On Our Cove Years Later 10 Later


On Our Cover


Not


forgotten – the people


and places of 9/11


1) Completed in the early 1970s, the twin towers displaced the Empire State Building as the tallest in the world.


2) The twin towers saw 200,000 people enter its doors each weekday.


3) 4)


Before 9/11, Battery Park City offered a refuge from the hectic pace of New York.


Boston’s Logan International airport boards about 13 million passengers a year. Ten terrorists passed through on 9/11.


5) A $248 million renovation to the Pentagon’s west wall (facing highway) reinforced it just before the attack.


6)


Just hours before American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, a camera spots


2 NEWSMAX / SEPTEMBER 2011 8)


a terrorist passing through security at Washington, D.C.’s Dulles Airport.


7)


At 9:03 a.m. that fateful day, United Airlines Flight 175, carrying 65 passengers and crew, hit the south tower.


The terrorists intentionally selected fl ights bound for the West Coast, so they would be heavily laden with fuel. The confl agration proved impossible to douse.


9) The south tower explodes in fl ames.


10) The pall cast by the inferno towered over the Gotham skyline for miles.


11) American Airlines Flight 175 was fl ying at about 586 mph when it plowed into the south tower’s southern façade.


12) Researchers said if thermal fi reproofi ng had not been knocked off the steel beams, the towers could have survived.


13) Its superheated steel unable to hold any longer, the doomed north tower begins its horrifi c collapse.


14) Onlookers recoil at the sight of planes striking the World Trade Center towers.


15) The image of the burning towers is taken from the New Jersey Turnpike, about 12 miles away from ground zero.


16) A fi reball erupted when the second jet strikes the south tower.


17) Commentator Barbara Olsen was aboard the aircraft that struck the Pentagon.


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