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[8] The airfield was besieged by the Defence Forces in late autumn 1977, with the intention of protecting the field from a possible terrorist attack by the Red Army Corps.


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[9] The airport's passenger terminal was first expanded in 1983, and an entirely new terminal was built for domestic flights in 1993.


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In 1996, the airport underwent a major overhaul when the original foreign terminal was expanded and the domestic terminal was merged with it.


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At the same time, a new shopping street, convention center and hotel were opened, and commuter traffic control moved into a new control tower.


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The following year, a new VIP President terminal was opened for state visits.


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The airport's foreign terminal was expanded again and new departure and arrivals halls opened there in November 1999.


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The historical event that hit the year 2000 was that the annual number of passengers in Helsinki Airport exceeded the 10000000 limit.


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[10] Approach control moved from the so-called cave to new above-ground facilities.


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In 2001, new Schengen border inspection arrangements came into place.


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The third runway was commissioned on 28 November 2002, used by the first Finnair MD-11 departing towards New York City.


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In 2004, the foreign terminal was expanded and a new shopping area was opened for passengers on long-haul flights.


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At the same time, an air cargo service was also opened for passengers with overweight baggage, for example.


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24 check-in machines were introduced in 2006.


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[11] On 13 August 2007, a Hilton chain hotel, Hilton Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, with 330 apartments, was opened in connection with the airport.


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[12] [13] Independent use of parallel runways began in November 2007.


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[14] A toll-free WLAN network was opened at the airport on November 25, 2008.


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[15] On 5 August 2009, the terminal division of the airport changed to no longer be divided by flight destination (domestic and foreign terminal), but by airline.


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[16] In autumn 2009, the airport saw a number of industrial action as outsourcing took place when Finavia competitive security checks.


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The security checks passed to cleaning and property services group SOL Services in the autumn.


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At the same time the terms of employment changed.


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In January 2010, SOL began YT negotiations with 80 employees.


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However, economically, the re-competition of security services was profitable for Finavia, and thus for air passengers, since Finavia achieved significant cost savings in the first six months of 2010 compared to the previous six months.


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This was possible largely due to the competitive nature of security services in Helsinki Airport.


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[17] Finnair outsourced baggage services from its subsidiary Northport to Barona Handling at the turn of November—December 2009, when workers went on a four-day illegal strike.


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At the turn of the year 2009-10, thousands of bags were lying in Helsinki Airport, which passengers did not receive.


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Employees said there were a tenth fewer staff in baggage loading in January 2010 than in the past.


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The Aeronautics Union accused Barona of failing to comply with security regulations during the demolition of the bag summa during an industrial action.


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[18] In January 2010, the STT wrote that some of the employees would have intentionally sent bags improperly to items.


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[19] [20] [21] In 2009, the airport was not among the top five airports in the Airport Service Quality survey.


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[22] New passenger facilities designed for long-haul flight needs were introduced at the airport on 11 December 2009.


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The area of the terminal expanded by 30%.


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At the same time numerous new shops and restaurants were opened in the new terminal section as well as a luxury spa.


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Five new passenger bridges for wide-body aircraft were completed.


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The spa closed in February 2012 due to low use.


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[23] In 2011, the airport's passenger volume increased by 15,5% to 14,9 million passengers.


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About 25% of passengers changed planes at the airport.


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Of the passengers, 12.2 million flew abroad and 2.7 million flew domestically.


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A total of 1.63 million passengers were on flights to Asia.


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[24] A free cinema called Airport Cinema was opened next to departure gate 33 in November 2018.


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[25] Construction projects In spring 2010, the airport launched a luggage handling centre using the latest technology, where all outgoing and exchanging baggage handling is centralised.


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The handling of incoming baggage remains in the current loading facilities.


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The parts of the airport building, completed in 1969 and 1983, were completely renovated.


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The renovation was completed in 2012.


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Runway 3 (22R/04L) was basic repaired in April—June 2012, leaving the runway out of service.


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Subsequently, the adjacent taxiway to Runway 2 (15/33) was basic repaired, with Runway 2 serving as a temporary taxiway.


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The renovation was completed in September 2012.


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[26] A railway station opened at the airport on 10 July 2015.


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[27] The ring track connects the northern main line and the western Vantaankoski line.


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The journey from the airport to Helsinki Central Railway Station takes about half an hour, Tikkurila railway station about 10 minutes.


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The airport's railway station was built underground with a parking facility between P3A and P1/P2.


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The station provides access to the gateway between Terminal 1 and 2.


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The main runway 04R/22L was basic repaired during the summer of 2015 and reopened in early August.


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[28] Within walking distance of Terminal 2, a 13-storey two-building World Trade Center has been completed, with Finavia as the main tenant.


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[29] In early 2018, a Scandic hotel will also open in this building, containing 148 rooms.


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This is the third hotel in the immediate vicinity of the airport.


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[30] Expansion of the terminals began in early 2016 from the south wing of the long-distance airport.


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After that, construction work on the west wing will begin, which is scheduled to be completed in summer 2020.


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[31] 2017 also began the expansion of Terminal One, where T1 receives about 3500 additional squares.


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[32] The T1 terminal will be lengthened by 230 metres and there will be seven new departure ports. [33].


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The south wing extension was completed in the summer of 2017.


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Interior photos Terminal 1 check-in lounge Terminal 2 Terminal 2 Check-in lounge Terminal 2 Terminal 2 Extension section Runways Helsinki Airport has three runways: [34] 04R/22L (runway 1), so-called main runway, dimensions: 3500m × 60m 15/33 (runway 2), so-called transverse runway or side runway, dimensions: 2901m × 60m 04L/22R (runway 3), runway parallel to the main runway, dimensions: 3060m × 60m Runway Operating Principles The choice of runways used is influenced by many factors such as weather.


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Ideally, Runway 22R is the departure runway and 15 is the landing runway (Open V configuration).


