Click2Disasters - September 11: America Attacked - Chapter 4 - The Attack - Flight 175

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000>SEPTEMBER 11</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - THE ATTACK - FLIGHT 175</font></b></p> </div> <font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000>  </font> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Another Boeing jet - this one a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34289,00.html" target="_blank"><b>757</b></a> owned by United Airlines - left Boston’s Logan Airport at 07:58 EDT as Flight 175, also bound for Los Angeles. <a href="http://www.nandotimes.com/ips_rich_content/960-Flight175hijackers.JPG" target="_blank"><b>Hijackers</b></a> took <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/americas/2001/day_of_terror/the_four_hijacks/ny_bw_154x175_f175.gif" target="_blank"><b>control</b></a> of the plane and, at 09:03 EDT, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537692_planeone_footage09_vi.ram" target="_blank"><b>rammed</b></a> it into the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/images/01810r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>South Tower</b></a> at <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/americas/2001/day_of_terror/trade_center_disaster/clickable_graphics/crash2.gif" target="_blank"><b>about</b></a> the 80th floor.</p> <p>Just before the plane crash, <a href="http://www.legacy.com/images/Portraits/91695bport.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Peter Hanson</b></a>, one of the passengers, called his parents. He told them that hijackers had control of the plane and had stabbed one of the cabin crew. Cameras, focused on the burning first tower, broadcast the second crash on live television. A BBC journalist, Steve Evans, had no clue that his viewers were <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537652_wtc13_evans_vi.ram" target="_blank"><b>watching</b></a> the second crash as they listened to his report of the first one.</p> <p>Some of the people trapped in the towers, above the crash sites, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537692_wtc01_voxpops_vi.ram" target="_blank"><b>jumped</b></a> from the buildings rather than wait for inevitable death. All 65 <a href="http://www.legacy.com/nytimes/Sept11.asp?Page=TributeFullText&Memorial=UA175" target="_blank"><b>people on board</b></a> Flight 175, including flight attendants and pilots, were killed.</p> <p>Meanwhile, a third plane en route from Washington’s Dulles Airport to Los Angeles, was about to strike terror in the nation’s capitol.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="america_attacked_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="america_attacked_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="america_attacked_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>