![]() ![]() Please remain quiet." - hijacker aboard United Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There is a bomb on board and we are going back to the airport. "We're young men we're not ready to die." - Kevin Cosgrove, a business executive who was on the 105th floor of the south tower moments before it collapsed."Are you guys ready? Let's roll." - Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer, apparently as a signal to other passengers to attack the hijackers. ![]() Oh my God, we're -” - Flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney describing the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11 at the end of her phone call to a supervisor. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.” - Mohamed Atta, American Airlines Flight 11 hijacker pilot, heard on a radio transmission while intending to send a message to the passengers. “What do I tell the pilots to do?” - Barbara Olson, CNN commentator and a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 during a cellphone call to her husband, Solicitor General Theodore Olson.Here are some quotes collected from documents released after the attack: On this day in 2001, hijackers seized four passenger planes and crashed them into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Virginia and a field in Pennsylvania. The devastating attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists, claimed the lives of 2,996 people and left thousands injured in the United States. Patriot Day is marked every year as the National Day of Service and Remembrance to honor those who died in the Sept. ![]()
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