World Trade Center Attack
"The Second Day of Infamy"
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The FBI, which has personnel at airports and crash sites investigating who is responsible for the crashes, is operating on the assumption that each flight was hijacked, federal officials said.
No credible group has claimed responsibility for any of the events Tuesday, officials said.
American Airlines reported two jetliners lost in "tragic incidents":
· Flight 11, flying from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, had 81 passengers, nine crew members and two pilots aboard. The Boeing 767 is believed to have been one of the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City.
· Flight 77, flying from Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, had 58 passengers, four crew members and two pilots. It was a Boeing 757, and crashed into the Pentagon.
The other two planes were United Airlines airliners:
· Flight 93, flying from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The plane, also a Boeing 757, held 38 passengers, five crew members and two pilots. Initial reports indicated no survivors.
· Flight 175, from Boston to Los Angeles, contained 56 passengers, seven crew members and two pilots. This plane crashed into the second World Trade Center tower.
Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, an emergency dispatcher received a cell phone call at 9:58 a.m. from a man who said he was a passenger locked in a bathroom aboard United Flight 93, said dispatch supervisor Glenn Cramer in neighboring Westmoreland County. The man repeatedly told officials the call was not a hoax.
"We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Cramer quoted the man from a transcript of the call.
The man told dispatchers the plane "was going down. He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane and we lost contact with him," Cramer said.
Flight 93 crashed about 10 a.m. about 8 miles east of Jennerstown, according to officials at the scene.
"There's a crater gorged in the earth, the plane is pretty much disintegrated. There's nothing left but scorched trees," said Mark Stahl of Somerset who went to the scene.
He described the area as a former strip mine that is now a grassy field edged by woods. The plane came down near the tree line, he said.
Michael R. Merringer was out on a mountain bike ride with his wife, Amy, about two miles away from the crash site.
"I heard the engine gun two different times and then I heard a loud bang and the windows of the houses all around rattled," Merringer said. "I looked up and I saw the smoke coming up."
The couple rushed home and drove near the scene.
"Everything was on fire and there was trees knocked down and there was a big hole in the ground," he said.
United said Flight 93 left Newark at 8:01 a.m. with 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants.
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Boeing 767
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• 767-200ER: This model seats 224 passengers in two classes; 181 passengers under a three-class configuration. • 767-300ER: This model seats 269 in two classes and 218 in three classes and has a range capability of 6,115 nautical miles; • 767-400ER: Seats 304 passengers in two classes, or 245 passengers in a three-class configuration with a range of up to 5,645 nautical miles. • More than 26 airlines use the 767. The Boeing 767 twinjet is the most widely used plane across the Atlantic, according to Boeing. Depending on its configuration, a 767 can seat up to 375 passengers in its largest version, the 767-400ER, which went into service last year. Maximum cruising speed of the 767s is Mach 0.80, or about 530 mph at its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The first 767 went into service on September 8, 1982. |
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Passengers Maximum Fuel Capacity: 11,276 gal (42,680 l) The Boeing 757, depending on configuration, can seat up to 239 passengers
(757-200) or 289 passengers (757-300). Maximum cruising speed is Mach
0.80, or about 530 mph at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The first
767-300 was put into service in March 1999. |
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Boeing 757
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