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'Horrendous number of dead' in N.Y.

Fiery plane crash devastates Pentagon
Gazette wire services

In a horrific sequence of
destruction, terrorists crashed
two planes into the World Trade
Center in New York in a
coordinated series of attacks this
morning that brought down the
twin 110-story towers. A plane
slammed into the Pentagon in
Washington, D.C., raising fears
that the seat of America's
government was under attack.
Authorities had been trying to
evacuate the 50,000 people who
work in the twin towers, but
many were thought to be trapped.
The attacks spread fear across
the nation as authorities went on
alert coast to coast, halting all air
traffic and tightening security at
strategic installations.
President Bush said, "We will
do what it takes, whatever's
necessary to secure America and
Americans."
Bush was in Florida when the
attacks occurred. He was flown to
Barksdale Air Force Base in
Louisiana.

Washington on alert
The White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol
were evacuated along with o t h e r federal
buildings in Washington and New York this
m o r n i n g in the wake of the attacks.
A u t h o r i t i e s in Washington immediately began
deploying troops, including an infantry
regiment. The Situation Room at the White
House w a s in full operation. Authorities went on
alert, U.S. and Canadian borders were sealed.

2 plane crashes related?

A United Airlines plane c a r r y i n g 45 people
c r a s h e s just n o r t h of the Somerset County
Airport in Somerset, Pa., at about 10 a.m. CST. A
second United Airlines flight, which departed
Boston for Los Angeles with 65 people aboard,
also crashes at an unidentified location.
All aircraft in the United States a l r e a d y in
the air are ordered to land at the nearest airport.

