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The attacks on the World Trade Center killed 2,753 people. [16] The resulting collapse caused structural failure in many of the surrounding buildings as well, and the entire complex was soon destroyed. [27] The process of cleaning up and recovery at the World Trade Center site continued 24 hours a day over a period of eight months.
The World Trade Center experienced a fire on February 13, 1975, a bombing on February 26, 1993 and a robbery on January 14, 1998. In 1998, the Port Authority decided to privatize the World Trade Center, leasing the buildings to a private company to manage, and awarded the lease to Silverstein Properties on July 24, 2001.
8:49: The first report of an incident at the World Trade Center crosses the Associated Press newswire. 8:49:03: Local New York public radio station WNYC host Mark Hilan broadcasts that station's first report of the incident. CNN breaking the news of a plane crash at the World Trade Center
9/11 is a day that shaped America as we know it today; read on to learn more about the tragedy. ... Flight 93 and World Trade Center attacks. ... Live maps, airport status, flight delays, forecast ...
A map showing the attacks on the World Trade Center; the planes are not drawn to scale. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, media reports suggested that tens of thousands might have been killed. Estimates of the number of people present in the Twin Towers that morning range between 14,000 and 19,000.
The twin towers of the World Trade Center after the hijacked airliners crashed into them on Sept. 11, 2001. The suspected terrorist attack has caused the collapsed of both towers.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, demolishing the two 110-story towers ...