'It was like mirrors shining the light of the sun into this hell hole'. Photographer Wim Wenders describes a special moment when light shone upon the destruction of 9/11. That 'miraculous' moment brought a 'peaceful, serene message of hope', he says
One of the overwhelming things on 11 September 2001, especially for the people of New York City, was the amount of information they were getting about what was happening - much of which was wrong.
Atta, a 33-year-old Egyptian national, had travelled in June 2000 from Europe to the US, where he and the other hijack team leaders began pilot training. At various points in 2001, he met with some of the other hijackers after they arrived in the US.US President George W Bush goes for a jog around the Florida resort where he and his staff had stayed the night ahead of a school visit that day.Newark International Airport.
Five minutes later, another crew member alerts the ground to the stabbings - and shortly after, the plane's transponder is turned off. Air traffic control realise a hijacking has taken place.Hani Hanjour was the hijack leader of Flight 77, acting alongside Salem al Hamzi , Nawaf al Hamzi and two others
Ziad Jarrah was the leader of the team that hijacked Flight 93, which also included Ahmed al Nami and Ahmed al Haznawi Another tells passengers to get to the back of the cabin, also stabbing flight crew. Al Shehhi then takes over the controls. Five minutes later, it changes course and its transponder's signal is altered.The hole left in the North Tower after it was hit by Flight 11A fireball engulfs floors 93 to 99 of the building, which is 417m high.
Fire chiefs quickly determine it will be a rescue, not a firefighting operation. Teams of firefighters begin to head up the stairwells to help those trapped or injured.
Andrew Card tells the president about the planes crashing into the World Trade Center during his visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida Numerous others inside the building are given the same message by emergency call handlers - stay put and wait to be told to evacuate. Many are believed to have later died.Bush speaks to children, staff and the media at Booker Elementary School
One passenger calls his wife telling her the plane has been hijacked, and that another passenger has died after a stabbing. The first firefighter to die on the day is killed when he is hit by a person who has jumped or fallen from the upper storeys of the South Tower, landing at the corner of West and Liberty streets.
Vice President Dick Cheney heads to the bunker underneath the White House, from where he directs operations as Mr Bush is ferried to Air Force One.Scores of people died inside the Pentagon after it was hit by Flight 77Flight 77 crashes into the west side of the Pentagon - eight minutes after engaging manual control.
The photo that was later named The Falling Man is taken by an Associated Press photographer after a victim trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower - above the impact zone - either jumps or falls. It is estimated between 100 and 200 jumped or fell from the Twin Towers.The first claim of responsibility is made by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but this is later denied by a senior official from the group.
Huge clouds of dust and pulverised concrete ballooned through the streets of lower Manhattan in the seconds after the South Tower collapsed
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