AP photo/ABC
A plane is seen (right) moments before it hit the upper floors of the World Trade Center in New York City this morning in this image from television. Witness tells of escape
Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart today in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left Workers in World Trade Center flee bombed
gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. The twin towers later collapsed. building. Forty-five people survive. Page 4.
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GAZETTE EDITORIALS
Attack should prompt
increased security
T WAS A chilling scene. This morning, the
I normally busy Gazette staff stood silently
before a color television, staring at the
screen. The television is always on in the
newsroom, but it rarely catches much attention,
just a parting glance as staffers rush through
the newsroom or pause 111 their work.
Not today.
In offices and homes and schools throughout
the United States — and even the world — we
will all be watching, or listening, or reading
about two planes that crashed into the World
Trade Center in New York City. We will watch
clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky.
And we will all ask the same question: Why?
As of this morning, this is what we knew.
Two planes crashed into the upper floors of
both World Trade Center towers at around 9
a.m. Eastern time. The twin 110-story towers
later collapsed.
One of the crashed planes was reported to be
an American Airlines 767 jet that had taken off
from Boston's Logan Airport. The FBI almost
immediately issued a statement that it was
investigating a possible hijacking and the possi­
bility of terrorist attacks on the building.
(Source: Associated Press).
An aircraft also crashed near the Pentagon
this morning. The West Wing of the White
House was evacuated amid threats of terrorism,
as were the Capitol and other public buildings
in Washington. No evidence has emerged to
link the World Trade Center crashes with the
one at the Pentagon.
Here are some predictions about what will
happen:
• Some will become heroes as they work to
save the people trapped in the rubble of the two
World Trade Center buildings.
• We will all endure increased security at
airports and government buildings. That's the
way it should be. We should not grumble about
the loss of our civil liberties. What we pay in
inconvenience will help buy our safety.
• Whoever did this, be it terrorists from the
Middle East or more Timothy McVeigh-types,
whatever point they were trying to make has
been lost. For every action, there is an equal
and opposite reaction. The reaction will be a
backlash against the cause they were trying to
advance.
• Finally, we will feel enormous sympathy for
the people who lost loved ones today. Buildings
can be replaced. Security can be restored. What
they have lost makes this chilling scene a
tragedy.
Brokaw: 'Most serious
attack since Pearl Harbor'
By David Bauder
AP t e l e v i s i o n writer
NEW YORK — A chaotic
scene of devastation unfolded
on national television this
morning with cameras catch­
ing a plane crashing into the
World Trade Center and the
subsequent collapse of both of
the towers.
Television networks began
live coverage of a morning of
terrorism at the time the first
plane hit the New York City
landmark. With cameras
trained on the smoking sky­
scraper, television caught the
second plane crashing into the
other tower, footage replayed
several times.
As the terror spread, CNN
showed a split-screen view of
the smoking World Trade Cen­
ter and also the Pentagon,
where smoke billowed from an­
other plane crash.
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upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart this morning.
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The World Trade Center's editions will have six pages of
second tower collapsed about photos, graphics and articles on this
9:30 local time. Beverly Blythe national tragedy.
gathered her bags and walked The Gazette will be drawing on the
quickly from the airport bar, latest news from the Associated
blinking tears. Press, the Los Angeles Times-
"I just had to leave, just Washington Post News Service and
thinking of how many people the Knight Ridder/Tribune New
were dying at that moment," Service to provide comprehensive
Blythe said a few minutes lat­ coverage. In addition, we will have
local reaction to this developing
er. story. If you have relatives who may
Outside on the tarmac at have firsthand accounts of the
The Eastern Iowa Airport in attacks in New York and Washington,
Cedar Rapids, the jet engine on call us at (319) 398-8313, (319)
a TWA aii'liner spun down. No 339-3155 or l-(800) 397-8212.
one was flying anywhere for a
while, but travel plans were
suddenly not important.
"It'll all be sorted out. unless "Why? Why?"
it gets worse," said Coralie In other news:
Brook. • Lindale and Westdale