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In parallel operation of 22 runways (parallel 22), there is a 22R departure and 22L landing runway (not only silent turbojet aircraft can be cleared for departure also from runway 22L (Quiet Jet)).


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The 04 runways have a 04L landing and 04R takeoff runway in parallel use.


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Today, runway 33 (i.e.


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runway 2 facing northwest) is rarely used, especially for landing, as it lacks ILS precision approach equipment, but only VOR/DME and RNAV methods without actual vertical guidance, making its use in slightly worse weather difficult.


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Sometimes it can be used as a departure runway for northbound flights.


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To reduce interference, the order of precedence is used, which for departures is 22R, 22L, 04R, 33, 15 and for landings 15, 22L, 04L, 04R, 22R, 33.


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In order to reduce noise nuisance at night between 23—06, 22R is used as the departure runway and 15 as landing runway, unless otherwise required by weather or other conditions.


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Ground transport Helsinki Airport is located in the immediate vicinity of Kehä III and Tuusulanvää.


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Train tracks running beneath the airport in the tunnel connect the field to the Helsinki region's commuter rail network.


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Public Transport Commuter Trains HSL offers two commuter rail lines from Helsinki city centre to the airport.


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These lines run between Helsinki - Tikkurila - Airport - Myyrmäki - Helsinki (I train) and clockwise from Helsinki - Myyrmäki - Airport - Tikkurila - Helsinki (P train) stopping at each station.


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The lines are operated by low-floor Flirt trains.


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Trains are operated by VR.


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Lines have a tidal interval of 10 minutes during the daytime, 19 to 22 15 minutes in the evenings, and half an hour for quiet time.


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The journey from Helsinki to the airport takes 27 minutes by I train and 32 minutes by P train.


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When travelling from Helsinki, trains are served by a regional ticket (ABC ticket in the zone model starting in 2018).


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[35] [36] Buses Finnair City Bus is a bus service operated by Pohjolan Transport from Elielinaukio to the airport, which costs €6,20 for an adult and 3,10€ for a child (6-16 years).


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When buying from a driver, ticket prices are €6.30 for an adult and €3.20 for a child.


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[37] In addition to Elielin Square, the FCB stops next to Hesperia Park.


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The journey from the center to the terminals takes about 30 minutes.


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[38] HSL's regional lines 415 (from Elielinaukio) and 615 (from Rautatientori) take you from the centre of Helsinki to the airport in about 40 - 50 minutes.


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Line 615 operates through the clock.


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Tikkurila Station is served nightly by line 562N after commuter rail services break.


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Aviapolis Train Station, located in the vicinity of the airport, has an interchange with several bus lines.


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Taxis There is a taxi post in front of both terminals.


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A one-way taxi ride from Helsinki city centre to the airport costs around 45—50 euros and travel time is around 30-40 minutes.


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[39] Parking in Helsinki Airport has about 10000 parking spaces.


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In the summer of 2016, an extension of approximately 3000 parking spaces on Parking House P5 was completed.


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[40] Parking has been implemented as follows: Express parking in front of both terminals has an outdoor area of about 100 places.


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Parking time is not more than one hour.


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Holiday Park Parking houses P3 and P5 have a total of around 5000 parking spaces within a 15-minute walk away.


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Parking time is not limited.


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There are about 1,000 parking lots in outer areas 4A and 4B.


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There is a free shuttle bus service from the regions to the terminals.


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Parking time is not limited.


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Business park Parking houses P1 and P2 have a total of about 2000 parking spaces near Terminal 2.


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Parking time is not limited.


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Remote Park The outdoor area has about 2000—3000 parking spaces.


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Parking time is not limited.


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In addition, there are also air parking companies operating near the site, [41] [42] [43], where you can leave the car in a guarded area and get transport to the terminal.


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Airlines and destinations Helsinki Airport is a hub for international and domestic transport for Finnair and Norway.


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Helsinki-Vantaa Airport has two terminals connected to each other by a corridor.


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Terminal 1 is used by airlines belonging to the Star Alliance, such as Scandinavian Airlines and Lufthansa, and Terminal 2 by other airlines such as Finnair, KLM, and Norwegian.


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Scheduled flights 1 = Public service obligation subsidized by tax money Charter airlines Aegean Airlines Bulgaria Air Bulgarian Air Charter Corendon Airlines Finnair Holiday flights Freebird Airlines Jet Time Nouvelair Onur Air Primera Air Royal Jordanian Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia TUIfly Nordic Cargo Airlines AirBridgeCargo Airlines (Moscow-Sheremetyevo) [49] Airest (Tallinn) DHL Aviation (Brussels, Leipzig/Halle, London-Heathrow) FedEx (Stockholm, Paris) Nord-Flyg (Mariehamn) Pskovavia (Saint Petersburg) TNT (Liege) UPS (Stockholm-Arlanda, Malmö, Cologne/Bonn) Business airlines Airfix Aviation Jetflite Scanwings Other operators FinnHEMS 10 Ground handling services to airlines are provided by Airpro Oy, Ground Power (Maaforce Oy), ISS Aviation, Havas Europe (North Hub Services Finland Oy), Servisair Finland Oy and Swissport Finland Oy.


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The fuel is supplied by Neste Aviation, Shell and St1 Avifuels Oy located in Helsinki Airport.


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Catering services are provided by LSG Sky Chefs Finland and Vantaa Catering Services Ltd.


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[50] Statistics Accidents and hijacking situations On 2 December 1957, the approach of Aeroflot's Ilyushin Il-14 from Leningrad went long in a cloudy fog, and the pilots were unable to stop the plane before the runway ended.


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The plane crashed out of the runway, eventually stopping south of the airport area in a country road bench.


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Sixteen passengers and five crew members were on board, of whom ten people were injured.


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[52] On 10 July 1977, two young Soviet men hijacked an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 plane bound for Leningrad from Petrozavodsk, trying to reach Stockholm.


