September 11, 2001
It was a day that started like any other, but in a single moment, it changed.
7:59: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. 5 hijackers on board.
8:14: United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 56 passengers and 9 crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. 5 hijackers on board. At the same time, Flight has been hijacked over Massachusetts, turning northwest, then south.
8:20: American Airlines 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers and 6 crew members, departs 10 minutes late from Washington Dulles International Airport, for Los Angeles International Airport. 5 hijackers on board.
8:42: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 37 passengers and 7 crew members, departs 42 minutes late from Newark International Airport (now Newark Liberty International Airport), bound for San Francisco International Airport. 4 hijackers are aboard. (approx.): Flight 175 is hijacked above northwest New Jersey, about 60 miles northwest of New York City, continuing southwest briefly before turning back to the northeast.
8:46:40: Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. The aircraft enters the tower intact.
8:50: (approx.): Flight 77 is hijacked above southern Ohio, turning to the southeast.
9:03:02: Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85. Parts of the plane, including the starboard engine, leaving the building from its east and north sides, falling to the ground 6 blocks away.
9:28: Flight 93 is hijacked above northern Ohio, turning to the southeast.
9:37:46: Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon and starts a violent fire.
9:45: United States airspace is shut down; all operating aircraft are ordered to land at the nearest airport.
9:57: The passengers aboard Flight 93 begin a revolt against the hijackers in an attempt to take the plane back.
9:59:00: The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 56 minutes after the impact of Flight 175.
10:03:11: Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers as a result of fighting in the cockpit 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Later reports indicate that passengers had learned about the World Trade Center and Pentagon crashes and were resisting the hijackers. The 9/11 Commission believed that Flight 93's target was either the United States Capitol building or the White House in Washington D.C.
10:28:22: The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 1 hours and 42 minutes after the impact of Flight 11. The Marriott Hotel, located at the base of the towers, is also destroyed.
10:50:19: 5 stories of part of the Pentagon collapse due to the fire.
5:20:33: 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building collapses.
Author's Point of View of September 11, 2001:
I don't truly remember much that day, I was only a year and a half at the time, my little brother a few months from being born. I was at home when the news was showing the North Tower in flames, and it wasn't the second plane striking the South Tower that my mom woke my dad up.
But now, I can only imagine how terrified people must've been then.
I know I made another story of 9/11, but I felt like doing a more updated one based from 2006 film, World Trade Center.