That day two passenger aircraft Before the eyes of millions of television viewers, a Boeing 747 crashed into two high-rise buildings of a shopping center with a short interval, and after a while these towers folded like houses of cards and collapsed. Against the background of this, the fact of the destruction of a smaller third high-rise building standing next to them, into which no plane crashed, but which also remained only a mountain of debris, went almost unnoticed.
No one really knows how many people died there. The building's collapse was not shown on television, but some television programs did show the wreckage. It can be assumed that another passenger airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania was intended for him, but did not reach its target.
Despite this, the third high-rise was blown up under the noise of the disaster with the twin towers. The media tried to “forget” the destruction of this building and not advertise it against the background of the general tragedy. It is therefore not surprising that the responses of New Yorkers to the question about the third destroyed building were discouraging, with almost none of those surveyed able to give any clear answer on this matter.
This is how an information war is waged, the necessary information is literally hammered into the heads of ordinary people, and “inconvenient” facts are hushed up or distorted. The more monstrous a lie is, the more difficult it is to refute it.
The American media had the same attitude towards an alleged plane attack on the Pentagon building, the consequences of which were shown only from afar. And, nevertheless, many noticed that there were no debris of any aircraft at the scene of destruction (chassis, tail of the aircraft, etc.). Moreover, this blow damaged only that part of the building where, by chance (!?) repairs were being carried out and there were no people.
Some analysts make the assumption that this strike was caused by... an American cruise missile, the size of the destruction corresponds to the power of its charge, and there was practically no debris left from it.
Another aspect of this disaster is striking. Her episodes were professionally filmed from the most spectacular angles. It seems that someone placed cameras in the most important places in advance and directly supervised the filming.
The events of September 11 immediately raised many questions among various specialists: professional pilots, civil engineers, aviation accident investigators, and explosives experts.
In particular, many pilots noted that it was impossible to fly huge aircraft with such precision to individual objects, even very large ones, in big city It is simply not possible without automatic guidance devices and precise navigation equipment. Moreover, at the helm of these planes there were supposedly people who had completed only short-term courses in driving small planes, and not such giants as the Boeing 747, the cockpit of which has a huge number of instruments.
Civil engineers and designers of these buildings noted that the high-rise buildings had a large margin of safety and could withstand the impact of more than one aircraft of this type. And indeed, the buildings did not even shake from the plane strike and stood in place for almost an hour.
The assessments of explosives specialists deserve special attention. They believe that the destruction of the towers (and especially the third high-rise) was carried out using industrial blasting technologies.
Now even Russian television shows, for comparison, episodes of industrial explosions of large buildings against the backdrop of the collapsing twin towers. There are no differences in the form of destruction. This means that these high-rise buildings were mined in advance, long before September 11. The planes were used only as cover to blow them up.
Within a few days after the disaster (how fast is that!?), American intelligence agencies arrested 18 people who were accused of preparing and participating in a terrorist act. Of these, 14 people were citizens Saudi Arabia. But the United States made a scapegoat primarily of the Iraqis and their leader Saddam Hussein. This terrorist attack was the reason for the attack on Iraq, and subsequently on Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria has become the next victim. In fact, the US administration used this disaster (and most likely organized it) to launch a struggle for world domination.
This event also has a financial background, which not everyone can see, since information about this side of the matter rarely becomes a topic for discussion in the open press.
For example, the owner of these high-rise buildings insured both buildings for an astronomical amount of $3.6 billion. In this case, a separate line was provided for the case of a terrorist act. Since the terrorist attack occurred against both buildings at once, the owner tried to present it as two separate incidents and tried to “fool” the insurance company with double the amount - $7.2 billion. There were no fools there, and, in the end, the parties agreed on an amount of 4.6 billion dollars.
The mystery was the fate of 3,800 gold bars with a total weight of 12 tons and a value of $100 million, as well as silver worth $120.7 million, stored in the basement of one of the high-rise buildings.
