Building 7

September 11th, 2001

9:37 AM

Planes have been flown into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, as well as the Pentagon.

10:03 AM

United Airlines Flight 93 plunged into a field, igniting the isolated rural area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Six minutes earlier, onboard - after voting to do so - the passengers revolted - ultimately preventing the hijackers from crashing the plane into the U.S. Capitol Building.

The crash site for United Airlines 93 and the resting site of the heroes who sacrificed themselves to prevent further disaster (Source)

Relatively, the story of United Airlines 93 is not well known. Especially when compared to the Twin Towers and the Pentagon attacks - among other details of that day.

There’s many stories about these attacks that are not well known enough. Many about about people, heroes, buildings, etc. Some of these stories extend into the present day.

10:28 AM

The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, adding to the moments from the live TV broadcasts that many Americans will never forget.

The debris from the North Tower collapse damaged and ignited fires inside of a third tower – Building 7 (7 World Trade Center), on multiple lower floors. The building’s fire suppression system was unable to fight the fire, which burned throughout the day.

For some background - this third tower, Building 7, was completed in March of 1987, was 47 stories tall, and had a unique trapezoidal shape.

Layout of the various buildings, including the Twin Towers and Building 7 in downtown Manhattan (Source)

5:20 PM

Building 7 begins it’s collapse, 7 hours and 21 minutes after the South Tower and 6 hours and 52 after the North Tower. The third tower has collapsed. Thankfully, no lives were lost due to Building 7’s collapse.

Unfortunately, this is a much lesser known event that occurred on that day.

A beautiful tower, part of the illustrious history of the greatest city in the world, lost that day - but never lost from our memories.

Building 7 in August 1992, taken from the WTC observation deck (Source)

South view of Building 7 in 1994 (Source)