The 9/11 attacks of 2001 - in pictures

The 9/11 attacks of 2001 – in pictures | September 11 2001 | The Guardian

The second commercial plane hijacked after taking off from Boston’s Logan International airport approaches the World Trade Center shortly before crashing into the south tower/Getty Images

The point of impact where the first plane crashed into the north tower

United Airlines Flight 175 pictured just before it struck the south tower

Dan Bartlett, deputy assistant to President George W Bush, points to news footage of the attack as Bush gathers information in a classroom at Emma E Booker elementary school in Sarasota, Florida. Behind them are Deborah Loewer, director of the White House situation room, and Karl Rove, a senior adviser Photograph: Eric Draper, Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library/Getty Images