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Gallery: The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

A woman reacts to a third explosion at the World Trade towers, while observing from the Brooklyn Promenade which provides a view of the Manhattan skyline, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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On Tuesday, Sept. 11, terrorists hijacked airplanes and used them to destroy the Twin Towers in New York City and damage the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. One of the planes crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.

Excluding the 19 hijackers, the death toll stands at 2,998 with 24 more presumed dead,

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Firefighters walk through smoldering debris at the site of the World Trade Center in New York Sept. 11, 2001. Two planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday morning, collapsing the 110-story buildings. (AP Photo/Graham Morrison)

Firemen gather around rubble at the base of the World Trade Center towers in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Mounting an audacious attack against the United States, terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Matt Moyers)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Chesapeake, Ohio, shows its patriotic colors Sept. 12, 2001, by flying U.S. Flags along Ohio 7.

Rudy Dekkers, owner of Huffman Aviation in Venice, Fla., speaks Sept. 12, 2001, in front of one of the planes used to train two men in 2000 who were involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Dekkers said the FBI was looking at student records at the flight school, including copies of passports from the men. (AP Photo/The Sun, Chris Crook)

Engineers and ironworkers confer about removal plans as they stand atop some of the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Chesapeake, Ohio, residents, from left, Travis Syderstrieker, Paul Syderstrieker and Greta Bundy join the nearly 1,500 other participants in the candlelight vigil on Sept. 12, 2001, at Harris Riverfront Park to honor those injured and killed in Sept. 11, 2001's terrorist attacks.

An aircraft, at right, is seen as it is about to fly into the World Trade Center in New York in this image made from television Sept. 11, 2001. The aircraft was the second to fly into the tower Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/ABC via APTN)

Onlookers watch as the Pentagon burns, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001, following a terrorist attack in Arlington, Va. American Flight 77, hijacked while carrying 64 people from Washington to Los Angeles, tore into the side of the Pentagon in a terrorist attack. Part of the western side of the five-sided building collapsed. (AP Photo/The Daily Journal, Dylan Moore)

Funeral workers from Joseph A. Brizzi & Sons Inc., Jim Mocha, left, and Phil DiFranco, look at an informal memorial, and mural by artist Nick Mora, on their way to work Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The mural honors victims of Tuesday's World Trade Center attack. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Two beams of light light up the sky above Manhattan from near the site of the World Trade Center in New York Monday, March 11, 2002. The lights are part of temporary memorial and will light up every evening till April 13. The Statue of Liberty is seen at right foreground. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Empty skies and grounded planes are the sight at Tri-State Airport and airports all over the county after all flights were ordered to land and stay grounded Sept. 11, 2001.

Emergency personnel carry an orange body bag with the remains of a victim of the World Trade Center crash from the rubble Sept. 13, 2001. Two hijacked airliners were crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, destroying both buildings. (AP Photo/Bill Farrington)

Harry Shasho sweeps up before being evacuated from his vitamin store after the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

A fire burns on the Mall, Sept. 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C., in this image from television. (AP Photo/CNN)

Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. The Empire State building is seen in the foreground. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

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Lori Wolfe/The Herald-Dispatch Tom Jordan, a World Trade Center survivor, speaks about his experience during a Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony in 2006 at New Life Church in Huntington.

Workers remove rubble from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York Sept. 12, 2001, as search and rescue efforts continue after Tuesday's terrorist attack that destroyed both twin towers. (Gannett News Service, Seth Harrison /The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News)

New York City policeman Daniel Mallo stands guard wearing a protective mask near the New York Stock Exchange building in lower Manhattan, Sept. 16, 2001. Workers are preparing the building for the reopening of the stock market on Monday. The Stock Exchange has been closed since last Tuesday's terrorist attack. (AP Photo by Robert Spencer)

Rachel Uchitel makes an emotional plea as she searches for her fiance James Andrew O'Grady outside Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Sept. 13, 2001. O'Grady was working on the 104th floor of Tower 2 of New York's World Trade Center that was destroyed in the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/CP,Andrew Vaughan)

A jet airliner is lined up on one of the World Trade Center towers in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In the most devastating terrorist onslaughts ever waged against the United States, knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center on Tuesday, toppling its twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Huntington High School students clasp hands and pray Sept. 11, 2001, for the those affected by the terrorists acts.