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However, due to low fuel, the plane was forced to land at Helsinki Airport.


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The hijacking situation lasted three days, after which the hijackers surrendered to the police and were handed over to the Soviet Union.


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On September 30, 1978, 37-year-old former contractor Aarno Lamminparras hijacked a Finnair flight (Caravelle) from Oulu to Helsinki.


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The plane went to Amsterdam and returned from there to Helsinki Airport.


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The privateer surrendered to police on October 1.


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Of the plane's 44 passengers, none were killed or injured.


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On January 31, 2005, Nord-Flyg AB's Cessna C208B type aircraft on a cargo flight bound for Sweden crashed shortly after takeoff into the airport area between the 1st and 3rd runways.


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The cause of the accident was precipitation caused by snow and ice left on the top surface of the wing.


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The pilot, who was the only person on the plane, was slightly injured in the accident.


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[53] Helsinki-Vantaa passenger and transport studies The airport has performed well in various passenger and transport surveys in recent years.


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[5] 1997: Best in Europe (IATA) 1998: Best in the World (IATA) 1999: Best in the World in Its Own Size Class (IATA) 2000: Best in the World in Its Own Size Class and Best in Europe (IATA) 2000: Aeronautical Institute Airport of the Year 2004: World's Best in Its Own Size Class and Second in Europe best (AETRA) 2005:3rd best in the world in its own size class and 3rd best in Europe (AETRA) 2006:3rd best in the world in its own size class and 3rd best in Europe (ASQ), 2nd best in Europe (Skytrax) 2007:3rd best in Europe (ASQ) 2008: world's 9th best (Skytrax) 2009: best in the world baggage handling (Skytrax) 2009: the best airport in the world (Monocle Magazine) 2010: Best airport in Northern Europe (Skytrax) 2010: best airport in the world (Monocle) 2010: Finavia Airport of the Year [54] 2011: best lounge in the world (Priority Pass) [55] 2012 airport on social media (SimpliFlying) [56] 2017: the best airport in the world (Travellink) 2018: Finnish Travel Gala: “The most memorable travel or service experience” Sources On the topic elsewhere Transclusion error: {{En}} is only for use in File namespace.


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Terrorist acts of 9/11

Referred to as the 9/11 terrorist acts (also referred to as September 11, WTC attacks, and 9/11), the series of terrorist attacks that took place in the United States on September 11, 2001.


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Four passenger aircraft were hijacked in this case, [1] two of which were deliberately diverted facing the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.


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The South Tower was destroyed in less than an hour and the North Tower in less than two hours.


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A third aircraft was diverted facing the Pentagon building just off the nation's capital, Washington.


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A fourth aircraft crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.


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[2] [3] After nine hours, another third tower block, WTC 7, was destroyed, which was not hit by an aircraft.


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[4] The hijackers of the aircraft were 19 Al Qaeda terrorists operating under the command of Osama bin Laden [5] and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.


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[6] Based on investigations, structural damage and fires caused by aircraft collisions are considered to be the cause of the collapse of the WTC's twin towers.


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[7] The collapse of WTC 7, in turn, was caused by fires causing the structures to fail.


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[8] A total of nearly 3000 people were killed in the attacks, of which more than 2700 were killed in the twin towers and aircraft flown into them [3].


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Indirectly, at least 1064 people have died as a result of the attack by July 2016, mostly emergency workers with cancer.


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In total, about 5500 cancer sufferers have turned up.


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[9] After the acts of terrorism, the United States began a war on terror that has lasted to this day.


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Terrorist Acts Early in the morning of September 11, 2001, a total of 19 hijackers took control of four passenger aircraft.


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They were American Airlines Flight AA 11 and United Airlines Flight UA 175 bound from Boston to Los Angeles; American Airlines Flight AA 77 from Washington to Los Angeles; and United Airlines Flight UA 93 from Newark to San Francisco.


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[10] AA 11 collided with the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. and UA 175 South Tower at 9:03am [11].


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Initially there was no certainty about the cause of the collision.


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It was not known in the media whether it was an accident or a deliberate act.


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After the second blow, the intentionality of the acts began to be apparent.


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At 9:30 a.m., President George W. Bush issued a statement saying there had been an “apparent terrorist attack.”


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[12] A third group of hijackers directed AA 77 facing the Pentagon at 9:37 [11].


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A fourth flight, UA 93, probably targeting either the White House or the U.S. Congress Building Capitol, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03am, after passengers had attempted to regain control of the aircraft from hijackers [2] [10].


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Some passengers and staff were able to call from planes via radio or mobile phones and give details such as that each aircraft had multiple hijackers and that they had used a spray similar to tear gas or pepper spray [13] [14].


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The hijackers were carrying knives with which they stabbed flight attendants and at least one passenger [15].


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The 9/11 Commission set to investigate the attacks later confirmed the information that two of the hijackers had recently purchased a Leatherman multi-function knife [16].


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Both an AA 11 flight attendant and passengers aboard UA 175 and 93 mentioned the hijackers had a bomb, but one of the passengers speculated it was a fake bomb.


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Apparently that held true, as no remains of explosives were found at the fall sites.


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[15] Based on the black box recordings of Flight 93 and phone calls from the aircraft, it is known that staff and passengers attempted to take over the aircraft after learning by telephone that planes hijacked in the same manner had already crashed into buildings that morning.


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The hijackers made sharp steering maneuvers and eventually reversed the aircraft into landing when it became apparent that the passengers would gain control of the aircraft.


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Eventually, the aircraft flipped upside down and crashed.


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[15] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the chief planner of the terrorist attacks, mentioned in a 2002 interview with al Jazeera that the target of Flight 93 was the Capitol, which had been given the codename “Faculty of Law” [17].


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Due to the terrorist attacks, three buildings were caved in from the World Trade Center.


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Although the South Tower was struck later than the North Tower, it caved in earlier.


