I compiled this poetic essay of 9/11 statistics to be more than just a list of 9/11 statistics. I first posted this in 2009, updated today with new stats, and have posted every year on 9/11. The statistics come from various sources, compiled and edited as prose by me. Please feel free to share and redistribute. – Michael Hochman, of Pennsylvania, American.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, resulted in a total of 2,977 fatalities: 2,606 in and around the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan, 125 working in the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia, and 246 on the four airplanes: 87 on American 11 and 59 on United 175 in New York, 59 on American 77 in suburban Washington, and 40 on United 93 in a field in Somerset County Pennsylvania.
1,366 people died at and above the floors of impact in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, over 600 people were killed at and above the floors of impact in the South Tower. 110 people working below the impact zones were killed. 292 were killed at street level from burning debris.
Only 14 people escaped from the impact zone floors of the South Tower after it was hit, and only 4 from the floors above it.
Zero people from the impact zone and the floors above in the North Tower survived.
An estimated 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning Towers. 1 person at street level, FDNY Fire Chaplain Mychael Judge, is hit by such a jumper and killed.
6,294 civilians were injured. 17,400 people were in the World Trade Center complex at the time that day.
Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center on 9/11: 36,000 . Total units of donated blood actually used: 258.
Only 8 office workers and 15 First Responders who were in the towers when they collapsed survived. Just 18 people total were found buried in the rubble alive after the collapse. The last survivor was pulled from the rubble 27 hours after the collapse of the towers. The resulting fires burned for 99 days.
Cantor Fitzgerald Financial lost 658 employees. Marsh & McLennan lost 295. Higher up in the buildings than anyone else, 6 television engineers perished in the rooftop broadcast centers. 165 people died in the Windows on the World rooftop restaurant, including 73 staff members, 16 Risk Magazine employees, and 76 other guests enjoying breakfast. 60 different companies with offices in the World Trade Center lost employees. All 35 members of the flight and cabin crews on the hijacked aircraft were killed.
343 FDNY firefighters and paramedics perished, along with 23 NYPD officers, 37 Port Authority Police officers, 15 EMTs, 3 court officers, and 1 police K9 unit dog named Sirius. FDNY Ladder 3 and Squad 1 each lost 11 members. Over 2,000 first responders were injured. 14,000 firefighters and EMS workers employed by the FDNY at the time. 11,000 of them worked on rubble pile immediately after the attacks.
372 foreign citizens were killed, representing 115 countries. 60 Muslims died in the attacks and, no, that does not include any hijackers.
The two planes that hit the towers were flying at 470mph and 590mph. Fires from jet fuel burned at 1,800°. The first impact registered 0.9 on the Richter Scale. The first collapse measured 2.3, was felt 21 miles away, and registered on seismic equipment as far as Maine. Debris from the second aircraft was found 6 blocks away. Dust from the collapse reached the Empire State Building, nearly 3 miles away. The landing gear from the first aircraft landed in and destroyed a Burlington Coat Factory at 45 Park Place. You may know this building better as the proposed site for a Manhattan Mosque.
The post-collapse debris pile weighed 1,800,000 tons. It took 11,000 truckloads to remove all of the debris, an operation which took 9 months.
New York City ordered 100,000 body bags to the scene. Almost none were used as only 289 bodies were found 'in tact'. 19,848 body parts were eventually uncovered. 15,260 remain unidentified. 65,000 personal items were recovered from the site of the two towers. Bone fragments were found 5 years later as workers prepared the damaged Deutsche Bank Building for demolition.
1,609 people lost a spouse or domestic partner. 3,051 children lost a parent. Over 1,300 were orphaned entirely. 40 people lost a twin sibling. 20% of Americans know someone injured or killed on 9/11. 1,717 families received no remains of their loved ones. 120 babies were born to 9/11 widows in the first year after the attack.
Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000. Jobs lost in New York as a result of 9/11: 146,100.
Pentagon casualties included 70 civilians and 55 military personnel. 92 were on the first floor, 31 were on the second floor, and 2 were on the third. Another 106 injured were treated at area hospitals. Resource Services Washington lost 34 of its 45 employees. Navy Command Center lost 29. The Army alone suffered 75 casualties. Flight 77 hit the west side of the Pentagon at 345mph, penetrating 3 rings. The damaged area collapsed 30 minutes after impact.
Flight 93 impacted the ground in Shanksville Pennsylvania at 564mph, inverted at an angle of 40°. The impact left a crater 10 feet deep and 50 feet wide. The plane crashed just 167 miles and less than 20 minutes away from Washington DC, its intended target.
116,000 American flags were sold nationwide by Wal-Mart on September 11, 2001. According to Pew, 97% of people in the US remember ten years later where they were when they heard about the attacks.
The victims on September 11th included 8 children. The youngest victim was a 2 year-old child, the oldest an 82 year-old man. The average age of all the dead was just 40. The ratio of men to women killed was 3:1. It takes approximately 8 hours to read the names of all the victims at Ground Zero during remembrance ceremonies each year.
In 2009, the last civilian victim was officially added to the death toll as Leon Heyward died 7 years after 9/11 from lymphoma linked to the collapse. Pat Flounders shot herself 3 months after 9/11, becoming the first widow to commit suicide.
6 buildings in Manhattan completely collapsed on September 11th. 3 more partially collapsed (plus the Pentagon), and 8 others were severely damaged. Nearly 50 buildings in New York received at least some damage.
Just 2 weeks after the attacks, the first firefighter was admitted to hospital with acute eosinophilic pneumonia after repeated exposure to dust. As of November 2010, 916 first-responders have died in the years since from illnesses related to their rescue efforts.
It took 6.3 years to build the World Trade Center. It took 1 hour, 41 minutes, and 45 seconds to destroy the towers, from first impact to second collapse, with just seconds for each tower to come down.
Currently, 24 people still remain listed as 'missing'.
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Here is a link to a list of all the victims of September 11th. Please do not fail to note how long this list is, and how long it takes you to scroll down to the end: http://alturl.com/5o8b
