September 11, 2001, was the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil and claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
is told what's believed to be a small plane hit the World Trade Center. At the time, Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, and was told it was likely an accident.Hijackers begin taking over AA Flight 77 less than a minute after the message is sent to the FAA Indy Center that all is normal. Unlike the first two hijackings, there are no reports of the terrorists using threats of a bomb or Mace or any physical violence.
Brian David, a former Navy pilot and passenger on UA Flight 175, calls his mother, Louise, and tells her passengers are thinking about storming the cockpit to retake control of the plane.Bush arrives at Room 301 at the elementary school for a demonstration of the school's early reading program. Peter, the passenger aboard UA Flight 175, calls his father Lee again and tells him that he thinks"we are going down.
Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001, in New York City.White House chief of staff Andrew Card informs Bush that the South Tower was hit and this was not an accident."A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack," Card told"My first reaction was outrage. Someone had dared attack America. They were going to pay," Bush recalled thinking in that moment.
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