UPDATED: 10:00 a.m. ET, Sept. 6, 2025
T he nation forever changed 24 years ago when 3,000 people were killed in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a field in rural Pennsylvania in terror attacks orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Sept. 11, 2001.
After four planes were hijacked during flights originating from separate locations, one of them struck the World Trade Center’s North Tower at 8:46 a.m., trapping the building’s workers who were above the 91st floor. Seventeen minutes later, another of the three planes flew directly into the World Trade Center’s South Tower at 9:03 a.m. Nearly 40 minutes after that, the third plane crashed into the Pentagon in northern Virginia at 9:37 a.m. And at 10:03 a.m., the fourth and final hijacked flight crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania…