9/11

right|250x250px|CNN making a live report during the September 11 attacks. 
The September 11, 2001 attacks occurred in New York City, Manhattan where Al-Qaeda hijacked 4 airplanes. It was the worst crisis involving the United States since the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Approximately 2,996 people died during the terrorist attacks, including first responders. 
==Overview==
On September 11, 2001, at 8:46 a.m., Al Qaeda suicide hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the northern facade of the North Tower. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., a second team of hijackers crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, which collapsed at 9:59 a.m. At 10:28 a.m., the North Tower collapsed. At 5:20 p.m., 7 World Trade Center collapsed. The four remaining buildings in the WTC plaza sustained heavy damage from debris, and were ultimately demolished.
At the time of the incident, media reports suggested that tens of thousands might have been killed in the massacre, as on any given day upwards of 100,000 people could be inside the towers. Ultimately, 2,749 death certificates were filed relating to the 9/11 attacks, as of February 2005. Of these, 1,588 (58 percent) were forensically identified from recovered physical remains.
For the following eight and a half months, the World Trade Center site cleanup and recovery continued 24 hours a day and involved thousands of workers. The massive pile of debris smoked and smoldered for 99 days.
Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, with approximately 2,500 employees in the South Tower and 1,000 in the North Tower.
Category:2001
Category:Disasters in the United States
Category:American History & Government
Category:21st century terror
Category:New York