In Pictures: Remembering 9/11, 20 years on

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Collapse of the South Tower in high resolution.

 

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Rare aerial photo in high resolution during construction of the World Trade Center giving you a scale of how massive the towers were.

Construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower began in August 1968, and the South Tower in 1969. Extensive use of prefabricated components helped to speed up the construction process. The first tenants moved into the North Tower in December 1970 and into the South Tower in January 1972. Four other low-level buildings were constructed as part of the World Trade Center in the early 1970s, and the complex was mostly complete by 1973. The seventh and final building 7 World Trade Center was opened in 1987.

A little known fact is that 60 workers were killed in construction accidents while the World Trade Center was being built.

 

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Timeline of events on 9/11​

5:45 a.m. - Hijackers pass through security in Portland, Maine, and board a flight to Boston, where they connect to American Airlines Flight 11.

6 a.m. - Polling stations open, as September 11 was a primary election day in New York City.

7:59 a.m. - Flight 11 takes off from Boston for Los Angeles. Eleven crew members, 76 passengers, and five hijackers are on board.



8:24 a.m.: Radio transmissions unintentionally broadcast to air traffic control by hijacker Mohamed Atta.“We have some planes. Just stay quiet, and you’ll be okay. We are returning to the airport.”

8:37 a.m. - Boston air traffic control alerts the military. Air National Guard jets in Massachusetts are mobilized to follow Flight 11.

8:42 a.m. San Francisco-bound United Airlines Flight 93 takes off at Newark following a delay. Seven crew members, 33 passengers, and four hijackers are on board.

8:46 a.m. - Flight 11 crashes into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower.

8:50 a.m. - President George W. Bush is alerted. His advisors assume this is a tragic accident.

8:55 a.m. - The South Tower is declared secure.

8:59 a.m. - Port Authority police order the evacuation of both towers. A minute later, the order is expanded to the entire World Trade Center complex.

9 a.m. - A flight attendant aboard Flight 175 alerts air traffic control that a hijacking is underway.

9:03 a.m. - Flight 175 crashes into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower.

9:05 a.m. - President Bush learns that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Twenty-five minutes later, he addresses Americans, saying that "terrorism against our nation will not stand."

9:05 a.m. - Flight 77 passenger Barbara Olson calls her husband, U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who alerts other federal officials of the hijacking.

9:36 a.m. - Secret Service agents evacuate Vice President Dick Cheney to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center beneath the White House.

9:37 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. The crash and fire kill 59 on the plane and 125 on the ground.

9:42 a.m. - The FAA grounds all flights.

9:45 a.m. - The White House and U.S. Capitol are evacuated.

9:59 a.m. - The South Tower collapses in 10 seconds after burning for 56 minutes. More than 800 people in and around the building are killed.

10:03 a.m. - United Airlines Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers and crew storm the cockpit. Forty people on board, excluding the hijackers, perish.

10:15 a.m. - The Pentagon's outer ring collapses.

10:28 a.m. - The North Tower collapses after burning for 102 minutes. More than 1,600 in and around the building are killed.

11:02 a.m. - New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani orders the evacuation of Lower Manhattan.

12:16 p.m. - The last flight still in the air above the continental United States lands.

12:30 p.m. - A group of 14 survivors emerge from a North Tower stairwell.

3 p.m. - A survivor, Pasquale Buzzelli, is rescued from the rubble of the North Tower.

5:20 p.m. - After burning for hours, 7 World Trade Center collapses, There are no casualties.

8:30 p.m. - President Bush addresses the nation from the White House, assuring Americans that a search is underway for "those who are behind these evil acts."

10:30 p.m. - Rescuers locate and extract two PAPD officers injured but alive in debris of the World Trade Center.

 

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President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001, at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida.

 

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Early morning in Staten Island during the 1980s with the Twin Towers in the background. Amazing picture the colours and the tone are truly spectacular. Image courtesy of Janet Delaney who snapped this shot during her job in a San Francisco photography lab which involved taking last-minute flights to New York as a courier.

 

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N.J. Burkett reporting as South Tower begin to collapse on September 11, 2001​

20 years later N.J. Burkett reflects on being on-air when the South Tower collapsed​

 

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Link to massive album of rare ground zero cleanup photos:

Ground Zero Photographs (September-October 2001)

Questions about rights or reprints to gzphotos@textfiles.com

www.flickr.com

 

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Bodies of people who fell from the North Tower.

 

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Pedestrians in lower Manhattan watch smoke billow from New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.

A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center as another clings to the outside, left, while smoke and fire billow from the building.

Thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center was.

Fire and smoke billows from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center.

Smoke billows through buildings in Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn after the collapse of New York's World Trade Center.

Pedestrians on Pierrepont Place in the Brooklyn borough of New York, watch as smoke billows from the remains of the World Trade Center in New York.

Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts, of the World Trade Center in New York.

People walk over New York's Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn following the collapse of both World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

 

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If you zoom on the North Tower photos close enough you can see that some of the people who fell or jumped had horrific burns on their bodies with clothes in some parts completely burnt off.

Dozens more can be seen hanging out the windows of the North Tower.

 

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New video has emerged of United Airlines Flight 175 hitting the South Tower.