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The September 11 attacks, also commonly referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On that morning, four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern U.S. to California were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. The hijackers were organized into three groups of five hijackers and one group of four. Each group had one hijacker who had received flight training and took over control of the aircraft. Their explicit goal was to crash each plane into a prominent American building, causing mass casualties and partial or complete destruction of the targeted buildings. Two of the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a third hit the west side of the  Pentagon. A fourth plane was intended to crash into a target in Washington, D.C., but instead crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania following a passenger revolt.

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Selecte1Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 7:35:00 AMAtta and al-Omari board American Airlines Flight 11.
Selecte2Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 7:40:00 AMThe rest of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijackers board ...
Selecte3Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 7:59:00 AMAmerican Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs 14 minute...
Selecte4Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:13:00 AMFlight 11 has its last routine communication with the Federa...
Selecte5Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:14:00 AMFlight 11 fails to heed air traffic controller's instruction...
Selecte6Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:14:00 AMUnited Airlines Flight 175, another fully-fueled Boeing 767,...
Selecte7Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:19:00 AMBetty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11 alerts American A...
Selecte8Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:20:00 AMThe Federal Aviation Administration's Boston Center flight c...
Selecte9Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:20:00 AMAmerican Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers...
Selecte10Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:21:00 AMFlight 11's transponder signal is turned off, but the plane r...
Selecte11Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:24:00 AMA radio transmission comes from Flight 11: 'We have some plane...
Selecte12Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:25:00 AMBoston Center flight controllers alert other flight control ...
Selecte13Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:26:00 AMFlight 11 makes a 100-degree turn to the south heading towar...
Selecte14Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:34:00 AMA third transmission from Flight 11: 'nobody move please. We...
Selecte15Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:34:00 AMDan Bueno from Boston Center notifies the tower controller a...
Selecte16Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:37:00 AMFlight 175 confirms sighting of hijacked Flight 11 to flight...
Selecte17Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:37:00 AMBoston Center control notifies NEADS of the hijacking of Fli...
Selecte18Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:41:00 AMThe FAA's New York Center requests information about Flight ...
Selecte19Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:42:00 AMUnited Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, takes off with 37 p...
Selecte20Tuesday, 11 September 2001, 8:42:00 AMFlight 175 is hijacked.
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"The first plane to hit its target was American Airlines Flight 11. It was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 am." "Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 am, the World Trade Center's South Tower was hit by United Airlines Flight 175. Both 110-story towers collapsed within an hour and forty-two minutes, leading to the collapse of the other World Trade Center structures including 7 World Trade Center, and significantly damaging surrounding buildings." "A third flight, American Airlines Flight 77, flown from Dulles International Airport, was hijacked over Ohio. At 9:37 am, it crashed into the west side of the Pentagon (the headquarters of the American military) in Arlington County, Virginia, causing a partial collapse of the building's side." "The fourth, and final flight, United Airlines Flight 93, was flown in the direction of Washington, D.C. The plane's passengers attempted to regain control of the aircraft away from the hijackers and ultimately diverted the flight from its intended target; it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am. Investigators determined that Flight 93's target was either the U.S. Capitol or the White House."

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