9/11: Was geschah am 11. September 2001?

On September 11, 2001, four passenger flights departed from American airports between 7:59 a.m. and 8:42 a.m. Within hours, the world had changed irrevocably. The coordinated hijackings of those four aircraft led to attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., with a fourth plane crashing in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted the hijackers. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and triggered the collapse of the Twin Towers. The events prompted the United States to launch the global War on Terror, including the invasion of Afghanistan later that year and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The reporting presents a chronological account of the morning's events, from the departures to the aftermath, emphasizing how a single morning reshaped global security, politics, and daily life.

Global Impact

The 9/11 attacks triggered a fundamental shift in global geopolitics, leading to the U.S.-led War on Terror, the invasion of Afghanistan, and later Iraq, which destabilized entire regions and cost trillions of dollars. Economically, the attacks caused immediate market closures and a brief recession, but also spurred massive defense and homeland security spending.