September 11, 2001

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks

Photos from the Associated Press taken during the hours after the attack.

People run as a cloud of debris engulfs lower Manhattan after one of the World Trade Center towers collapses.

People in front of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral react with horror as they look down Fifth Ave towards the World Trade Center towers after planes crashed into their upper floors Tuesday morning.

Pedestrians scramble for safety in front of City Hall as the first World Trade Center tower collapses after being hit by an aircraft in New York.

This is a view of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn after the World Trade Center towers collapsed following being struck by airplanes.

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and the twin 110-story towers collapsed. Explosions also rocked the Pentagon and th

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower in New York.

People trod through dust and debris to leave the disaster area near the World Trade Center.

A woman reacts to a third explosion at the World Trade towers, while observing from the Brooklyn Promenade which provides a view of the Manhattan skyline.

Women wearing dust masks flee across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn following the collapse of both World Trade Center towers.

Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan following the terrorist attack.

Smoke billows from lower Manhattan in New York, after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, collapsing the twin 110-story towers.

The south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark.

In this image taken from video, one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York collapses. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday.

The south side of the Pentagon burns, with the city of Washington, including the White House and Old Executive office building in background, top center left, as seen from the River House apartments in Arlington, Va.

The north tower of New York's World Trade Center explodes as it begins to collapse.

Fires, ash, debris and smoke fill the streets near where the World Trade Center Towers collapsed.

Stranded airline passengers at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis look for their baggage. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered all airports around the country closed as a result of the terrorist attacks.

With the Washington Monument in the background, smoke billows from the Pentagon.

People trudge through dust to evacuate from the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Emergency workers mark off the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 near Somerset, Pennsylvania. The Boeing 757 took off from Newark, N.J., enroute to San Francisco when it crashed in a wooded area 12 miles north of Somerset, Pa. Authorities sai

Firefighters make their way through rubble after terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center.

The second jet airplane crashes into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.

The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses under its own weight following an impact by a hijacked commercial jet aircraft.

Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story b

Cranes and other heavy equipment move into position to remove debris from the damaged area of the Pentagon.

With the Washington Monument, left, in the background and the American flag at half-staff, a security detail stands on the roof of the White House Wednesday morning.

Rescue and search personnel dressed in hazardous material suits prepare to go into the damaged area of the Pentagon on Friday afternoon.

Smoke billows from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan in this image taken by a U.S. Geological Survey satellite that flew over the region at about 9:30 a.m on Tuesday.

Search-and-rescue crews wait at the site of the crash impact after the Pentagon were temporarily evacuated Thursday morning following a telephoned bomb threat.

A medic surveys the rubble of the World Trade Center early Thursday morning as crews continued searching for survivors and victims.

This photo released by the New York City Office of Emergency Management shows an aerial view of the World Trade Center area on Monday, Sept. 17, 2001.

The smoking crater where the World Trade Center complex once stood is plainly visible in this overhead shot.

The area around the World Trade Center resembles a war zone.

New York's lower Manhattan is seen with smoke still billowing from the destruction area where the World Trade Center twin towers were attacked one week before.

Rescue personnel respond along Liberty Street following the first explosion at New York's World Trade Center.

The Empire State Building is seen to the right of an American Flag in New York on Friday morning.

An aircraft, at right, is seen as it is about to fly into the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday. The aircraft was the second to fly into the WTC complex Tuesday morning.

The Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground as New York is shrouded in smoke after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York.

Smoke billows from the Pentagon after it took a direct, devasting hit from an aircraft. The nerve center of the nation's military burst into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapsed when the plane struck in midmorning.

Park Police Officer Scott Huther, right, stands on guard in front of the White House as an unidentified member of the Secret Service Emergency Response Team walks across the front lawn Tuesday in Washington.

A man coated with ash and debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center south tower coughs near City Hall in lower Manhattan.

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