september+11,+2001

=September 11, 2001= September 11, 2001. On that morning, four commercial passenger crashed two Air planes into the Twin Towers of the World trade center in New york city. killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The terrorist crashed a third airliner into the pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the terrorist had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights. The death toll of the attacks was 2,996.The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 70 countries. In addition, there is at least one secondary death one person was ruled by a medical examiner to have died from lung problems due to exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse. The United States responded to the attacks by launching war by invading afganistan The destruction of billions of dollars worth of office space caused serious damage to the economy.