American Airlines Flight 77

The man in the red bandana It was 9:12 when the south tower was hit. I am John Reynolds a survivor from 9-11. Once the plane hit, smoke was everywhere around me. A piece of glass hit my leg, it started to bleed badly. I tried to tie something on it to slow the bleeding. I could barely see my hands and leg in front of me. Everything was going black, and at first a thought that it was the smoke in the air. It just kept getting darker and darker, then i realized that I was losing my conscious and…

hair. No one really knew who he was, he looked like the average person. Blending in with the crowd. Cooper looked to be in his 40’s and had light brown eyes. He seemed very calm to be skyjacking a plane. “He ordered a drink—bourbon and soda—while the flight was waiting to take off.” (“D.B. Cooper Hijacking” 2) Dan Cooper blended in well with businessmen and didn’t look like a crook.…

Colgan Air Flight 3407, a passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, carrying forty-five passengers and four crew members. During the instrument landing system approach, the aircraft went into an aerodynamic stall, causing the it to crash and kill all passengers on board. Captain Marvin Renslow was in command of the flight, having accumulated over 3,000 flight hours. Renslow was accompanied by Rebecca Shaw, the first officer who had 2,000 flight hours under her belt. The…

In the early evening of January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into Washington DC’s 14th Street Bridge and plunged into the Potomac River, just minutes after take-off from Washington National Airport. Only six passengers survived the crash, all of whom clung to the tail section of the plane as it sunk slowly into the freezing, ice-clogged waters. Arnold D. Williams, Jr. was one of those passengers. As rescue workers and ordinary civilians tried desperately to reach the injured and…

happened in New York along with the planes that had just hit in Pennsylvania and Washington. With everyone terrified, it was only safe to stay far away from any danger possible as any other terrorist attacks following that day would be recorded into American History and never to be forgotten by the people of…

towers a second plane came into sight and hit the south tower near the 60th floor. This collision caused a massive explosion which lead to the showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. While all of this was happening Flight 77 was flying over downtown Washington, D.C., and slammed into the west side of the Pentagon military…

There have been many airplane hijackings in the U.S. since the commercial airline was invented, but one soars above the others in infamy and impossibility. This hijacker has been a mystery for decades now and many theories have appeared as to who this man is. Many have wondered about is this mystery man that has escaped the world for so many years. There is no proof of his true identity, but he is known as D.B. Cooper. The criminal known as “D.B. Cooper” has sparked many theories as to both his…

Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County Washington State, had an eruption which caused the death of fifty-seven people on May 18, 1980. A cloud full of ash rose into the sky, turned everything dark, and made any given time of day appear as black as midnight across many of the north-western states. It was recommended that people not leave their homes and they were told to wear gauze masks to keep the ash from entering their lungs. The eruption also caused about one thousand miles of roads to…

One beautiful September morning in New York, Mike the firefighter was on his way to meet his buddy Mark and Amy his Dalmatian. While Mike was on his way to meet Mark and Amy, he heard on The radio that a plane crashed into the North Twin Tower. Mike was stuck on a bridge. He knew he had to get to the North Tower, but he didn't know how. While on the bridge, he ran into Mark and Amy. Mike told them, ''A plane crashed into the North Twin Tower.'' Mark and Mike knew they both…

that at 7:59 AM “American Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport for Los Angeles.” Then at 8:46 AM the Federal Aviation Administration’s Boston control center a call saying that flight 11 from American airlines has been hijacked.Then Not even a minute later, Hijackers crash American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 94 to 98 of 1 World Trade Center, the North Tower. However while all of this is going on, on the same day at 8:14 AM a “United Airlines Flight 175 takes…