The first aircraft, a Boeing 767 was hijacked and used as a missile, was American Airlines Flight 11, which took off from Boston Logan International Airport at. 7:59, bound for Los Angeles. There were 92 on board the aircraft including crew and the five terrorists who were led by Mohammed Atta.
It is estimated that the hijacked plane pm. 8.15. Twelve minutes later the plane took a sharp turn to the south. Kl. 8:46 flew with Atta as a pilot with a speed 605 km / h into the northern side of the northern Twin Tower, North Tower (WTC 1). The plane, which contained about 40,000 gallons of fuel, hit the 94th-98th floor and cut through the skyscraper at 6/10 second. A violent explosion followed. All three stairs and elevators on the floors that surround them, were destroyed. No one who stayed over 94th floor, survived. Temperatures from the violent explosion and subsequent fire were so high and the smoke so thick stifling that many of those who stayed on top, saw no other solution than to jump to their deaths. Slightly more than 1,300 were captured and killed in North Towers upper floors.
The attack on the South Tower. As another Boeing 767, United Airlines Flight 175, 18 minutes later steered angle into the South Tower (WTC 2), where a powerful explosion hit between the 78th and 86th floor, it was clear to the US authorities that was a coordinated terrorist attack.
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