After sorting through the rubble, neither gold nor silver was found there. There is no doubt that the owners took care to remove them before the terrorist attack. And this indicates that the preparation for it was not such a big secret for some.
But the most important events on the financial front began on September 17, when Wall Street experienced a major collapse in stock prices by 685 points, which led to the bankruptcy of a number of large companies.
Under these conditions, oil prices rose sharply, many investors began to invest money in shares of oil companies and fields, mainly owned by Saudi Arabia. It turns out that it was not in vain that the citizens of this country took such an active part in the preparation of the terrorist attack. We can say that golden rain fell on the heads of the Arab sheikhs. At the same time, investors from the United States, who invested their funds in these industries of Saudi Arabia shortly before the tragic events, received their share, and not a small one. “To whom is war, and to whom mother is dear,” says the proverb.
So it turns out that the events of September 11 can be considered as a brilliant scam in which the political ambitions of the American administration to gain world domination, as well as the interests of American financial oligarchs and Arab sheikhs, are intertwined.
The official version of the September 11 terrorist attacks, which led to the death of almost 3 thousand people, the destruction of three skyscrapers in Manhattan, including the two famous twin towers, as well as part of the Pentagon, and which gave a new direction to world history, is striking in its absurdity.
It turns out that in a security-obsessed country with about 20 intelligence agencies - about one for each of the 19 Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the attacks - they were able to do what they allegedly did. Namely, having only the basics of flight training, they can brilliantly ram targets almost simultaneously captured by airliners that are beyond the capabilities of even experienced pilots, acting under the leadership of the bearded terrorist Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in a cave in Afghanistan. All this, like all other points of the official version, which we will consider in more detail below, completely contradicts common sense.
Official version
The official version is this. Since it is widely known, we will only dwell on it briefly. Terrorists from the al-Qaeda group banned in Russia and other countries of the world, many of whom were known to the CIA, mostly Saudi citizens, legally entered the United States. They easily hijacked four passenger airliners, two of which flew into the World Trade Center (WTC) towers, one into the Pentagon, and another crashed under strange circumstances in Pennsylvania. In the latter case, passengers allegedly resisted by “democratically voting” to repel the hijackers. At the same time, the World Trade Center 7 tower, which no one crashed into, and which the BBC television company collapsed live on air 20 minutes before it happened, also mysteriously collapsed in Manhattan. When correspondent Jane Standley was reporting on this and the victims of the new terrorist attack, WTC 7 was still looming behind her, and the caption at the bottom of the screen already read: “The 47-story Salomon Brothers building next to the World Trade Center also collapsed.” Anyone can check out this amazing report on YouTube...
A problem emerged: the BBC reported the collapse of WTC 7 20 minutes before it happened. Photo: FA Bobo/PIXSELL/PA Images/TASS
The mass of inconsistencies and lies surrounding the September 11 attacks leave Americans with very little choice. The dilemma here is simple. On the one hand, you need to turn off your reason and believe in the official version or pretend to believe it if you are a “patriot” of your country and do not want it to suffer reputational damage or expose its leadership, without whose sanction such large-scale terrorist attacks would simply be impossible. It is very difficult to live with the awareness of this, and it is beyond the strength of the conformist majority. The second position is accessible only to a minority who are not afraid to go crazy in the face of the truth and despise accusations of “conspiracy theories.” This position, which is held by many Americans and others, requires recognizing that bin Laden and his people are nothing more than decoration, since terrorist attacks of such a scale could only be organized by the American intelligence services themselves, with the assistance of politicians and the media.
But we are not Americans. We are patriots of Russia, not the USA, and therefore our hands are free. Since the official American version is completely unsatisfactory and does not explain anything, let’s turn to the “conspiracy theorists.” If we put aside fantastic versions, such as a mini-nuclear explosion under the Twin Towers, probably launched at the instigation of the American authorities in order to compromise all others, then the following picture emerges.
