Bin Laden fled to the White Mountains where he came under attack by U.S.-led forces, but managed to escape. demands to expel al-Qaeda from Afghanistan and extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Bush administration formally responded by launching the War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had not complied with U.S. The United States government under the George W. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, suspicion quickly fell onto al-Qaeda. Investigators determined that Flight 93's target was either the U.S. The plane's passengers attempted to regain control of the aircraft away from the hijackers and ultimately diverted the flight from its intended target it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am. The fourth, and final flight, United Airlines Flight 93, was flown in the direction of Washington, D.C. At 9:37 am, it crashed into the west side of the Pentagon (the headquarters of the American military) in Arlington County, Virginia, causing a partial collapse of the building's side. A third flight, American Airlines Flight 77, flown from Dulles International Airport, was hijacked over Ohio. Both 110-story towers collapsed within an hour and forty-two minutes, leading to the collapse of the other World Trade Center structures including 7 World Trade Center, and significantly damaging surrounding buildings. Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 am, the World Trade Center's South Tower was hit by United Airlines Flight 175.
It was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 am. The first plane to hit its target was American Airlines Flight 11. A fourth plane was intended to crash into a target in Washington, D.C., but instead crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania following a passenger revolt. Two of the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a third hit the west side of the Pentagon. Their explicit goal was to crash each plane into a prominent American building, causing mass casualties and partial or complete destruction of the targeted buildings. Each group had one hijacker who had received flight training and took over control of the aircraft.
The hijackers were organized into three groups of five hijackers and one group of four. to California were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. On that morning, four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern U.S.
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The September 11 attacks, also commonly referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.