting?
What happened in Washington, D.C., at 9:37 a.m.?
What did President Bush say in his statement?
What was the FBI investigating?
How did the Federal Aviation Administration react to the incoming news?
It banned all takeoffs for flights heading through New York airspace and closed all airports in the New York City area.
He called it a terrorist attack.
that one of the planes that hit the WTC was indeed hijacked
a report of plane hijacking
two
A plane crashed into the pentagon.
Where was he going at 10:23 a.m.?
What statement did he make?
What did people do as the towers collapsed?
What happened at 10:05 a.m.?
What happened to all incoming flights to the US?
Where was President Bush during the attacks?
They ran for cover from the smoke and debris.
They were all diverted to Canada and Mexico and flights within the US were ordered to land immediately at the nearest airports.
back to Washington D.C.
in Florida
one condemning the events as acts of terrorism
The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
What had happened to the planes shortly before the attacks?
Where did the third and fourth planes crash?
What happened 30 minutes after the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center?
What did authorities believe about the fourth plane?
How many people were reported injured or presumed dead?
What were both towers hit by?
The third plane crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth plane crashed into a field just south of Pittsburgh.
The North Tower also collapsed.
that it was also hijacked and was headed for Washington, D.C.
They were hijacked.
Boeing 767 airplanes
More than 1,000 were reported injured and many were presumed dead.
What did German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder write in a letter?
What was the attack being called?
What were emergency crews doing at the time the update was published?
What was happening at 11:35 p.m. at the World Trade Center?
What did leaders in other countries do?
What did Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar say?
Who was trying to rescue the people trapped inside at the time of collapse?
How many people were presumed dead?
He said that he and the Spanish people manifested their support and solidarity to all the citizens of the United States.
searching for survivors of the attacks
firefighters
thousands
They made statements condemning the attacks.
A search for survivors was taking place under the broken pieces of the World Trade Center towers.
He wrote that he wanted to express his heartfelt condolences and his unqualified solidarity with the president and the American people.
the worst terrorist attack in history