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September 11, 2001 attacks
The towers burn shortly after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower on the right. On the left is the still smoking North Tower, struck earlier by American Airlines Flight 11.
Location	New York, New York (first two), Arlington, Virginia (3rd), Shanksville, Pennsylvania (4th); all U.S.
Date	September 11, 2001 8:46 am – 10:28 am (UTC-4)
Target	World Trade Center and The Pentagon (fourth hijacking may have been intended for for the White House or the U.S. Capitol).[citation needed]
Attack type	Suicide attack, Hijacking
Deaths	2,992 (including 19 suicide hijackers)
Injured	Unknown
Perpetrators	see Responsibility and Organizers on the right hand column

[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg<|125px|thumb|right|A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center]] The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced "nine eleven") consisted of a series of coordinated suicide attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The victims were predominantly civilians.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen men^[1] affiliated with al-Qaeda^[2] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. The hijackers crashed two of the airliners (United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11) into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (1 WTC and 2 WTC). A third airliner (American Airlines Flight 77) is thought to have crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft (United Airlines Flight 93) attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. In addition to the 19 hijackers, 2,973 people died; another 24 are missing and presumed dead.