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The South Tower caved in 56 minutes after impact, at 9:59 a.m., in nine seconds, and the North Tower caved in at 10:28 a.m., one hour and 42 minutes after impact in 11 seconds.


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[18] [19] [11] When the planes collided with the towers, kerosene explosively caught fire and spread into the air and buildings.


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Intense fire destroyed the fire insulation of the load-bearing steel structures, and their strength and load-bearing capacity were greatly reduced due to the heat.


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As the steel pillars warped, the floors pressed to sag, pulling the outer perimeter pillars inward.


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Terrorist acts of 9/11

Then the pillars of the inner perimeter were under such severe strain that their joints could no longer stand and the buildings began to collapse.


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The South Tower caved in faster than the North Tower because the aircraft that hit it already destroyed more load-bearing structures on impact than the North Tower.


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[20] When the North Tower caved in, the southern facade of WTC 7 was damaged and several fires broke out in the building.


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According to results published by NIST in 2008, WTC7's cave-in was caused by the failure of frame structures caused by multiple storey-wide, per se conventional but uncontrolled fires.


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The heating of the steel support structures and beams of the midsoles caused, according to NIST, an extraordinary event, the failure of an important structural pillar due to the thermal expansion of the structures.


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In this case, the rapidly advancing damage caused the collapse of the entire building.


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[8] At Arlington, the aircraft crashed nearly ground-level into the western wall of the Pentagon, causing the first two floors of the outermost perimeter to be destroyed, and after about 20 minutes, all five floors caved in to the width of the seven-column gap.


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Several fires immediately broke out in the building.


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[21] Air traffic was quickly curtailed due to the attacks.


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At 9:08 a.m., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration FAA banned takeoff of any aircraft that were supposed to fly in the airspace of New York or the surrounding area.


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The ban was extended to all civilian aircraft throughout the country at 9:26 a.m. and U.S. airspace was closed at 9:45 a.m.


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All 4500 aircraft in the air were ordered to land at the nearest airport as soon as possible.


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The airspace was empty of civilian planes at 12:15 a.m.


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[22] Planes coming to the United States had to either turn back or find a landing site somewhere else, mostly in Canada [23].


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The media broadcast unconfirmed and often contradictory news throughout the day.


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The news agency Associated Press, for example, relayed the news of a car bomb that had exploded at the foreign ministry.


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CNN reported on a fire that broke out at Washington Mall Park.


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[12] [24] Authorities also thought the 1989 Delta Airlines flight was hijacked, but the plane eventually landed safely at Cleveland Airport [15] [25].


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Several television channels, e.g.


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CNN, reporting explosions in the WTC towers at the time of the attacks.


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[26] Victims of attacks In total, almost 3000 people were killed in terrorist attacks and hijackings, but it is difficult to determine the exact figure.


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A few weeks after the attacks, casualties were estimated at more than 6000.


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[36] After one year since the attacks, the memorial service, led by the then mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, read the names of 2801 victims who perished in New York City.


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Dozens of names had shortly before been removed from the list due to suspicions of fraud.


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[37] Even after this, the estimate of the number of deaths in New York City has decreased to [38].


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In 2004, the Commission report gave the number of New York victims as 2749 [31], but since then people have been added to the official list of those killed in attacks [39] [40].


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Most recently added to the list was Leon Heyward, who died of lymph node cancer in 2008, followed by the official number of deaths in New York at 2752 [27].


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The number of deaths in Arlington was 184 [30] and 40 [34] in Shanksville, bringing the total number of casualties to 2976.


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All 19 hijackers were killed.


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Among the dead were citizens of more than 90 different countries [41].


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The New York National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) estimated in its report that about 18,000 people were in the twin towers of the World Trade Center when the attacks occurred, roughly equal numbers in each [42].


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According to the NIST report, a total of 2150—2160 people died in the Twin Towers: the deaths in the North Tower numbered 1460−1530 and 630−700 in the South Tower [42].


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Many people in the South Tower learned that some accident had occurred in the North Tower and some had time to exit even before the second aircraft crashed [11].


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Of all the casualties, only 160−190 had been below the collision zone [43].


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The New York Times mentions that at least 18 people were able to escape the impact zone or the floors above the South Tower because one stairwell survived intact.


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In the North Tower, no one is known to have survived from or above the 91st floor.


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[44] As the aircraft crashed into the North Tower, hundreds of people died instantly.


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Hundreds more were trapped because the crab corridors were destroyed as unpassable from the 92nd floor up.


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People were getting stuck in elevators as well.


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[11] Many people jumped out of windows because of the smoke and heat and died after falling to the ground or on the roofs of lower-lying buildings.


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According to an estimate by USA Today newspaper, there were at least two hundred jumpers.


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[45] People working in the tower had the mistaken impression that they could have been evacuated by helicopters, so some of those trapped tended to the roof.


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However, rescue flights were not part of evacuation plans and doors to roofs were locked.


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Helicopters would not have been able to land on roofs anyway because of the smoke, heat and equipment attached to the roof.


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[11] [46] Hundreds of police officers and rescue and health workers were also killed during rescue and extinguishing missions at the World Trade Center.


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The New York City Fire Department FDNY lost 341 firefighters and two paramedics.


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[47] The New York Police Department lost 23 and the Port Authority Police Department 37 police officers [48] [49].


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Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank that is one of the world's biggest players in its sector, lost the largest number of its employees of private companies, 658 lives.


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The company's premises were on floors 101 to 105 in the North Tower.


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[50] Marsh & McLennan, the insurance company, lost 355 and 175 employees [51], the insurance company Aon Corporation.


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In February 2005, authorities announced that just under 1600 of the victims at the World Trade Center had been able to be identified and identification work would be halted.


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About 1100 victims could not be identified and authorities are in possession of about 10,000 bone and tissue remains that have not been able to be linked to any individual.


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[52] The remains of the bodies were found during the demolition of the Deutsche Bank branch in September 2005 and further in September 2006 [53] [54] and summer 2010 [55].


