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REPORTER: “Oh, my goodness, there’s another one.”
The planes exploded in fireballs that sent clouds of smoke pouring from the skyscrapers. Thousands of people were in the buildings. Many workers on the floors below where the planes hit were able to escape. Others on the floors above were trapped. Some apparently felt their only choice was between burning to death and jumping. News cameras showed disturbing images of bodies falling from the towers.
The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed just before ten o'clock, after burning for almost an hour. The North Tower came down about thirty minutes later. It had been hit first and had burned for one hour and forty-two minutes.
DON DAHLER: “The second building that was hit by the plane has completely collapsed. The entire building has just collapsed, as if a demolition team set off--when you see the old demolitions of these old buildings—down on itself. And it’s not there anymore.”
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Investigators later found that the intense fires from the jet fuel, burning for as long as they had, had caused the structures to fail.
The ruins of the two buildings quickly became known as Ground Zero.
Several other buildings in the World Trade Center complex were damaged or destroyed as a result of the collapse of the twin towers.
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Another group of hijackers took over American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757. The plane had taken off from Washington Dulles International Airport.
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