It got worse. On the televi­ MaJIs closed before noon.
Reports spread as fast as sion over the bar came word of • T h e Iowa National
television could detail them — an airliner down near Pitts­ Guard was put on alert and
planes grounded across the burgh. locked down, while its leaders
country, the White House evac­ "As far as I'm concerned, met with administrators with
uated, planes unaccounted for we're at war," said Blythe, the Iowa Emergency Manage­
— while commentators tried to whose USAir flight to Pitts­ ment Division, Iowa Depart­
keep calm. burgh had turned back at the ment of Public Safety and the
Iowa Army National Guard.
"This is the most serious rim way. "We'd better do some­
thing." "We are on heightened alert,"
attack on the United States
Brook, of Fahiield, was try­ said Lucinda Parker of the
since Pearl H a r b o r , " said
ing to locate her son, Corwin. Emergency Management Divi­
NBC's Tom Brokaw.
The 18-year-old had left on an sion.
A producer from CNN, Rose e a r l i e r A m e r i c a n Airlines • The federal courthouse
Arce, reported people jumping flight to Newark, N.J., where in Des Moines was evacuated.
from the World Trade Center they were to meet to travel to a Business continued as usual at
and described the chaos grip­ spiritual seminar. the federal courthouse in Cedar
Gazette photo by Mark Christian
ping lower Manhattan. Brook wasn't too worried; Rapids at 10 a.m.
she assumed her son's flight • In the schools, teachers Jeff Manthey of Iowa City waits with friend Aaron Warner for
Cameras then caught the col­ was safely on the ground. and administrators worked to Warner's wife, Rachel, to pick them up at the The Eastern Iowa
lapse of both of the twin tow­ Somewhere. keep the day as regular as Airport in Cedar Rapids this morning. Manthey and Warner were
ers, showing white smoke bil­ "Shows you how much we possible for young children. on a plane getting ready to take off for Boston when the
lowing throughout the streets take for granted," she said as "(There's) some inquisitive-
announcement was made that all flights nationwide would be
of lower Manhattan. A shaken her cellular phone beeped an­ ness, yes," says Johnson Ele­ grounded.
Ashleigh Bantield reporting on other busy signal. mentary Principal Susan Lagos
MSNBC described debris show­
In Iowa City, more than 150 in Cedar Rapids. "I'm of course
ering around. people sat in front of the big seeing greater alarm in my
staff."
"I've never seen anything screen television at the Univer­
sity of Iowa Memorial Union, The College C o m m u n i t y
like this." a breathless and
some in tears, others absorbing School District has alerted all
sobbing Banfield said. "This
of its staff about the events via
whole place looks like a war the tragedy for the first time.
"It's world-stopping, I guess," e-mail and has put all of its
zone. When the cloud came out
said Erin Johnson, 19, a UI staff on a heightened security
I could feel the force of it."
s o p h o m o r e from Chicago. and reviewed security proce­
Fox News Channel ran a "Whoever wanted this definite­ dures, just in case, according to
Superintendent Mick Starcev-
continuous crawl of news bulle­ ly made an impact."
tins summarizing the series of Peter Holm, 36, a UI com­ ich, adding that several parents
events. munications major from Clin­ pulled students out of school.
ton, said it's hard to digest the • T h e A m e r i c a n Red
C-SPAN took phone calls
information pouring forth from Cross put out a call for blood
from shaken citizens. One cal­ donations, and Mercy Iowa
media outlets.
ler from California said: "This
"When something is that im­ City reported being flooded by
is a sign to America: We think
mense, it doesn't hit you like calls. For those interested in Gazette photo by Miranda Meyer
we are the strongest country
when five people are shot down donating blood:
and they hit us; they knew — In Iowa City: DeGowin A crowd gathered at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University
in the street. Your sympathy
where to hit us." Blood Donor Center, 356-2058; of Iowa campus this morning to watch incoming live news
isn't any less, but it's so big,
you just can't do anything Mercy Iowa City, 339-0300; Mis­ reports on the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington,
Other television networks sissippi Valley Regional Blood D.C.
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ming. The ESPN sports net­ In downtown Cedar Rapids,
versity Hospitals, 356-2058.
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ports, VH1 showed CBS News television at the food court on Medical Center, 398-6007; St.
p r o g r a m m i n g , TNT showed Third Avenue.
CNN coverage. News networks Steve Stark of Vinton spoke
dispensed with commercials for for m a n y of those who
Luke's Hospital, 369-7315; or the
American Red Cross, 393-3500.
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ABOVE: People run from the collapse of