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According to the New York Post, the furthest remains of the victims were found 346 feet away from the center of WTC Square.


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[56] In Arlington, 125 people were killed in the Pentagon building and 64 in hijacked aircraft [32].


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55 of the victims were army employees [57].


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In inquiries after the attack, the remains of the dead were found only on the first and second floors, but it is likely that in the collapsed area there have also been casualties on the upper floors.


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About a third died in the collision and another third in fires, and the cause of death for the rest was the combined effect of collision and fire.


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[21] In addition to the fatalities, 106 people were seriously injured [11].


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Material damage As a result of the attacks, the 110-story World Trade Center twin towers and the 47-story WTC 7 caved in.


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As the tower blocks caved in, plenty of parts fell from them, hitting the 22-story Marriott Hotel, or WTC 3.


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WTC 3 suffered severe damage and partially succumbed.


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WTC 4, WTC 5, and WTC 6 were also badly damaged by fires and parts of collapsed buildings, and their internal surface materials burned.


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Other buildings were also damaged around WTC Plaza.


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The water network was also damaged at several points in the WTC area.


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[58] Molten metal flowed in piles of debris from the collapsed WTC towers [59] One of the buildings outside the WTC, one of the Orthodox St. Nicholas Church was completely destroyed by fragments that hit it.


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Among the World Financial Center buildings, the American Express Building (WFC3) and Winter Garden were hardest hit.


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[60] The Deutsche Bank building on the other side of Liberty Street was so badly damaged that it was later demolished [61].


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The 15-story Fiterman Hall on West Broadway also suffered severe damage and was destroyed uninhabitable.


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It was decided to demolish it, and demolition finished in November 2009.


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[62] Located on the north and south sides of the WTC complex along West Street, the 1926 Art Deco style Verizon building and the 1907 neo-Gothic style 90 West Street were severely damaged, but both were restored by the end of the decade. [63] [64].


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According to a report by the Federal Emergency Management (FEMA), five buildings (WTC 1, 2, 3 and 7 and the Orthodox Church) and partially three (WTC4, 5, and 6) were completely caved in in the New York attacks.


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Eleven buildings received additional severe damage.


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The total number of buildings damaged or collapsed was 56.


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[65] Rescue efforts from the New York Fire Department (FDNY) arrived at the World Trade Center site with more than 200 units, half the strength of the department.


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More than 100 ambulances from emergency medical units also arrived at the scene, accounting for about 30 per cent of those available.


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Because the shift had just changed, many firefighters and paramedics who finished their shifts returned to their units.


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It was a complex situation and the fire department management was not entirely clear about who all were present.


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[66] The New York Police Department (NYPD) quickly deployed its Emergency Response (ESU) and helicopter units, as well as other police forces [67] to the scene.


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By 12 p.m., one-quarter of the NYPD's entire personnel were stationed at the WTC compound [68].


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The fire department and two different police departments were unable to establish a unified lead at the scene.


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Their command posts were located separate and were unable to convey to each other information that would have been vital to decision-making.


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For example, information relayed by NYPD helicopters that large portions of the South Tower were about to fall did not pass to fire department chiefs.


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[11] The command post established by the Fire Department had no senior police department chiefs, and there was very little contact between the senior chiefs of the Fire Department and the Police Department [69].


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Search operations failed to coordinate and often different units searched civilians in vain at the same targets [11].


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When the South Tower caved in, both the NYPD and the FDNY received word of it all at once.


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Contrary to popular perception helicopters could not anticipate the South Tower's cave-in, the NYPD did not evacuate its personnel before then.


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[11] The firefighters and chiefs in the North Tower still did not know exactly what was happening.


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The chief who was in the lobby of the north tower gave his subordinates the order to withdraw, but with radios malfunctioning, not all firefighters heard the orders.


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Many left the building only after hearing orders from other firefighters.


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The Supreme Chief of the Fire Department and several other chiefs were killed when the North Tower also caved in.


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The scene was briefly left without a commander.


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[70] Given that the situation was complicated, it is difficult to assess how much the lack of cooperation between the various institutions affected the course of the rescue effort.


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However, the commission's report said the lack of joint action did not decisively hamper the evacuation of civilians.


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With only 5.4% of casualties working below the impact point, the evacuation was very successful and the death toll remained much lower than it could have been.


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Rescue personnel carried the disabled people away from the towers, and firefighters rescued a crowd of people who had been trapped on the 22nd floor of the North Tower.


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In addition, the presence of firefighters and police reassured people, and there was no panicky mass exodus.


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Police officers directed people on ground floors and helped them exit buildings quickly along safe routes.


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[11] In hindsight, there has been much criticism of the failure of WTC security personnel to evacuate the South Tower immediately following the attack on the North Tower.


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No one could expect another strike and evacuating thousands of people was already inherently risky.


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Conditions, moreover, were dangerous in some areas outside the towers.


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Twelve minutes after the attack, however, police officers were ordered to evacuate the building.


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[11] In Arlington, county, state and federal authorities cooperate significantly more smoothly than in New York City.


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An official command system (Incident Command System) for emergencies was in place in the area, and many police and fire units had already operated together in regional events and exercises earlier.


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Conditions were also easier in Arlington.


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Only one strike was carried out there, the venue was easily cordoned off and there were no other buildings in the surrounding area.


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No rescue workers were injured there.


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[11] Terrorists and Their Motives Naming suspects After the attacks, the FBI was able to quickly name the suspected hijackers and also provide more details about many.


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Namely, the authorities gained possession of the suitcase of Mohammed Atta, who had not made it to the hijacked plane from a previous flight.


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The suitcase contained a Boeing 757 flight simulator-instructional video, a pick knife, pepper spray and papers that revealed the identities of all 19 hijackers and details of their plans, motives and backgrounds.


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[71] In addition, the passport of one of the hijackers was found near the WTC towers.


