Later, many people criticized George Bush for this asking why he didn’t take immediate action. When it was known that 2 planes were hijacked, America was attacked, there were crashes, he remained in the classroom in those minutes, ignoring all these. A few minutes after the second plane crash, the news of two more planes being hijacked comes in.
One was the American Airlines Flight 77. It had taken off from Washington’s international airport. This flight was headed to Los Angeles and it was also carrying 5 hijackers. The second flight was United Airlines Flight 93. The flight going from New Jersey to California. Apparently, it had 4 hijackers. Both flights were rerouted to Washington DC.
Washington DC is the capital of the United States of America. On the outskirts of Washington DC is the headquarters of the US Department of Defense. It is called The Pentagon. The Pentagon is an iconic building too. Hijackers turn Flight 77 towards this and Flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon building.
At this point in time, after the third crash, the entire airspace of the United States was shut down. All the airplanes in the air, were ordered to land. At their nearest airport. The third crash into the Pentagon building took place at 9:37 am. Because of this, a significant portion of the Pentagon gets destroyed. At 9:59 am, due to the plane crash into the South Tower, the whole building had caught on fire. Because of the fire and the crash, the structure of the building had weakened. And at this time, the entire building collapsed. The South Tower fell.
