Little Known Eye-Opening Facts About 9/11

19 terrorists hijacked four commercial aircrafts bound for New York City’s North and South Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is the story we all know but there are more things to this historical event that you may not have realized. In honor and in remembrance of those who have fallen, here are some facts of the event that you may not know.

In 1993 the was a bombing within the parking lot of the North Tower, injuring thousands but only killing 6 people.

These perpetrators went through all the protocols to ensure that their entrance into the country was legal and fully documented for the world to see.

The attack changed protocols that have shaped the course of U.S. security even today.

These hijackers used pepper spray and mace to subdue passengers to make it easier for them to take control of the plane.

The original target according to thorough investigation can be said to have been with great certainty, no other than The White House.

It is because of this initiative and bill that first responders of this attack never have to plead for additional Congress funding since the fund is protected.

This combination created an extremely dangerous and highly flammable environment for 99 days. That’s 99 days of non-stop fire causing NYC Firefighters to tend to this inferno 24/7 for its full duration in attempts to contain and neutralize it.

But did you know that some of these lucky citizens were some very high-profile people? Michael Jackson and Seth MacFarlane are among them. Jackson overslept and missed his meeting in the World Trade Center, while MacFarlane had a reserved seat on Flight 11 but missed the departure time by a few minutes because of a hangover.

Genelle had made her way down the stairwell just as rubble was thrust upon her and somehow survived the building’s destruction around her. She was buried under such rubble for 27 life-threatening hours before she was saved.

As a direct correlation of such an incident, many people encountered asthma and lung inflammation later in life at rates abnormal for those in direct contact with the attack both during and after.

On any regular work day, about 50,000 employees worked among the towers and that’s not including the estimated 40,000 people coming in and out of the World Trade Center complex on any given day.

There were 1.8 million tons of wreckage from the World Trade Center.

Among the different airports were, Newark International Airport, and Boston Logan International Airport.

Countless people still debate whether this collapse was a direct cause of the attack or not.

The Pentagon was referred to ‘the Faculty of Fine Arts’ and the World Trade Center’s North Tower was referred to ‘the Faculty of Town Planning’. The perpetrators even referred to the attack itself as ‘the first semester’,  and the terrorist’s themselves as the ‘19 certificates for private education,’ since there were 19 of them.

They may have survived to tell the tale of this tragedy but not without many health complications.

For this reason, these terrorists invested years of planning to ensure its success. The invested great survilience and resonance.

The footage of the Pentagon attack was only released in 2006, years after the attack took place.

It seems like a scary coincidence because in the show Frasier, Dr. Crane is called by a passenger aboard a flight of the same number, American Flight 11, to be exact.

These attackers attended flight schools in Florida to be exact.

Flight 77 aimed for the Pentagon struck an area that was due for extensive renovations that resulted in less people in the building during the time of the attack.

It is said that this saved additional lives and casualties for the speculated target of the U.S. Capitol although costing the flight passengers theirs.

He wanted to include attacks on nuclear plants as well but it was deemed unrealistic and more complicated so it was decided to scale back.

While the North Tower collapsed a mere 102 minutes after impact.

They assumed that carrying out this attack would weaken the U.S. and in return would affect their freedoms negatively eventually giving their terrorist group the upper hand. On the contrary happened, despite hurting the U.S., the U.S. bounced back stronger than ever.

This is the greatest loss of firefighters on duty in their department’s 100-year history.

She was only a mere two years old and was flying on the count of her first trip to Disneyland. They were originally supposed to fly a day before the attack but due to her father’s work commitments Christine and her parents boarded that September 11th flight on that tragic day.

The exact number is still unclear for certain but we can be sure that in connection to the 9/11 attacks over 1,100 people were arrested.

This anthrax threat managed to kill five additional people.

From the U.S. perspective, the immediate aftermath economically in 2001, of such an attack was that it reduced real GDP growth by 0.5%. Additionally, such an attack increased unemployment rates by 0.11% which is an estimation of a 598,000 reduction in jobs.

On the contrary, among the millions of dollars in artwork completely lost was a memorial piece for the victims of the ’93 bombing, as well as authentic Pablo Picasso paintings.

The whole airspace of North America was closed to civilian traffic and slowly resumed after but in limited quantities. The pre-9/11 flight experience would never be returned, forever altering how we fly today.