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BOSTON--In the most deadly and horrific attack on the United States in its 225-year history, terrorists crashed two hijacked passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, toppling the 110-story structures in a cloud of smoke and ash yesterday morning. Less than an hour later, another passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. in an unprecedented attack upon the U.S. government...
...passengers aboard the jets used in the attacks were killed, with an unknown number--most likely ranging in the thousands--killed in the three targeted buildings. A fourth hijacked jet crashed near Pittsburgh, Penn., killing an additional 45 people...
...tragic and spectacular explosion that engulfed lower Manhattan in thick smoke and gray powder debris, two airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City at around 9 a.m. EST. The first plane was an American Airlines commercial jet bound for the West Coast; the second United flight 175 en route to Los Angeles. Both planes were hijacked shortly after takeoff from Boston's Logan airport and flown off-course to New York...
...planes were loaded with fuel for transcontinental flights, and that jet fuel ignited a hellish blaze that sent temperatures at the point of impact soaring to an estimated 2000 degrees F. Within an hour, the intense heat caused the seemingly invincible steel beams of the towers to melt like cotton candy. At 10 a.m. EST, the southern tower of the World Trade Center was enveloped in smoke after a second, gigantic explosion, and part of that tower collapsed and was destroyed. About twenty minutes later, the northern tower imploded. At 5 p.m. EST, weakened by the impact and heat...
...DIED. AALIYAH HAUGHTON, 22, multiplatinum R. and B. singer and actress who released her first hit album when she was 14; in a plane crash, on Abaco Island, the Bahamas. Her two subsequent albums also produced chart-topping singles and sold millions. In 2000 she co-starred with Jet Li in the film Romeo Must Die and was slated to appear in the next two installments of The Matrix. DIED. YOSHIAKI SHIRAISHI, 87, a former sushi chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers...