Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Eighteen years ago today, the entire world watched on in horror as terrorists took down New York's Twin Towers in apocalyptic scenes.In one of the biggest terror attacks of our time, 19 men hijacked four planes destined for America's west coast on the morning of September 11, 2001, and flew two into the Twin Towers and one into the Pentagon while another crashed in Pennsylvania.Some 2,997 people were killed, 2,753 of whom died when American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were ploughed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Centre, causing them to collapse.In the wake of the tragedy, survival stories were full of sliding doors moments -.
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