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The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Ramzi Yousef and associates against the United States on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City.
8:50: NEADS is notified that a plane has struck the World Trade Center as its on-duty personnel continue to try to locate Flight 11 on radar. 8:50: FDNY 1st Battalion chief Joseph Pfeifer is the first fire chief to enter the World Trade Center after the North Tower impact. He is joined by several FDNY companies on entry as he starts setting up ...
At 08:46, just as Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the two F-15s were ordered to scramble (an order that begins with engine start-up, a process that takes about five minutes), and radar confirmed they were airborne by 08:53. [12] By that time, however, the World Trade Center's North Tower had already been hit.
Departing from Boston's Logan International Airport, American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the World Trade Center's North Tower at 8:46 a.m. ET. United Airlines Flight 175, also departing ...
Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center between the 93rd and 99th floors. 8:50–8:54: United States airspace Flight 77 is hijacked. 9:03:02 [48] South Tower, World Trade Center, New York City, New York: Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between the 77th and 85th floors. 9:28: United ...
World Trade Center At 8:46am, an American Airlines plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. On board were 76 passengers and 11 crew members, all of whom were killed instantly.
The attacks were influenced by the Bojinka plot, a terrorist operation planned by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his nephew Ramzi Yousef, who was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. [5] The plan would have included bombings of eleven trans-Pacific airliners and crashing a plane into the CIA Headquarters.
The 1993 bombing both foreshadowed and was later overshadowed by the 9/11 attacks eight years later.