one of the World Trade Center towers
this morning in New York City.

RIGHT: People in New York are covered

in dust in the aftermath of the collapse
of one of the World Trade Center
towers this morning.

BELOW: Rescue personnel respond

along Liberty Street following the first
explosion at New York's World Trade
Center today. Planes crashed into the
upper floors of both World Trade Center
towers minutes apart this morning in a
horrific scene of explosions and fires
that left gaping holes in the 110-story
buildings. Both towers later collapsed.
President Bush said the crashes were
apparently the work of terrorists.

ABOVE: People in front of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral

react with horror as they look down Fifth Avenue toward the
World Trade Center towers after planes crashed into their upper
floors this morning.

Past U.S. terrorism targets

Some recent terrorist attacks on U.S. targets:
O c t . 12, 2000: Terrorist bombing kills 17 U.S. sailors aboard the U S S Cole
as it refueled in Yemen's port of Aden. The United States says Saudi exile
Osama bin Laden prime suspect.
Aug. 7, 1998: Car bombs explode outside U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya,
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, within minutes of each other, killing 224 people
and wounding thousands. Bin Laden is again blamed.
June 25, 1996: Truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers in Dharan,
Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen and wounding hundreds of other
people. Members of a little-known Saudi militant group. Hezbollah, were indicted
for the attack.
Nov. 13, 1995: Car bomb detonates at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, killing five American service personnel.
April 19, 1995: Bomb rips through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, killing 168 and wounding more than 500. Former U.S. soldier
Timothy McVeigh is convicted of carrying out the attack; he was executed earlier
this year.
Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb explodes in a parking garage below the World Trade
Center in New York, killing six people and wounding more than 1,000. Six
Islamic militants were convicted in the bombing and sentenced to life in prison.
Dec. 21, 1988: Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, on a
flight from London to New York, killing 270 people, including residents of the
town.
Sept. 5, 1986: Hijackers seize Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people at
Karachi airport. Twenty people killed when security forces storm the plane.
O c t . 8, 1985: Crippled American Jew Leon Klinghoffer is killed by Palestinian
militants who had seized the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro.
June 14, 1985: Shiite Muslim gunmen seize a TWA Boeing 727, forcing it to
Beirut, Lebanon. They demand the release of 700 Arabs held by Israel. A U.S.
Navy diver is killed and 39 Americans are held until they are released on July 1
that year after Syrian mediation.
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Hijacked
planes topple
Trade Center
Loss of life may be 'horrendous'
Jerry Schwartz
AP national writer
N
EW YORK - In a horrific
sequence of destruction,
terrorists hijacked two
airliners and crashed them into
the World Trade Center in a
coordinated series of attacks
this morning that brought clown
the twin 110-story towers. A
plane also slammed into the
Pentagon, raising fears that the
seat of government itself was
under attack.
"1 have a sense it's a horren­
dous number of lives lost,"
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
"Right now we have to focus on
saving as many lives as possi­
ble."
Authorities had been trying to
evacuate those
who work in the
twin towers, but
many were
thought to have
been trapped.
About 50,000
people work at
the Trade
Center.
American
Airlines said its
two aircraft
were carrying a
total of 156 peo­
ple.
"This is per­
haps the most
audacious ter­
rorist attack
that's ever taken
place in the
world," said
President Bush reacts to
attacks.
Chris Yates, an
aviation expert at Jane's
Transport in London. "It takes a ble radioed for help.
logistics operation from the ter­
ror group involved that is sec­
ond to none. Only a very small
handful of terror groups is on
that list.. . 1 would name at the
top of the list Osama bin
Laden."
President Bush ordered a full-
scale investigation to "hunt
down the folks who committed
this act."
Within the hour, the Pentagon
took a direct, devastating hit
from an aircraft. The fiery
crash collapsed one side of the
five-sided structure.
The White House, the
Pentagon and the Capitol were
evacuated along with other fed­
eral buildings in Washington
and New York.
Authorities in Washington
immediately began deploying
troops, including an infantry
regiment. The Situation Room
at the White House was in full
operation. And authorities went
on alert from coast to coast,
halting all air traffic and tight­
ening security at strategic
installations.
"This is the second Pearl
Harbor. I don't think that I over­ jumped out of the windows.
state it." said Sen. Chuck Hagel.
R-Neb.
American Airlines identified
the planes that crashed into the
Trade Center as Plight 11. a Los
Angeles-bound jet hijacked after
takeoff from Boston with 92 peo­
ple aboard, and Flight 77, which
was seized while carrying 64
people from Washington to Los
Angeles.
In Pennsylvania, United
Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757
en route from Newark, N.J.. to
San Francisco, crashed about 80
miles southeast of Pittsburgh
with 45 people aboard. The fate
of those aboard was not imme­
diately known and it was not
clear if the crash was related to
the disasters elsewhere. In a
statement, United said another
of its planes, Flight 175, a
Boeing 767 bound from Boston
to Los Angeles with 65 people
on board, also crashed, but it
did not say where.
Evacuations were ordered at
the United Nations in New York
and al the Sears Tower in
Chicago. Los Angeles mobilized
its anti-terrorism division, and
security was intensified around
the naval installations in
Hampton Roads, Va. Walt
Disney World in Orlando, Fla.,
Sites of attacks
was evacuated.
At the World Trade Center,
"everyone was screaming, cry­
ing, running, cops, people, fire­
fighters, everyone," said Mike
Smith, a fire marshal. "It's like
a war zone."
"I just saw the building I work
in come down," said business­
man Gabriel loan, shaking in
shock outside City Hall, a cloud
of smoke and ash from the
World Trade Center behind
him.
Nearby a crowd mobbed a