Performers
Al-Qaeda terrorists, many of whom were known to the CIA, legally entered the United States and went on terrorist attacks, taking their passports with them. Only a few of them had the skills to fly light aircraft. Under no circumstances could they replace pilots of civil airliners, especially at high speed “get” into the twin towers hidden in urban areas - among other skyscrapers, fly at a height of several meters on the ground, without damaging anything along the route, and ram the Pentagon.
The American authorities immediately began to blame the leader of Al-Qaeda for the incident, although it was obvious that this was a surprise for Osama bin Laden; he did not immediately allow himself to be persuaded to take responsibility for this on himself and his semi-virtual group. And he can be understood: it is impossible for a person in his right mind to believe the official version. Therefore, bin Laden delayed for a long time and took responsibility for the September 11 attacks only on October 29, 2004.
What really happened? In fact, most likely, American intelligence agencies deliberately allowed terrorists into the country, who were probably actually plotting terrorist attacks using aircraft. They were needed as cover. The fact that the terrorists boarded the airliners, leaving their passports in the cars, most likely suggests that they were conducting training, deciding to see how best to act once they learned to fly the planes. Or the planes that rammed the Pentagon and the Twin Towers... there was no such thing, and that means this whole passport story didn’t exist.
Aircraft
Indeed, was there a boy? Eyewitnesses to the attacks in New York on the morning of September 11 give conflicting accounts of what hit the Twin Towers. Some say they saw or heard noise from small planes flying over, some believe they saw missiles, others believe they saw large airliners. The latter will probably evaluate their experience retrospectively, having watched well-known footage on TV many times. Meanwhile, as has been proven, large planes They simply couldn’t hit the World Trade Center skyscrapers without colliding with a couple of other skyscrapers along the way. From the air and at the speed at which they had to fly, even very experienced pilots would not have been able to accurately “hit” the targets. A legitimate question also arises: where did the wreckage of the planes go? The engine of one of them, which was later “found” in the wreckage of one of the collapsed buildings, turned out to be from a different type of plane than the one that allegedly rammed it. As for the Pentagon, independent researchers have discovered that the affected area in the wing of the building where the Boeing allegedly landed is noticeably smaller than the span of its wings. The penetration area is not as deep as it should be. There was no tail left of the plane, no corpses or suitcases of passengers... Evaporated?
Also amazing are the famous shots of an airliner made of aluminum, which barely survives a bird strike, going like a knife through butter into the steel structure of the World Trade Center buildings, so that the tip of its nose is even visible on the other side of the skyscraper! Calls from airliners that their passengers allegedly made from their own phones were also completely unthinkable. mobile phones. At the height from which they were made, it was technically impossible...
What really happened? It is clear that no airliners crashed into the twin towers in New York or the Pentagon near Washington. Most likely, we were talking about cruise missiles that could avoid obstacles, which were helped by “beacons” installed on buildings. Everything else is a crude imitation.
The most interesting question here, to which there is no clear answer yet, is where did the people who were allegedly on the planes go? There weren’t really that many of them, since, as “conspiracy theorists” established, at least two of the planes that allegedly took part in the terrorist attacks were already written off at that time and could not be used on September 11th. But where did those who were not originally “dead souls” go? They were killed, they had plastic surgery and were moved to the other side of the country or abroad? Who knows.
Building
Everything is clear with the Pentagon - everything was organized there by the military and special services themselves, no civilian firefighters were allowed there even close. Whether there was one cruise missile there or whether it was “helped” with the help of charges installed in the wing of the building that was being repaired is not so important. The consequences of the incident were quickly eliminated, no one washed dirty linen in public - military people are serious, they know how to keep their mouths shut.
The main intrigue is with New York skyscrapers. They seemed to be collapsing before our eyes, live. But this shouldn’t have happened - they were built taking into account exactly what allegedly happened to them. Instead, the “twins” collapsed, settling inward at the speed of free fall, as if someone had “cut down” all the supporting structures at once.
