On September 11th, 2001, 19 members of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda high jacked four airliners and executed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the pentagon in DC, and the last one was in a field in Somerset County in Pennsylvania. I am going to give a review on the two planes that hit the Twin Towers in New York City.
At 8:45 am on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 was high jacked midflight and went on to crash into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a burning hole near the 80th floor of the 100 story high sky scraper. While everyone was being evacuated, the media was thinking that it was some sort of freak accident but it only got worse from …show more content…
Since the attacks, the United States has spent an estimated $100 Billion to secure airports and airplanes, but it is still clear that there is more that can be done to make the more secure. One of the first modifications that were made were hardening cockpit doors with bulletproof material and updating the no-fly lists. Also the amount of air marshals that were employed increased from fewer than 100 total in 2001, to now a total that is estimated to be more than 5000. There was also large technology updates on the machinery used to detect any types of objects on a person that is being scanned. Also there are around 42,000 screeners for the TSA currently but in 2001, there were fewer than 20,000 with many poorly trained and just minimum wage workers which use X-rays to scan what is on a person at the time of entering the airport and what is in their possessions as well. Since they were poorly trained and only minimum wage workers, they were probably just trying to get their shift over with and that allowed the terrorists to board the plane with box cutters, the weapons used to highjack the airplanes. Now it is a job that is sometimes taken a little too seriously, but they will do whatever it takes to not let any possible threats on to the plane, keeping the airports a much safer
At 8:45 am on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 was high jacked midflight and went on to crash into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a burning hole near the 80th floor of the 100 story high sky scraper. While everyone was being evacuated, the media was thinking that it was some sort of freak accident but it only got worse from …show more content…
Since the attacks, the United States has spent an estimated $100 Billion to secure airports and airplanes, but it is still clear that there is more that can be done to make the more secure. One of the first modifications that were made were hardening cockpit doors with bulletproof material and updating the no-fly lists. Also the amount of air marshals that were employed increased from fewer than 100 total in 2001, to now a total that is estimated to be more than 5000. There was also large technology updates on the machinery used to detect any types of objects on a person that is being scanned. Also there are around 42,000 screeners for the TSA currently but in 2001, there were fewer than 20,000 with many poorly trained and just minimum wage workers which use X-rays to scan what is on a person at the time of entering the airport and what is in their possessions as well. Since they were poorly trained and only minimum wage workers, they were probably just trying to get their shift over with and that allowed the terrorists to board the plane with box cutters, the weapons used to highjack the airplanes. Now it is a job that is sometimes taken a little too seriously, but they will do whatever it takes to not let any possible threats on to the plane, keeping the airports a much safer