man on a pay phone, screaming
at him to get off the phone so
that they could call relatives.
Dust and dirt flew everywhere.
Ash was 2 to 3 inches deep in
places. People wandered dazed
and terrified.
The planes
blasted fiery,
gaping holes in
the upper floors
of the twin tow­
ers. A witness
said he saw bod­
ies falling and
people jumping
out. About an
hour later, the
southern tower
collapsed with a
roar and a huge
cloud of smoke;
the other tower
fell about a half-
hour after that,
covering lower
Manhattan in
heaps of gray
rabble and bro­
ken glass.
Firefighters trapped in the rub­
"Today we've had a national
tragedy," Bush said in Sarasota,
Fla. "Two airplanes have
crashed into the World Trade
Center in an apparent terrorist
attack on our country." He said
he would be returning immedi­
ately to Washington.
The crashes at the trade cen­
ter happened minutes apart,
beginning just before 9 a.m.
Heavy black smoke billowed
into the sky above one of New
York City's most famous land­
marks, and debris rained down
on the street, one of the city's
busiest work areas. When the
second plane hit, a fireball of
flame and smoke erupted, leav­
ing a huge hole in the glass and
steel tower.
John Axisa, who was getting
off a commuter train to the
World Trade Center, said he
saw "bodies falling out" of the
building. He said he ran out­
side, and watched people jump
out of the first building. Then
there was a second explosion,
and he felt heat on his neck.
WCBS-TV, citing an FBI
agent, said five or six people
People ran down the stairs in
panic and lied the building.
Thousands of pieces of what
appeared to be office paper drift­
ed over Brooklyn, about three
miles away.
Several subway lines were
immediately shut down.
Trading on Wall Street was sus­
pended. New York's mayoral
primary election today was
postponed. All bridges and tun­
nels into Manhattan were
closed.
David Reck was handing out
literature for a candidate for
public advocate a few blocks
away when he saw a jet come in
"very low, and then it made a
slight twist and dove into the
building."
Terrorist bombers struck the
World Trade Center in
February 1993, killing six people
and injuring more than 1,000
others.
"It's just sick. It just shows
how vulnerable we really are,"
Keith Meyers, 39, said in
Columbus, Ohio. "It kind of
makes you want to go home and
spend time with your family. It
puts everything in perspective."
He said he called to check in
with his wife. They have two
young children.
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In the eye
World Trade terror
One of two planes that crashed into the upper floors of both World
Trade Center towers was hijacked after takeoff from Boston in an
of the storm
apparent terrorist attack Tuesday, according to U.S. officials.
Eyewitnesses recount chaos at scene
By Jerry Schwartz
S
hortly before 8 a.m. today,
American Airlines Flight
11 left Boston for Los
Angeles. It would not reach its
destination. Something hap­
pened shortly after takeoff. A
hijacking. And instead of climb­
ing well aloft and heading west,
the plane swept to the south, to
New York.
Clyde Ebanks, vice president
of an insurance company, was
at a meeting on the 103rd floor
of the South Tower of the World
Trade Center when his boss
said, "Look at that!"
He turned and through a win­
dow saw a plane go by and hit
the other building.
It was 8:50 a.m.
For Peter Dicerbo and 44 co­
workers at First Union National
Bank, it was the start of their
workday — a beautiful day,
with sunlight glinting off the
Hudson River and streaming
though the windows on the 47th
floor of the trade center.
And then, "I just heard the
building rock. It knocked me on
the floor. It sounded like a big
roar', then the building started
swaying, that's what really
scared me."
Harriet Grimm, inside the
Borders bookstore on the trade
center's first floor, heard a large
boom, "and then we saw all this
debris just falling."
About 18 minutes later, Luigi
Ribaudo — who works nearby,
in Tribeca — heard a twin-
engine plane making what he
said was a strange noise. He
looked up; he saw a plane that
was "too low."
"It was going to hit something
and it hit and exploded inside,"
he said. It was American Flight
77, a Boeing 757, operating from
Washington Dulles to Los
Angeles.
Two towers, two direct hits.
The chaos was immediate.
Dicerbo led his 44 colleagues
down 47 flights of stairs, He
staggered away from the build­
ing, his clothes torn; the work­
SOURCES NBC compiled from AP wire reports
ers were stunned, dazed and
coughing.
"The minute I got out of the
building, the second buildine
Tues., Sept. 11, 2001
Smoke rises from
the Pentagon in
Washington in this
image taken from
television this
morning. The
Pentagon was
struck by an air­
craft in an appar­
ent terrorist
attack in the
nation's capital.
blew up," said Jennifer
Brickhouse, 34, from Union,
N.J., who was going up the esca­
lator into the World Trade
Center when she "heard this big
boom."
"All this stuff started falling
and all this smoke was coming
through. People were scream­
ing, falling, and jumping out of
the windows."
Emergency vehicles flooded
into lower Manhattan. No one
knew what happened; the tow­
ers, target of a terrorist bomb­
ing in 1993, seemed to be ground
zero once again.
About 9:30 a.m., an aircraft
crashed at the Pentagon in
Washington. The nerve center
of the nation's military burst
into flames and a portion of one
side of the five-sided structure
collapsed, sending billows of
smoke over the capital.
At 9:50 a.m. — an hour after
the first crash — One World
Trade Center collapsed.
There was a strange sucking
sound, and then the sotmd of
floors collapsing, and then an
incredible surge of air, followed
by a vast cloud of dirt, smoke,
dust, paper and debris.
Windows shattered. People
screamed and dived for cover.
Around 10 a.m., a United
Airlines flight from Newark to
San Francisco crashed 80 miles
southeast of Pittsburgh.
Government buildings around
the country began to be evacuat­
ed, including the Capitol and
the White House. The Federal
Aviation Administration
stopped all takeoffs nationwide.
The United Nations closed
down. In New York, the tunnels
and bridges were closed.
At exactly 10:30 a.m., the sec­
ond tower of tlie trade center
collapsed.
The top of the building explod­
ed. There were no flames, just
an explosion of debris and dust
and smoke, and then more huge
vast clouds swept to the streets.
At noon, United Airlines
announced that another of its
planes had gone down. No loca­
tion was given; it was not con­
firmed whether this was the
plane that hit the Pentagon.