The current US President Donald Trump, a construction magnate himself, “hot on the heels” did not believe that planes could bring down the twin towers. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
What really happened? The Association of American Engineers and even future US President Donald Trump, himself a construction magnate, have long argued that the buildings should not have perished, they should have withstood the plane's impact. Trump thought so “hot on the heels” - now, of course, he is pretending that this was a terrorist attack. But engineers with professional knowledge capable of uncovering deception have only strengthened their opinion. In addition, in 2009, an international group of researchers published an article in the journal Open Chemical Physics on the results of a chemical analysis of the WTC debris, where fragments of thermite, a super-flammable substance that burns through steel, were identified. Its melting point is about 1500 degrees, while the combustion temperature of aviation fuel is only about 1000 degrees... Only in this case was it possible, as they say official version, the loss of buildings as a result of “weakening of the steel frame during a fire, combined with damage caused by aircraft.”
The “controlled demolition” that actually took place was caused by a series of explosions at key, most vulnerable points of the skyscrapers, as a result of which they “collapsed” in clouds of dust, which is what always happens in such cases. Firefighters and other people nearby heard the explosions. Recordings of the voices of those standing in a cordon near the WTC-7 building have been preserved, saying that this skyscraper will soon be blown up. However, there was a little delay in this matter, which is why the BBC reported about it earlier than necessary. There is footage on YouTube of this building collapsing - a typical directed explosion.
There is a lot of other evidence that this is a deliberate provocation organized by the American authorities themselves. Even if there was ten times less evidence, it would be enough for an unbiased court to give an unequivocal verdict: guilty. Let us briefly note just one of them - not a single bigwig was killed during the terrorist attacks in New York. The victims of the terrorist attacks were mainly maintenance workers, service employees, firefighters, who, by the way, began to be brought to the financial capital of the United States several days before the terrorist attacks from other parts of the country... There is evidence that important meetings in the area of future terrorist attacks were canceled in advance, some valuable employees unexpectedly they offered not to go to work on September 11...
Media involvement
It is clear that such a grandiose hoax would have been impossible without the involvement and involvement of leading American federal television channels. According to independent researchers, they received blanks in advance depicting future terrorist attacks in New York, which they each processed in their own style. And planes crashing into skyscrapers, according to Cambridge University physicist John Wyndham, is the most common hologram. That’s why they entered skyscrapers made of super-strong steel without being destroyed, like a knife through butter, and even in one case pierced the building with their nose. It seems that the media were developing technologies for creating an artificial reality - the very thing that America struggles with today, like a fly caught in a web.
Photo: www.globallookpress.com
Why and who needed this?
The answer to the question why this was necessary lies on the surface. The terrorist attacks of September 11 became for the US ruling circles the “new Pearl Harbor” that they had long dreamed of. They buried international law and, instead of the self-dissolved USSR, created a new enemy for Washington in the face of “international terrorism,” which was allowed to be fought throughout the world. Already on October 7, 2001, the Americans invaded Afghanistan to “punish the terrorists,” having achieved, on the wave of international sympathy for the victims of the tragedy, in particular, Russia’s consent to organize its military bases in the territory under this sauce. former USSR- in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. And with a very long sight. In March 2003, the United States attacked Iraq, plunging the entire region into chaos, giving birth to ISIS, banned in Russia. Then there was Libya, an attempt to overwhelm Egypt, Syria... On the “fight against terror” in various countries The Pentagon has received almost $6 trillion in the 16 years since the tragedy, and the US military-industrial complex has found a new reason for existence. The Americans wrote off Russia then. After all, if they had waited a little, then perhaps the “terrorists” would not have had to blow up New York skyscrapers.
