id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4164 History of the United States (1991–2008) - Wikipedia .html text/html 12614 1424 69 (EST), resulting in the collapse of both 110 story skyscrapers, and the destruction of the World Trade Center.[35] The third hijacked plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia, demolishing a section of the outer southwest facing wall.[36] After discovering that their plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was going to be used as a missile, passengers attempted to regain control of the plane which had been redirected towards Washington, D.C.[37] However, after regaining control from the hijackers, the plane crashed near a rural community near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.[38] In total, the attacks killed 2,996 people—2,507 civilians, 343 firefighters, 72 law enforcement officers, 55 military personnel, and the 19 terrorists.[39] The 9/11 attack was the single deadliest international terrorist incident and the most devastating foreign attack on American soil since the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.[40] It refocused American attention to a long war on terrorism, beginning with an attack on al-Qaeda and its Taliban supporters in Afghanistan. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4164.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4164.txt