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[72] According to authorities, the National Security Agency NSA intercepted phone calls on the day of the attacks in which known Osama bin Laden supporters rejoiced in the attacks and said, “We have hit targets” [73].


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German intelligence officials also said they intercepted phone calls from bin Laden supporters giving details of the hijackers' plans [74].


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The day after the attacks, German, French and British intelligence officials said they suspected “strongly” that bin Laden was the culprit [75].


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Two days after the attacks, on 13 September, US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the prime suspect is Osama bin Laden [76].


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On the third day after the attacks, the names of the hijackers were made public and they were linked to bin Laden [54].


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On 15 September, President Bush declared the United States to be at war and named bin Laden as the prime suspect [77].


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On September 27, 2001, the FBI released the names, photos of all 19 hijackers, as well as information about their likely nationality, dates of birth, places of residence, and pseudonyms they used [78].


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Fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.


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The number of Saudi Arabians has been explained by the fact that the planners of the attacks would have deliberately wanted to damage US-Saudi relations.


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On the other hand, troubled Saudi Arabian youths were easy to recruit and got visas to the United States quickly.


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[79] The leader of the force was the Egyptian Mohammed Atta [80].


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Based on letters found in Atta's suitcase, it has been speculated that the hijackers have been psychologically maneuvered and influenced by religious mysticism, long prayers and other rituals that have led to self-suggestion.


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Opposing opinions have also been expressed: according to Jerrold Post, a professor of psychology at George Washington University, the hijackers were well-educated, mature adults with a history of strong religious beliefs.


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[81] Investigations into the FBI's attacks, codenamed “PENTTBOM”, were the most extensive and complex in FBI history, involving more than 7000 agents [82].


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According to Dale L. Watson, director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, the evidence linking Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to the attacks is “clear and irrefutable” [83].


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The British government also considers al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden to be responsible for the September attacks [84], on the basis of intelligence.


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However, bin Laden was not wanted for the attacks, despite being on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Persons list [85] [86].


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Al-Qaeda Al Qaeda was formed in 1989 when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan.


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The foundation of the organisation was a network of volunteer fighters who arrived in the country in the 1980s.


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They waged anti-Soviet holy war jihad and received funding from both the United States and Saudi Arabia.


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[87] Between 1985 and 1992, an estimated 12,500 foreigners received training in bomb making, sabotage and urban warfare in camps established with CIA assistance [88].


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It has been suspected that the CIA might have trained Osama bin Laden as well.


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In the early 1990s, al-Qaida was active in Sudan, but after 1996 the organization's headquarters and training camps were moved to Afghanistan, where bin Laden forged firm ties with the Taliban.


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[87] In 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwa.


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In it, he declared war on the Americans because they had troops in Saudi Arabia occupying a country with two Muslim holy cities.


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[89] According to former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, the 1996 fatwa amounted to a declaration of war by al-Qaeda on the United States [90].


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In 1998, another fatwa was declared, signed by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.


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It declared jihad against Western countries and Israel.


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Among other things, the fatwa declares that the killing of Americans and their allies is the personal duty of every Muslim in order to free holy mosques from their rule and their military to leave all Islamic countries.


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[91] [92] Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden initially denied any involvement in the attacks in a statement broadcast on 16 September 2001 by the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel [93].


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In December 2001, the U.S. government made public a videotape in which a right-handed figure resembling bin Laden rejoiced in the attacks and said he had known about them in advance.


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[94] Bin Laden was left-handed.


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[95] Authorities said the tape had been made in September in Kandahar.


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[96] In the same month, al-Jazeera posted a new video in which a person resembling bin Laden praised the terrorist attacks against the United States and called for strikes against the economy in particular.


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However, he did not say he was behind the attacks himself.


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[97] Four days before the U.S. presidential election, in October 2004, al-Jazeera broadcast a recording in which bin Laden admitted his involvement in the September 11 attacks.


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Al-Jazeera reported the tape originated in Pakistan and was deemed authentic by U.S. security officials.


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[98] [99] In the recording, bin Laden says, among other things: According to him, less damage would have come if Bush had acted faster.


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In September 2002, al-Jazeera broadcast an interview in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh detailed the planning of the attacks.


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According to what they reported, the attacks had been decided in early 1999 and bin Laden learned the exact date of September 6, 2001.


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[100] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed al-Jazeera journalist Yosri Fouda reported in April 2002 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted in an interview to his involvement in the “Holy Tuesday operation” along with Ramzi Binalshibh.


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“I am the chief of al Qaeda's military committee, and Ramzi is the mastermind of the Holy Tuesday operation.


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Yes, we did it.” [6] The Commission report calls Mohammed as the “chief architect” of the attacks [101].


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He was captured by Pakistani security officials in March 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan [102].


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Mohammed confessed in March 2007 under questioning by US authorities that he was responsible for the September 11 attacks “from beginning to end.”


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He claimed to have been tortured after his arrest, but said he nevertheless made a confession without being coerced or pressured.


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[103] [104] Kenneth Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, has questioned the legality of closed-door interrogation and confession and considers it possible that the confession was obtained by torture [104].


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The CIA has admitted to using waterboarding in the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [105].


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According to a memo published in 2009, Mohammed was tortured by “water treatment” 183 times and another suspect Abu Zubaydah 83 times [106].


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A military tribunal trial was held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in June 2008, in addition to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four other al-Qaeda members: Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Walid Bin Attash.


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Mohammed referred to the trial as an “inquisition” and refused counsel.


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On hearing that he could be sentenced to the death penalty, he replied: “That's exactly what I want, I have long wanted to be martyred.” [107] In November 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Mohammed and four other defendants would be transferred out of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, so they could participate in a civil trial in New York.


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However, no precise date was given for the trial.


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Holder believed prosecutors would come to demand the death sentence for all defendants, and the trial would be equitable and “open both to the public and the world at large.”


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[108] In January 2010, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that Mohammad would likely be sentenced to death and executed.