However, this extremely cynical action, for which none of the special services, by the way, was punished, although it seemed to be a terrible failure, also had serious internal political goals. In October 2001, the so-called Patriot Act was passed with a bang - a carefully and pre-researched federal law that significantly expanded the rights of intelligence agencies to electronically spy and supervise Americans. A prison appeared in Guantanamo Bay, and America itself finally turned into a police state in which “Big Brother” is breathing down the back of every citizen.
The most cynical thing, however, is that some gentlemen specifically made huge money from the September 11 tragedy, and they clearly acted on the assumption that terrorist attacks would happen, and very soon.
What an amazing coincidence: in July 2004, New York businessman Larry Silverstein became a tenant - for 99 years - of all seven WTC buildings. The contract amount was 3.2 billion dollars, of which he managed to pay only 14 million, and ultimately earned over 8 billion dollars. How did he do it? The main insurance element in the policies was the event of a terrorist attack. He didn't have to wait long.
Provocations, provocations...
If we have not convinced anyone who is actually responsible for the September 11 attacks, let us note in conclusion that provocation is historically the main instrument of US policy. This is the famous Boston Tea Party, and the explosion of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana, and the same Pearl Harbor, and the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin... This list goes on and on, as well as the list of large-scale hoaxes in which the Americans managed to convince millions, even billions of people. The most striking of these was the US space program before the advent of the shuttles, most notably the staged landing on the Moon. While commemorating the innocent victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, people have no right to forget how and why it was done. And that something similar could happen again, since no one is punished for it.
An event that changed people's lives
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this day was the most unusual on the planet in the 21st century. Then residents of all countries of the world glued their gaze to their TV screens and became glued to the Internet. And there, on the screens, something completely unimaginable was happening, reminiscent of footage from a science fiction action movie. Huge passenger liners crashed into the skyscrapers of New York, tall buildings folded like toy houses, drowning in clouds of dust reminiscent of a volcanic eruption. And - people: endless crowds of screaming people, running through the streets, or frozen in the distance with a cell phone near their ear...
Alas, it was not a film, but almost a direct report from the scene of an event that would later rightfully be called the largest act of terrorism in the history of mankind. Events wearing and quite official name: "The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York."
The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 - how it happened
It is difficult to describe what happened, if only because the narrator inevitably slips into emotions, into personal assessments, and even into his own memories. Moreover, to this day, after many years, certain mysteries, unexplored aspects, and inconsistency of interpretations remain in the picture of the grandiose terrorist attack. However, the essence of what happened is as follows.
A group of Islamic terrorists captured four passenger liner, filled with people and performing scheduled flights. Further investigation revealed that there were a total of 19 attackers, all belonging to the same organization, al-Qaeda. Each plane carried at least one person who had undergone special training and was able to fly a passenger ship.
The terrorists sent two planes to the tall buildings - the South and North towers of the World Trade Center, which were the pride of Manhattan and towered in its southern part. The planes crashed into these skyscrapers one by one, with an interval of about 16 minutes. As a result of the disaster, the buildings caught fire and subsequently completely collapsed, burying a huge number of people. Naturally, all the passengers on the planes also died.
The third plane fell on the Pentagon building, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania, crashing into a field. As the investigation showed, its target, apparently, was the building of the US Congress, but the terrorists failed to carry out their plans: a struggle ensued on board with the crew and passengers, which ultimately led to the crash of the plane. Naturally, everyone on the third and fourth ships also died.
The Pentagon building after a collision with a plane
At the moment, it is stated that as a result of these sad events, 2977 people died, not counting the 19 attackers. Also, 23 people are still listed as missing.
This is exactly what it looks like short description this extraordinary event, but for a more accurate picture it needs to be supplemented with some important facts.
Terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 - additional facts
All the hijacked flights followed their schedules to distant California, that is, they had a lot of fuel on board, because the hijackings occurred shortly after the departures. The plane flew into the North Tower at approximately the 95th floor level, and into the South Tower at approximately the 80th floor level. It is impossible to say more precisely, since in both cases these were Boeings, very large aircraft, and the contact area was more than one floor.
