President Barack Obama pauses for a moment of silence during a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Va., Sept. 11, 2014. Terrorists hijacked four passenger aircraft Sept. 11, 2001. Two of the aircraft were deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center in New York; one was crashed into the Pentagon; the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pa. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks.