On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US airliners and turned them into weapons of mass destruction. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in ...

September 11, 2001 – Nineteen men hijack four commercial airlines loaded with fuel for cross country flights, to carry out a terrorist attack on the United States orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama ...

According to the FDNY, more members have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed in the attacks themselves. A total of 19 hijackers begin passing through security at various airports. 7:59 a ...

Brothers (from left) George and Gary Mueller and Dr. Daniel Meenan gaze at the ‘field of honor’ where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, from the Flight 93 National Memorial’s flight ...

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 collides into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York as smoke billows from the north tower. (AP Photo/Chao Soi ...

Maine (WABI) - Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 2,977 people were killed when terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York ...

There are certain numbers seared into memory from that unthinkable morning. At 8:46 a.m. Eastern time, hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the first tower. At 9:03 a.m., another ...