Jet fuel from the Boeing caused a devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the giant concrete building, which is the headquarters of the U.
Department of Defense. All told, military personnel and civilians were killed in the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner. Less than 15 minutes after the terrorists struck the nerve center of the U. The structural steel of the skyscraper, built to withstand winds in excess of miles per hour and a large conventional fire, could not withstand the tremendous heat generated by the burning jet fuel.
At a. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived. Almost 10, others were treated for injuries, many severe. Because the plane had been delayed in taking off, passengers on board learned of events in New York and Washington via cell phone and Airfone calls to the ground.
Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection.
One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett, Jr. I love you, honey. Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water.
The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher. The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of miles per hour, crashing in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at a. All 44 people aboard were killed. Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House , the U.
Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard. Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D. At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors.
The still-young internet was strained that day. Cities represent humanity's greatest achievements - and greatest challenges. The World Economic Forum supports a number of projects designed to make cities cleaner, greener and more inclusive. These include hosting the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization , which gathers bright ideas from around the world to inspire city leaders, and running the Future of Urban Development and Services initiative.
The latter focuses on how themes such as the circular economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution can be harnessed to create better cities. The Pentagon has been repaired, and a shiny, story World Trade Center now punctuates the skyline of Lower Manhattan, but not all wounds have healed. Many others are living with the absence of the nearly 3, loved-ones who died during the attacks. When DHS began operations in , it was the largest U. As well, the recent withdrawal from Afghanistan was a reminder that long shadow of the attack is still influencing events today, even two decades later.
This article is published in collaboration with Visual Capitalist. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum. US consumer prices have risen to their highest rate since , with consumer prices up 6.
Economists say the inflation could be long-lasting. I accept. Take action on UpLink. Plane makes a degree turn and points toward Pentagon and downtown Washington. Eleven seconds into the descent air traffic control in Cleveland receives the first of two radio transmissions; captain or first officer is heard declaring, "Mayday". Federal Aviation Administration acts. Bush is seated in a classroom in Sarasota, Florida, when his chief of staff whispers to him, "A second plane hit the second tower.
America is under attack. Bush is flown to Washington on Air Force One. Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox. The North Tower collapsed at am after burning for minutes. Debris from the collapsing North Tower hit the nearby, smaller 7 World Trade Center building, starting fires that eventually caused the building also to collapse.
As well as sending toxic dust throughout Lower Manhattan, the collapse of the three buildings left hundreds of thousands of tons of debris at the site. Workers transported the ruins from Ground Zero to the Fresh Kills Landfill site in Staten Island in a colossal cleanup operation that lasted until May This installation of 88 searchlights projected into the sky in two blue columns representing the Twin Towers started as a temporary act of remembrance in — but has now become an annual event to mark the anniversary.
The beams of light can be seen throughout New York City and in most of the suburbs of Long Island and northern New Jersey on clear nights. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning. Take international news everywhere with you!
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