The terrible fire and destruction caused by the disaster led to the collapse of giant buildings. The South Tower was the first to fall, followed by the North Tower about half an hour later (the fire in the building raged for 102 minutes). The third building, also part of the World Trade Center complex, fell in the late afternoon. It was too close to the towers that were attacked and could not withstand the temperature and mechanical influences that fell on its walls. In addition, accumulated gas from destroyed communications exploded inside the building.
Some time passed between the hijacking of the planes and their crash, during which many passengers managed to mobile communications connect with your loved ones and friends. Some said goodbye to life, others tried to contact the special services. Many records of these negotiations have been preserved: emotional, deep, filled with fear and grief, but also love for loved ones.
In some cases, passengers and crew tried to resist the terrorists. One of the planes, as already mentioned, as a result of such heroic actions did not reach its target. In the Boeing that crashed into the North Tower, at least one passenger and crew commander were killed even before the collision; this has been proven by investigation.
Pennsylvania plane crash site 4
In the first hours after the terrorist attack, life in the United States changed beyond recognition. No planes received permission to fly into the country and land at its airfields. Passenger flights within the state were cancelled, all foreign flights went to land in Canada and Mexico. Hundreds of fighters took to the air and patrolled the skies around all major cities.
New York was given a special role. Thousands of firefighters, paramedics and rescue workers worked in Manhattan. All city police officers were involved, and colleagues from other regions urgently arrived to help them. The destroyed twin towers left behind gigantic rubble, the burning of which lasted about 100 days, releasing many harmful chemicals into the air.
Subsequently, US intelligence services found out that of the 19 terrorists, the majority (15 people) had the citizenship of Saudi Arabia, the rest were citizens of the UAE, Egypt and Lebanon. They were not typical fanatical martyrs: they all had a good education and a well-established philosophy of life.
Consequences of the terrorist attack
Grandiose terrorist attack 9/11 had consequences commensurate with its magnitude. They have manifested themselves in various spheres of life, and all over the world. Here are just a few of them.
Material
In addition to the completely destroyed three WTC skyscrapers, several other nearby buildings were significantly damaged, or even destroyed, including one church. Archives, works of art, and countless documents were lost. The southern part of Manhattan lost its business importance for many years. The Pentagon building was very damaged.
Political
The US government and Congress created a special commission known as the 9/11 Commission. She worked for two years and came to the conclusion that the main organizer and culprit of the attack was the Islamic fundamentalist organization Al-Qaeda, which spent about half a billion dollars on the plot. The origin of these funds remains a mystery to this day.
The organization was headed by Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden. The basis of her ideology was hatred of Israel and the United States. In subsequent years, America, along with its allies, launched an unprecedented fight against fundamentalists, primarily al-Qaeda. Its leader was killed in Afghanistan by American special forces in May 2011.
All the leading countries of the world have revised their views on terrorism, realizing its global danger. Security measures have been significantly tightened almost everywhere, especially on aircraft.
We can talk about the economic consequences of the event, its military significance, and its impact on geopolitics. But perhaps the main thing to note is the change, so to speak, in the modern philosophy of life. After such terrible events, all people, without exception, became acutely aware of what an essentially fragile world we live in. In this world, even the most powerful country turns out to be vulnerable, and danger awaits a person not only in warring states. The terrorist attack in New York showed that the boundaries between enemies and friends have become illusory, and the cruelties of wars do not necessarily manifest themselves only on the fronts of local conflicts.
Beautiful temporary memorials have been built on the site of the former Twin Towers; permanent monuments are under construction. The American nation celebrates this mournful date as a Day of Service and Remembrance. And in New York there is a tall monument by Zurab Tsereteli - “Tear of Sorrow”. Inside the split bronze slab is a huge steel drop. This is a symbol of grief not only for the people killed in the terrorist attack. And perhaps not even that much. This tear symbolizes the common pain of humanity, which after September 11 became in many ways different, not so carefree and happy.
