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[[Image:Story.crash.sequence.jpg|thumb|125px|left|A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center.]]
The attacks started with the hijacking of 4 commercial airliners. With [[jet fuel]] capacities of nearly 24,000 U.S. [[gallon]]s (91,000 liters),<ref>[[Boeing]]"[http://www.boeing.com/commercial/767family/pf/pf_200prod.html Commercial Airplanes; Technical Characteristics: Boeing 767-200ER.]"</ref> each aircraft effectively became a flying [[incendiary bomb]].
[[American Airlines Flight 11]] crashed into the north side of the north tower of the [[World Trade Center]] (WTC) at 8:46:40 a.m. [[EDT|local time]] (12:46:40 [[UTC]]). At 9:03:11 a.m. local time (13:03:11 UTC), [[United Airlines Flight 175]] crashed into the south tower, an event covered live by television broadcasters that had their cameras trained on the North Tower. [[American Airlines Flight 77]] crashed into [[the Pentagon]] at 9:37:46 a.m. local time (13:37:46 UTC). The fourth hijacked plane, [[United Airlines Flight 93]], crashed in a field in southwest Pennsylvania, at 10:03:11 a.m. local time (14:03:11 UTC), with parts and debris found up to eight miles away. The crash in Pennsylvania is believed to have resulted from the hijackers either deliberately crashing the aircraft or losing control of it as they fought with the passengers. No one survived in any of the hijacked aircraft.<ref>"[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/index.html September 11: Chronology of terror]." ''[[CNN]].'' [[September 12]], [[2001]].</ref>
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