On this day 18 years ago, America witnessed on of the worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

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Today we pay tribute to those lives lost and those brave men and women who put their lives on the line to help their fellow Americans.

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This page is dedicated to those 2,753 people

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September 11, 2001
 

• 8:46 a.m. ET - American Airlines Flight 11 (traveling from Boston to Los Angeles) strikes the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
   

• 9:03 a.m. ET - United Airlines Flight 175 (traveling from Boston to Los Angeles) strikes the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
   

• 9:37 a.m. ET - American Airlines Flight 77 (traveling from Dulles, Virginia, to Los Angeles) strikes the Pentagon Building in Washington.
   

• 9:59 a.m. ET - South tower of WTC collapses in approximately 10 seconds.
   

• 10:03 a.m. ET - United Airlines Flight 93 (traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco) crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
   

• 10:28 a.m. ET - North tower of WTC collapses. The time between the first attack and the collapse of both World Trade Center towers is 102 minutes.