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Some amazing statistics from that day, courtesy of: http://www.guardian.co.uk (numbers are approximations)
- Year the World Trade Centre was built: 1970
- Number of companies housed in the WTC: 430
- Number working in World Trade Centre on average working day prior to 11 September: 50,000
- Average number of daily visitors: 140,000
- Number killed in attack on New York, in the Twin Towers and in aircraft that crashed into them: 2,823
- Distance, in miles, from which the burning towers were visible: 20
- Maximum heat of fires, in degrees fahrenheit, at World Trade Center site: 2,300
- Number of days underground fires at World Trade Centre continued to burn: 69
- Number of days that workers dug up debris at Ground Zero, searching for body parts: 230
- Number of body parts collected: 19,500
- Number of bodies discovered intact: 291
- Number of victims identified by New York medical examiner: 1,102
- Number of death certificates issued without a body at request of victims’ families: 1,616
- Number of people still classified as missing from the World Trade Centre that day: 105
- Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center: 92
- Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 175 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center: 65
- Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania: 45
- Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon: 64
- Number of peole killed in the Pentagon: 125
- Number of survivors rescued from Ground Zero: 0
A day Americans will never forget.
Name: Brackett