9/11

Rare Video footage that was not repeated. This largely unknown triptych the subsequent images follow shot from a Brooklyn window was part of an ongoing Internet art exhibition that displayed updated panoramas of downtown Manhattan every four seconds.

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Smoke rises from the New York skyline on Sept.

9/11. 11 2001 after two hijacked planes crashed into the landmark World Trade Center. Show this short mini-documentary to anyone who has not seen at least 5 911 documentariesThe events of 911 2001. The attacks of September 11 2001 killed almost 3000 people shocked the world and forever seared 911 into memory as a date filled with tragedy.

When a 911 Memorial Museum opens at Ground Zero next year it will have a small display dedicated to the jumpers but reflecting the intense feelings of unease the subject has provoked it. On that morning four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern United States to California were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. The September 11 attacks often referred to as 911 were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States of America on the morning of Tuesday September 11 2001.

American Airlines Flight 11 visible in the upper right-hand corner of the photo approaches the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11 2001. The most famous image of a 911 jumper was taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Richard Drew. The morning of Tuesday September 11 was fine and sunny with New Yorkers navigating the manic rush-hour commute to work or school under a cloudless blue sky.

September 11 attacks also called 911 attacks series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in US. Citizens of 78 countries died in New York Washington DC and. Amid the fire and wreckage off-camera the Falling Man is.

Simply called The Falling Man 15 the photo depicts an adult male head over feet with a light dress shirt fluttering in descent against the backdrop of the unmistakable steel-slatted World Trade Center facade. A total of 2996 people were killed in the 911 attacks including the 19 terrorist hijackers aboard the four airplanes. On this day 18 years ago unimaginable horror struck America when four commercial flights were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into sites including New York Citys Twin Towers.

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