Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks
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Casualties
All the victims http://www.september11victims.com
As of 2005, 2,992 people were presumed dead as a result of all four September 11 attacks. This includes the casualties at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, on the airplanes and the hijackers.
Planes
265 people killed on four planes; 232 passengers, 25 flight attendants, 8 pilots. (Note that this total includes the 19 hijackers, who reportedly boarded the planes as passengers.)
- American Airlines flight 11 BOS-LAX (north tower of World Trade Center): 93 people: 82 passengers (including 5 hijackers), 9 flight attendants, 2 pilots
- United Airlines flight 175 BOS-LAX (south tower of World Trade Center): 65 people: 56 passengers (including 5 hijackers), 7 flight attendants, 2 pilots
- American Airlines flight 77 IAD-LAX (The Pentagon): 64 people: 58 passengers (including 5 hijackers), 4 flight attendants, 2 pilots
- United Airlines flight 93 EWR-SFO (Shanksville PA.): 44 people: 37 passengers (including 4 hijackers), 5 flight attendants, 2 pilots
See also: Memorial wiki tributes to the occupants of each plane
World Trade Center
By 2004, 2602 people were listed as confirmed dead (this total excludes those aboard the two aircraft). 1585 victims were identifed from the World Trade Center wreckage while 1161 victims were not identifed when DNA testing ended in February 2005.
See also:
- Memorial wiki tributes to the Fire Department of New York
- Memorial wiki tributes to companies and organizations
Missing Persons
The number of missing people grew to estimates as high as over 6000 in the weeks following the attack, but steadily declined as stories were checked and duplicate entries removed.
As of August 2002, there were approximately 90 people who were officially missing; that is, their remains had not been identified and no family members had requested a death certificate.
Survivors
The great majority of the over 40,000 people working at the World Trade Center at the time of the attack evacuated safely, including 18 who escaped from above the impact zone in the second tower hit. By September 20, 2001, 6291 people, including rescue and recovery workers, had been treated for injuries.
Pentagon
The Pentagon reports 125 staffers killed or missing, with 121 remains recovered and identified, as of September 11, 2002. At least one person died later as a result of wounds incurred.
Missing Persons
The Pentagon reports 4 staffers missing. One passenger on the airliner which hit the Pentagon was also never identified.
Survivors
88 treated at hospital.
Victim legends
Due to the very large number of World Trade Center casualties and missing persons, victim legends were a common form of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks urban legends. These were tales of victims who did not exist, spread by word-of-mouth and the Internet. Official sites, such as http://www.september11victims.com, contain accurate entries and are trusted content. Because Wikipedia, and many other websites allowed freely adding victims, there were no doubt many obvious fake entries. Victims added to these lists were also sometimes simply missing at the time of the attacks, or actually survivors of the attacks.
