The Associated Press
11 September, 2001
A person falls from the north tower of the World Trade Center. At 8.45am, the building was hit by a hijacked Boeing 767 airplane, the first of two attacks on the center. As explosions sparked fires in the 110-storey tower, trapped office workers jumped to escape the flames.
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