Tragic Day for America

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television, as this building burning, they tried to figure out what had happened. Our worst fears started to come life at 9:02 am when flight 175 camecrashing into the southern tower between 78th and 84th floors. Theplane was traveling at around 500mhp leaving parts of the airplaneincluding it engine up to six blocks away. Many people were convinced it was terrorist attack. The news announced that the first explosion was from flight 11. Many questions were on everyone's minds; where are they going to attack next, Are my loved ones safe?

All planes were grounded at 9:25, except two planes that the FAA lost communications with; flight 93 and 77. At 9:37am flight 77 crashed into the E section of the pentagon, which was its largest section. The E section had been under going renovations, and thus many workers were not in that section luckily. Next at 9:59am the south tower of the world trade center suddenly collapsed sending a 2.1 magnitude earthquake through New York during the 10 ...

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