On September 11, 2001, 19 men associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes – two were crashed into the World Trade Center, one crashed in the Pentagon and the other crashed just outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people were killed by this terrorist attack on the U.S. mainland. As of 2024, the remains of 1,104 individuals killed that day in NYC have still yet to be identified, according to the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner.

At 8:46 a.m. EST, American Airlines Flight 11, traveling from Boston to Los Angeles, struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York. Then at 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flight 17 struck the south tower of the World Trade Center.

Of the 2,763 people perished at

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