Ten years ago, a tragedy occurred in New York that forever changed the lives of millions of people around the world. All these ten years we have been learning more and more details about the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, but no one would dare to say that it has become completely clear what and why happened on the morning of that autumn day in largest city USA.We decided to introduce our readers to an article published on the website of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which contains facts that allow us to better understand and more acutely feel the horror of the tragedy, symbolized by the two numbers 9/11.
1. The number of children who lost their parents as a result of the tragic events of September 11th was 3051. 17 children were born later to women who lost their husbands during the terrorist attack. Nine months after the attack, New York's birth rate was 20% higher than the year before.
2. According to research, alcohol consumption in New York in the weeks following the attack was 25% higher than a year earlier. Tobacco consumption increased by 10%, marijuana by 3.2%, and church and synagogue attendance by 20%.
3. The total value of works of art lost as a result of the terrorist attack exceeds $100 million. Among the lost masterpieces are a series of Entablature paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, works by Pablo Picasso and David Hockney, many other original objects, interior elements, and so on.
4. One of the unknown heroes of this day was the guide dog, Labrador Roselle, who led her blind owner Michael Hingson from the 78th floor of the North Tower to his friend’s house. The dog recently died.
5. It took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires caused by the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC).
6. The parents of 22-year-old Lisa Ann Frost, who was on United Flight 175, waited nearly a year before rescuers sifting through the wreckage at the crash site were able to find anything that belonged to their daughter. Only 291 bodies were found intact.
7. In total, workers had to sift through more than 1 million tons of structural debris and debris in search of remains and objects that belonged to the victims of the terrorist attack. They found 437 watches and 144 wedding rings.
8. Three hours before the attack on the World Trade Center, at Princeton University, a system called the Random Event Generator issued a message about an imminent catastrophic event.
9. The section of the Pentagon building into which the plane hijacked by terrorists landed was subjected to reconstruction shortly before the attack, during which the walls and windows of the mission were especially strengthened. Some windows near the impact zone remained undamaged.
10. The four most popular queries in search engine Google in the week of the attack were as follows (in descending order): Nostradamus, CNN, The World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden.
11. The bestselling novel in America in 2001 was Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
12. When the leader of the terrorist group, Mohamed Atta, went through security at the Boston airport on the morning of September 11, the security information system responded to his name and the terrorist’s luggage did not get onto the plane.
13. Hundreds of monuments, flagpoles and crucifixes around the world are made from metal taken from the site of a terrorist attack. In particular, a monument in the city of Padua, Italy, was made from the metal of the North Tower.
14. Defense system personnel airspace The United States (NORAD - the North American Aerospace Defense Command), a week before the terrorist attack, conducted exercises in which officers practiced the situation of four aircraft being hijacked by terrorists. Another round of training was scheduled for the morning of September 11th.
15. Six months before the terrorist attack lease agreement The 99-year lease on the World Trade Center buildings was purchased for $3.2 billion by the development firm of Larry Silverstein. He is currently restoring an office and shopping center next to memorial complex and a museum.
16. At the beginning of this year, the number of victims of the September 11 terrorist attack increased by one and reached 2,753 people. A medical center in New York concluded that Jerry Borg, an accountant and part-time actor, died at the end of 2010 from a lung disease caused by dust from the ruins of the World Trade Center.
17. Five terrorists lived and prepared to hijack planes, immediately before the attack, in a motel located near the National Security Agency.
18. The black boxes of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon were found on September 12, 2001. As US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld later reported, the voice recording data from one of these boxes could not be read. It is believed that this is the only time in 40 years that no information could be found on a recording device from the nose compartment of an aircraft.
19. During the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, a store where they sold the Koran and a room for Muslim prayers was destroyed.
20. John Patrick O'Neill, the FBI special agent who investigated the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 and the activities of al-Qaeda, left the service due to disagreements with his superiors. He later took the position of chief of security at the World Trade Center, where he died on September 11, 2001.
