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20 years 9-11-2001
World Trade Center—New York
First plane hit the North Tower at 8:46 (ET)
Second plane hit the South Tower at 9:03 (ET)
Pentagon—Washington, DC
Plane hit the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37 (ET)
Flight 93—Shanksville, Pa.
Plane crashes in a field in Pennsylvania at 10:03 (ET)
• In all, 2,977 people (not counting the 19 hijackers) lost their lives, with most of them in New York.
• 246 passengers and crew aboard the four planes were killed.
• 2,606 people died then or later of injuries at the Twin Towers.
• 125 were killed at the Pentagon.
• The youngest victim: two-year-old Christine Lee Hanson, who died on one of the planes with her parents, Peter and Sue.
• The oldest: 82-year-old Robert Norton who was on another plane with his wife, Jacqueline, en route to a wedding.
• When the first plane struck, an estimated 17,400 people were in the towers. Nobody survived above the impact zone in the North Tower, but 18 managed to escape from the floors above the impact zone in the South Tower.