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His testimony has alarmed legal experts, who think the testimony has compromised the fairness of the trial.


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[109] Motive In addition to the 1996 and 1998 fatwas, Osama bin Laden has detailed his motives in his 2002 letter to the Americans published on the internet.


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In the letter, he briefly replies that he is fighting the Americans because “you have attacked and are still attacking us.”


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As examples, he cites the occupation of Palestine, the creation of the state of Israel, and attacks on Muslims by or supported by Americans in Somalia, Chechnya, Kashmir and Lebanon.


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He also blames the United States for the fact that 1.5 million children have died in Iraq as a result of economic sanctions.


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[110] Osama has also cited as one of the main reasons that the United States had kept its forces in Saudi Arabia since the 1991 Gulf War [111].


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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed studied in the United States in the 1980s and is not known then to have shown any hostility towards the country [112].


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According to the Commission's report, his hostile stance is motivated by US policies favoring Israel [113].


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Mohammed Atta, too, was very critical of US policy, viewing the UN as a partisan organization that has never acted against the United States or Israel.


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He grew most agitated, according to his acquaintance during his studies, on two subjects: the Yugoslav civil war, which he felt was being fought specifically against Muslims, and American influence in the Middle East.


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[114] Hijacker Abdulaziz Alomari said his actions told the “infidels” that “you should leave the Arabian Peninsula, defeated, and stop supporting the poor Jews in Palestine” [115].


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According to American Middle East scholar Michael Scott Doran, Osama bin Laden's ultimate goal was for US retaliation to unite Muslims against the West, raise revolutions in Arab states and promote radical Islam.


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[116] Planning the attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has said during questioning that he first raised the idea of strikes with hijacked aircraft to Osama bin Laden in 1996.


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Mohammed's plan was to hijack ten planes, five on the east coast of the United States and five off the west coast, but bin Laden did not think the idea was viable.


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[117] By then bin Laden had returned from Sudan back to Afghanistan and was focused on strengthening his position there.


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According to Mohammed, it was not until the 1998 East African embassy bombings that demonstrated that bin Laden really wanted to attack the United States, and they were a turning point in the planning of the September 11 attacks.


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[101] At the end of 1998 or early the following year, Bin Laden gave Mohammed permission to continue planning attacks, and in March April he told Mohammed in Kandahar that al-Qaeda would support the plan. [101].


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In the spring of 1999, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden and his subordinate Mohammed Atef met several times in Kandahar and discussed the plan.


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Mohammed's original plan also included the idea of making a statement to the media about one of the hijacked aircraft, but the idea was dropped.


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Mohammed, bin Laden and Atef jointly chose the targets for the attacks, which were the White House, the Capitol, the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.


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[101] Bin Laden led the plans, gave financial support and was in the process of selecting the perpetrators.


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[118] Bin Laden first selected Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, both of whom were experienced jihad warriors and had fought in Bosnia.


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Hazmi and Mihdhar arrived in the United States in January 2000 after attending an al Qaeda rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before that.


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In the spring of 2000, Hazmi and Mihdhar took flying lessons in San Diego, California.


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They knew English only a little, so didn't excel in flying lessons.


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After all, they only serve as sidekicks.


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[119] [120] from Hamburg arrived in Afghanistan at the end of 1999, a group of men including Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi Binalshibh.


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[121] Bin Laden chose the men to carry out the plan because they were educated, spoke English and had lived in the West.


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[122] New aspirants were searched on the basis of special abilities, whereby al-Qaeda leaders also found Hani Hanjour, who already had a pilot's license.


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[123] Hanjour arrived in San Diego on 8 December 2000 and joined Hamzi.


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They soon left for Arizona, where Hanjour was still receiving refresher training.


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Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in the United States at the end of May, Atta on 3 June and Jarrah on 27 June 2000.


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Binalshibh applied several times for a visa to enter the United States, but it was not granted because he was a Yemenite and was feared to remain in the country as an illegal immigrant.


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Binalshibh remained in Hamburg and acted as an intermediary between Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.


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The other three Hamburg cell members received flight instruction in South Florida.


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The hijackers' sidekicks began arriving in the United States in spring 2001.


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[124] In July 2001, Atta met with Binalshibh in Spain, and they discussed in secret the details of the plan, including the selection of final sites.


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Binalshibh also conveyed bin Laden's wish that attacks should take place as soon as possible.


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[125] Consequences of the attack Immediately after the incident, the United States and many other countries imposed security measures to prevent further attacks.


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Traffic in New York City was shut down immediately after the attacks, and a total ban on civil aviation was declared in the United States until September 13.


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A similar restriction was also imposed in London.


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As the US closed its airspace from Europe and Asia, about 500 flights were heading to North America, with planes no more than halfway around turning back.


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Of the rest, some were directed to fields in Mexico and the majority, some 239 planes, to Canadian fields.


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The Canadian Federal Aviation Administration launched an emergency program, Operation Yellow Ribbon, to coordinate the control of planes for fifteen fields around the country.


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In total, more than 33,000 passengers arrived in Canadian fields.


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[126] Subsequently, travel regulations to the United States were permanently tightened, especially with regard to air transport.


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The attacks had significant political consequences.


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Several countries toughened anti-terrorism laws even so drastically that the actions of the authorities were seen as restricting civil rights.


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The US government considerably tightened its attitude towards groups accused of terrorism and the governments that support them.


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Shortly after the attacks, the hastily prepared Patriot Act was passed in the United States, giving authorities the right to detain an alien person presumed to be a national threat indefinitely without trial or rights.


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This allows Taliban and al-Qaida suspects to be held in Cuba at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.


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Domestically, a whole new federal ministry, the Department of Homeland Security, was created for security oversight.


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The most significant U.S. response to the attacks was President Bush's declaration of the War on Terror, which included the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001.


