Air traffic controllers began the complex job of getting all planes across the country – and those heading in over the Atlantic – onto the ground safely.
MIKE MC CORMICK (Air Traffic Manager): “So this meant, at very early in the morning, as flights were halfway across the Atlantic Ocean to land in the United States, we had already initiated protocols to shut those arrivals off from the oceanic areas. And they had to make tough decisions, such as either turn around and go back to Europe or go to alternate destinations, which many of them did in Canada.”
Canadian officials assisted. They allowed flights from across the Atlantic to land in eastern Canada, including at airports in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Gander, Newfoundland.
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Thick smoke and ash air filled the air following the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City
Almost three thousand people died in the 9/11 attacks.
WOMAN: “You got it coming into Building Number Two on the ninety-seventh floor. People trapped.”
FIRE DEPARTMENT DISPATCHER: “We’re all around the building. We’re completely around the building. We’re into the building now.”
Most of the victims worked in the World Trade Center.
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The victims also included rescuers, among them three hundred forty-three New York City firefighters. They died trying to save others.
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