Terrorists hijack four planes from "summary" of Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
The morning of September 11, 2001, started like any other day for many people across the United States. However, within a matter of hours, the country would be forever changed. On that fateful day, terrorists executed a meticulously planned and coordinated attack that would go down in history as one of the most devastating acts of terrorism ever carried out on American soil. The terrorists, members of the extremist group al-Qaeda, hijacked four commercial airplanes with the intent of using them as weapons of mass destruction. The hijackers were not interested in negotiating for ransom or making demands; their sole objective was to cause death and destruction on a massive scale. The hijackers took control of the planes by using box cutters and other makeshift weapons to overpower the flight crews and gain access to the cockpits. Once in control of the aircraft, they altered their flight paths and set course ...
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