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...agent sadly reported that the Secret Service field office in New York City, with its 200 agents, was located in the World Trade Center. The plane's TV monitors were tuned in to local news broadcasts; Bush was watching as the second tower collapsed. About 45 minutes after takeoff, a decision was made to fly to Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, site of the nation's nuclear command and one of the most secure military installations in the country. But Bush and his aides didn't want to wait that long before the President could make a public statement...
...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...
...Early Tuesday morning, American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 were hijacked shortly after takeoff from Boston, flown off course and into the World Trade Center towers, causing a series of spectacular explosions which eventually collapsed both buildings. Logan does not stand alone in the grim spotlight - two other flights were also hijacked after taking departing Newark and Dulles; an estimated 266 people died on those four planes - but as the origin airport of two of the four doomed flights, scrutiny of the Boston airport was intense...
...agent sadly reported that the Secret Service field office in New York City, with its 200 agents, was located in the World Trade Center. The plane's TV monitors were tuned in to local news broadcasts; Bush was watching as the second tower collapsed. About 45 minutes after takeoff, a decision was made to fly to Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, site of the nation's nuclear command and one of the most secure military installations in the country. But Bush and his aides didn't want to wait that long before the President could make a public statement...
...production equipment--or 300-lb. bodyguards. Though the investigation into the crash of the plane carrying R.-and-B. star Aaliyah is not complete, one thing is becoming certain: the twin-engine Cessna 402B was too heavy to fly. With a maximum weight limit of 6,300 lbs. for takeoff, the loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed 300 lbs. Unless the others weighed less than 63 lbs. each, their chances were slim...