A huge U.S. flag hangs on the Merrill Lynch building in the World Financial Center as the media gathers on a setback below to photograph ground zero of the World Trade Center, Monday, Sept. 9, 2002. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

Smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center and flames and debris explode from the second tower, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In one of the most horrifying attacks ever against the United States, terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)

Rescue personnel respond along Liberty Street following the first explosion at New York's World Trade Center following the first explosion Sept. 11, 2001. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. (AP Photo/Robin L. Marin)

Pedestrians walk through the ash covered streets Sept. 11, 2001, after the attacks on the nearby World Trade Center towers in New York. This picture was shot by John Labriola, who had an office on the 71st floor of the building. He escaped with no injuries. (AP Photo/John Labriola)

A firefighter rests on the bumper of his firetruck as he pauses while working at the site of the World Trade Center collapse Sept. 13, 2001. Thousands remain missing in the rubble after the terrorist attacks on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

Thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center towers stood in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo of lower Manhattan and New York harbor. The National Park Service said on Dec. 17, 2001, that Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty, will reopen to visitors on Dec. 20, for the first time since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/File, Daniel Hulshizer)

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Onlookers watch as the Pentagon burns Sept. 11, 2001, following a terrorist attack in Arlington, Va. American Flight 77, hijacked while carrying 64 people from Washington to Los Angeles, tore into the side of the Pentagon in a terrorist attack. Part of the western side of the five-sided building collapsed. (AP Photo/The Daily Journal, Dylan Moore)

A fireball explodes from one of the World Trade Center towers after a jet airliner crashed into the building Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Red Cross worker Jane Black, center, prepares Wayne resident Heather Hodges to take blood Sept. 11, 2001, at the Huntington Red Cross. Blood donors waited up to two hours to give blood due to the disaster in New York.

A person jumps from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center as another clings to the outside, left center, while smoke and fire billow from the building, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers Tuesday morning. A jetliner also slammed into the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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File photo/The Herald-Dispatch On Sept. 11, 2006, local residents discuss their involvement in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. They are, from left, Michael Manns, Ed Kittinger, Terry Wright and Tom Jordan. Jordan was in the South Tower of the World Trade Center when an airplane plowed into it; the others helped with rescue and recovery operations afterward.

The south tower of New York's World Trade Center collapses Sept. 11, 2001. In one of the most horrifying attacks ever against the United States, terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The damaged Deutsche Bank tower, the tall black building at center right, to the south of the World Trade Center site, is seen from the air Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Alfaffer)

Smoke billows from the Pentagon Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after it took a direct, devasating hit from an aircraft. The nerve center of the nation's military burst into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapsed when the plane struck in midmorning. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit, Will Morris)

The twin towers of New York's World Trade Center rise over the World Financial Center in this view, from the air, in this June 23, 1999, file photo. Terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and knocked down the twin 110-story towers Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File)

People in front of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral react with horror as they look down Fifth Avenue toward the World Trade Center towers after planes crashed into their upper floors Sept. 11, 2001. Explosions and fires left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Bill Fennelly, a volunteer firefighter from Baldwin, N.Y., pauses for a moment at the World Trade Center collapse in New York, Sept. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)

Craig McFarland of Los Angeles holds his head at the ticket counter of American Airlines Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, at Logan International Airport in Boston. McFarland, who exchanged his ticket, says he was supposed to leave on American Flight 11 which left Boston for Los Angeles and was reportedly hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Huntington High School students clasp hands and pray on Sept. 11, 2001, for the those affected by the terrorists acts.

A person jumps from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. Mounting an audacious attack against the United States, terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Smoke, flames and debris erupts from one of the World Trade Center towers as a plane strikes it Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. The first tower was already burning following a terror attack minutes earlier. Terrorists crashed planes into the two buildings and collapsed both towers. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)

The Statue of Liberty, left, stands in New York Harbor as columns of smoke rise from the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Jeff Zelevansky)

Damage to adjoining building at the World Trade Center in New York City, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001 (Gannett News Service, Robert Deutsch/USA Today)

President Bush's Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of the President to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Palestinians dance in the street at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, Sept. 11, 2001. Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps celebrated the attacks in the United States by firing into the air. (AP Photo/Mohamed Zatari)

A ball of fire explodes from one of the towers at the World Trade Center in New York after a plane crashed into it in this image made from television Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. The aircraft was the second to fly into the tower Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/ABC via APTN)

Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center's south tower crashes following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

This is a view from the Lower East Side of Manhattan where the World Trade Center towers would have been visible prior to the collapse of the buildings after a terrorist attack in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Bill Pilc)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Sharon Ambrose holds her head as she and her husband , Ken, recall their son Paul's love and zest for life. Paul Ambrose was one of the passenger aboard the hijacked plane that was flown into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

Marine Major Dan Pantaleo hangs from a crane in a basket after retrieving a Marine Corp flag from one of the offices as work continues on the damaged section of the Pentagon, Sept. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

A worker stands on a steel beam and looks down into the still-smoldering abyss at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, October 9, 2001. (AP Photo/ Stuart Ramson)