21. Scientists used the three-day ban on flights over US territory after September 11 to study the impact of jet aircraft on climate. They found that on these three days it was somewhat warmer during the day and slightly colder at night than usual. The researchers saw the reason for this in the traces that jet engines leave in the atmosphere and which are actually artificial clouds. During intensive flights, these traces reflect part of the sunlight during the day, and at night, on the contrary, retain heat.
September 11, 2001 was a special day in the history of the United States: until that moment, the country had not been subjected to a massive attack on its continental territory. However, two dozen terrorists were enough to commit the largest terrorist act in history, causing significant destruction business center New York and destroy the lives of three thousand people. The content of that tragic day consisted of five events in which three buildings and four aircraft were involved.
Event 1
The main event was the destruction of the two twin towers of the World Trade Center (each 110 floors high), which occurred successively at 9:59 a.m. local time (south tower) and 10:28 a.m. local time (north tower). The collapse of the Twin Towers was the result of a ramming attack carried out by two captured suicide bombers. 
passenger planes. The collisions led to a strong fire and damage to the supporting structures of the towers, which together led to a chain reaction - the upper floors (those located above the collision site) collapsed onto the lower ones, they could not withstand the load and the buildings collapsed entirely. There is a popular alternative theory, according to which the collapse of the towers only as a result of collisions with aircraft was impossible, and there was a pre-planned detonation of the buildings from the inside.
Event 2
American Airlines Flight 11 was the first plane hijacked by terrorists on the morning of September 11th. The plane was en route from Boston to Los Angeles when it was hijacked at 8:14 a.m. By the way, it later turned out that upon boarding, the terrorists’ luggage was additionally checked, but no suspicious items were identified. After the hijacking, the terrorists announced to the passengers that the plane had been hijacked and was returning to the airport to make certain demands. US authorities received information about the hijacking of the plane, but the radar transponder on board was turned off, so it was not known exactly where Flight 11 was heading. Military fighters were scrambled only a few minutes after the plane, carrying 92 people, 8 hours 46 minutes crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Until the moment of the second attack, this incident was considered an aviation accident.
Event 3
United Airlines Flight 175, also en route from Boston to Los Angeles, was hijacked between 8:42 a.m. and 8:46 a.m. The terrorists killed the commander and co-pilot and abruptly changed course. This was noticed by dispatchers who tried to contact the plane, but no one answered them. On the way to the World shopping center the plane almost collided with other planes in the air twice - this was avoided only thanks to a preliminary warning from the dispatch service about an “uncontrollable plane.” To hit south tower, the terrorists made a sharp turn at the very last moment. The collision itself occurred at 9:30 am and was practically broadcast live to the whole world (the first such precedent in history) - a television broadcast began in connection with the incident with the north tower. There were 65 people on board the plane, including terrorists.
Event 4
American Airlines Flight 77 was en route from Washington to Los Angeles when it was hijacked by five terrorists about half an hour after takeoff. At 9:37 a.m., it purposefully crashed into the Pentagon building, located in Arlington, a suburb of Washington. A total of 189 people died - 64 people on board the plane, 125 of those who were in the US War Department building. There is a version according to which the Pentagon was a reserve target for terrorists and was chosen for attack only after the terrorist flying the plane was unable to detect the visual coordinates of the main target - the White House.
Event 5
United Airlines Flight 93 was the last plane hijacked by terrorists. The terrorists established control over it at 9:28 am and turned the plane from its previous course to San Francisco in the opposite direction, to Washington. However, the plane's passengers managed to contact their relatives by phone, who informed them about the fate of the other hijacked planes (by that time, collisions with the Twin Towers and the Pentagon had already occurred). In this situation, the hostages tried to regain control of the plane, which, according to investigators, was supposed to hit either the Capitol or the White House. As a result of the struggle between terrorists and hostages, Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, with 37 passengers (including four terrorists) and crew members on board.
