world trade center timeline : 09/11/2001

9.25am

US President George W. Bush addresses the nation, stating a Terrorist attack may have occured. "We have had a national tragedy. Two aeroplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country."

Charlotte Observer witness account of scene in New York:

""I’d thought he was kidding," Craig said. "I thought he was talking about a hurricane in North Carolina or something."

But the pictures were there, live on television, of smoke billowing from the famed twin skyscrapers. Craig couldn’t believe his eyes. It seemed like something out of a movie."

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