World Trade Center Attack September 11, 2001

World Trade Center Attack September 11, 2001 Tuesday From “The Arizona Republic” DEC. 19, 2001 Wednesday : (Updated 9/11/03) First plane: American Airlines 767 Flight # 11 At 8:46:26 AM, local NYC time, the plane crashed into the 93rd through the 98th floors of WTC Tower 1. The plane had 92 people aboard. It was traveling at 500 miles per hour. It was carrying 15,000 gallons of fuel and it exploded with a force equal to 480,000 pounds of TNT. Second plane: United Airlines Flight # 175. This plane hit at 9:02:54 AM into Tower 2 of the WTC. It crashed into the 78th through the 84th floors of Tower 2. 479 rescue workers died trying to help people get out. This includes firefighters, policemen, security guards and people who just wanted to help. 1 hour, 42 minutes and 5 seconds was how much time elapsed from when the first plane hit up until the last WTC Tower collapsed. As of today, the death toll is about 2,803 people including rescue workers and 157 people on board the two planes. The death toll from all four hijackings is estimated at 3,046, not including the nineteen hijackers. On DEC. 7, 1941, 2,388 people died at Pearl Harbor. (2,795 died at WTC as of 11 01 02.) Tower 1: 1,434 died. Tower 2: 599 died. Tower 2 collapsed at 9:59:04 a.m. Tower 1 collapsed at 10:28:31 a.m. Each tower was 110 stories tall. The accurate times were taken from a seismograph connected to an atomic clock. The first impact registered as a 0.9 on their scale, equal to a small earthquake.