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Criticism of official investigations, Thomas H. Kane, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission and former governor of New Jersey, as well as Lee H. Hamilton, vice chairman of the commission, have said in his book Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission that some information was withheld from the commission and their investigations were hampered on some issues including by the White House and various authorities.


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The White House said the independent commission's investigation interfered with the then-ongoing congressional investigation and the ongoing war on terror to justify the commission's various difficulties in conducting investigations.


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Former New Jersey public prosecutor John Farmer Jr., who also served as a senior adviser to the 9/11 Commission.


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has witnessed the same thing in terms of concealing and covering up facts related to the attacks.


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In his book The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America's Defense on 9/11, Farmer Jr.


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told The Washington Post in an interview in 2006 that one is “shocked at how much the right truth differed from what was told to the public.”


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This he justifies, among other things, with recordings from NORAD, whose contents differ from what is officially narrated.


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However, all the men were ultimately quite happy with the commission's final report.


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[127] [128] [129] Investigations of suspected financial crimes related to the attacks Shortly after the attacks, the media began reporting suspicions of insider dealing, and investigations were launched on three continents.


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[130] The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also began investigating unconventional trading in stocks affected by the attacks.


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[131] The financial audit listed 38 companies, including United Airlines and American Airlines, whose shares were traded unusually vigorously in the weeks leading up to the attacks, suggesting that some buyers and sellers had prior knowledge of terrorist attacks.


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Financial Audit Chairman Harvey Pitt told Congress that the investigation was the financial audit's “highest priority.”


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[132] In December 2001 and early 2002, media reported extensively on an operation by the German firm Convar, in which damaged hard drives recovered from the WTC rubble were sought to recover data.


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[133] Peter Henschel, the executive director of the company, pointed out that research was being done to some American entities cooperating with the FBI.


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Mr Henschel said the investigation was based on suspicions that criminals had exploited both inside information about the attacks and the chaos of the attacks in their money transfers.


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[134] [135] According to Convar 11:.


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Criminal money transfers worth more than $100 million could be made on September.


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According to Germany's ZDF television channel, by March 2002, Convar had managed to recover data from several hundred hard drives.


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In its memo, “FBI Briefing on Stock Trades,” however, the 9/11 Commission referred to FBI agents it interviewed on October 18, 2003, who had no knowledge of the data recovery operation discussed in the media.


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According to the commission memo, a New York agent who was present stated that any hard drive would have been highly unlikely to remain recoverable.


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[136] [137] In 2004, the Commission concluded in its report that “thorough investigations” by the Financial Audit, the FBI and others did not reveal evidence that anyone with prior knowledge of the attacks benefited from stock trading.


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The commission clarified that sentence with a footnote stating that “unusual trading” had indeed taken place, but that all share trades had an innocent explanation, including trades on United Airlines and American Airlines.


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[138] In its report, the Commission did not return to the WTC hard drive data recovery operation.


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In 2006, Allen Poteshman, an economics professor at the University of Illinois, published an analysis of pre-strike stock trades involving airlines.


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[139] This peer-reviewed study, published by California University Press, concluded that the unusually high number of long-term put options slightly before strikes was indicative of the prior knowledge of future shocks by investors in the options market.


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A group of Swiss economics experts published a study in January 2010 that found investors had obvious prior knowledge of shocks in at least 13 trades.


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[140] In April 2010, an international group of economic experts showed that there was a significant spike in trading volumes in the options market just before the September 11th attacks.


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The team attributed the findings to suggest that some quarters had inside knowledge of impending strikes.


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[141] Alternative Views on 9/11 Terrorism The 9/11 truth movement holds that those behind 9/11 were representatives of the US administration who wanted to carry out the attacks to gain a reason for, for example, starting new wars.


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According to the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth group of the Truth movement, the destruction of the WTC towers, especially WTC7, filled several signs of blasting plume but no signs of cave-in due to fire.


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[142] However, the official investigation ignored any investigation referring to explosives and offered only an explanation based on fires, which they nevertheless considered an unlikely course of events.


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[143] As the most aggravating reason for suspecting the regime, the truth movement site 911truth.org, in turn, considers the driving down of air defenses, foreknowledge related to the attacks, and an attempt to cover up evidence suggesting administration involvement.


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[144] Subject in the media There have been a number of films about the event, for example Paul Greengrass's United 93, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, Peter Markle's Flight 93 and Stephen Daldry's Extremely Strength and Incredibly Close and also dozens of documentary films on conspiracy, for example 9 /11: Blueprint for Truth, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, 9/11 Mysteries, 9/11: The Falling Man, 9/11 Press for Truth and 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Out.


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The film's screenplay was done by Trevorrow along with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Derek Connolly, and starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.


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Plot 22 years after the Jurassic Park incident, a fully functioning dinosaur theme park Jurassic World has been built on Isla Nublar.


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Brothers Zach (Nick Robinson) and Gray Mitchell (Ty Simpkins) leave for the island to visit their aunt Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), who is the park's operations manager.


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Masrani asks Owen to evaluate the paddock of the Indominus rex before opening the attraction to the public.


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Zach and Gray disorient Zara to explore the park on their own and instead of listening to an evacuation order, they head with a gyroball to a forbidden area.


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The Indominus attacks them, but they get away.


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The boys find the original Jurassic Park visitor center and after repairing the jeep they found there, they return to the resort area.


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Following them, Owen and Claire also get away from the Indominus.


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Hoskins tells Dr. Wu to take the dinosaur embryos by helicopter away from the island to protect the research.


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Eventually, the park is evacuated and the island is abandoned in the possession of dinosaurs.


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Production Pre-production Pre-production of the film began shortly after the completion of Jurassic Park III and the tentative premiere was set for 2003.


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[1] In June 2001, Johnston said that Spielberg is creating a new Jurassic Park story, and he himself is not involved in it.


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Question: Who directed the film Jurassic Park part one?

Jurassic World

[3] In April 2005, Winston announced that the project was on ice as none of the scripts were to Spielberg's liking.