Marine Maj Dan Pantaleo, right in basket, recovers a Marine Corp flag from the fourth level of the damaged area of the Pentagon, Sept. 13, 2001. A hijacked airliner crashed into the structure on Tuesday. The flag was taken to the Marine Corp commander's office. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Rescue workers look over the rubble of the World Trade Center towers in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. The towers collapsed after two commercial aircraft struck the towers Tuesday in a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Virgil Case)

Smoke and fire surround the upper floors of the World Trade Center in New York City, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in this image from television, after a second plane crashed into the building. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. (AP Photo/NBC)

Search and rescue teams work in the rubble of the World Trade Center collapse in New York, Sept. 16, 2001. With each passing hour, the men and women who combed the wreckage grew more frustrated, as their hopes of finding survivors are dashed at every turn. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

Rescue workers remove debris from the rubble of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 13, 2001, in New York. The search for survivors and the recovery of the victims continues since Tuesday's terrorist attack.(AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser, pool)

A police recovery unit observes debris removal at the site of the World Trade Center disaster as cleanup and recovery efforts continue, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York, Sept. 11, 2001, in this photo taken from the Brooklyn borough. Two planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart in what President Bush said was an apparent terrorist attack, blasting fiery, gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. (AP Photo/Mark D. Phillips)

Submitted photo Raised in Huntington, Dr. Paul Ambrose was a promising young doctor who was killed at the Pentagon in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, at the age of 32.

File photo/The Herald-Disptch Col. John Rivenburgh, with the Huntington Corps of Engineers, talks about making the decision to ensure the safety of Federal employees and closing the Federal building on 8th Street in Huntington on Sept. 11, 2001.

Firefighters and emergency personnel investigate the scene of a fatal crash involving a United Airlines Boeing 757 with at least 45 passengers Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001 near Shanksville, Pa., Somerset County.(AP Photo/Tribune-Democrat/David Lloyd)

The dome of the Capitol building in Washington is visible behind the crash site at the Pentagon at sunrise on Sept. 16, 2001. Eighty-five remains have been recovered from the Pentagon, the Defense Department said. The agency said 188 people -- military and civilian employees at the department and the passengers and crew in the plane -- were believed killed when a hijacked airline was forced to crash into the military complex Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Boitano)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Huntington Youth for Christ director Tom Bowen, left, listens as Jeff Johnson, pastor of the Bethel Temple Assembly of God, share their experiences as chaplains to the fire fighters and other emergency work crews at the site of the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on Sept. 26, 2001.

Smoke rises as a section of the facade of World Trade Center Tower 2 is pulled down by emergency workers in New York Sept. 25, 2001. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)

Damage to the Pentagon from Tuesday's terrorist attack is seen during a Congressional tour Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. Searchers received a signal from the black box of the plane that crashed at the Pentagon, officials said Thursday. Search crews will not be able to retrieve the black box at the Pentagon until they are able to enter the collapsed area of the Pentagon, where the plane's fuselage rests. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

People flee the scene near New York's World Trade Center after terrorists crashed two planes into the towers Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

Photos released by the FBI Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001, of the suspected hijackers from American Airlines Flight 11. Top row, from left are, Satam M. Al Suqami, Abdulaziz Alomari, Waleed M. Alshehri. Bottom row, from left are, Wail M. Alshehri and Mohamed Atta. (AP Photo/FBI)

Volunteer Edward Halley arranges candles and other mementos Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, at the Wall of Prayers erected at New York's Bellevue Hospital for victims of Tuesday's World Trade Center terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz)

Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center's south tower crashes following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

An unidentified worker stands at the ruins of the World Trade Center's Building 7, Sept. 13, 2001. It collapsed Wednesday as a result of structural problems from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, Tuesday. (AP Photo/The New York Times, Jim Estrin, Pool)

A man coated with ash and debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center south tower coughs near City Hall in lower Manhattan Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Twin beams of light are aimed skyward during the Towers of Light tribute at Harris Riverfront Park on Sept. 12, 2001honoring those killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Firefighters raise a flag at the World Trade Center in New York Sept. 11, 2001, as work at the site continues after hijackers crashed two airliners into the center. (AP Photo/The Record, Thomas E. Franklin)

Firemen are deployed near the site of the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. In the most devastating terrorist onslaught ever waged against the United States, knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center on Tuesday, toppling its twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

As rescue efforts continue in the rubble of the World Trade Center, President Bush greets firefighters at the site during a tour of the devastation, Sept. 14, 2001. Bush is standing on a burned fire truck. Bush toured the disaster site on foot after getting a helicopter view of the devastation. More than 4,700 people remain missing in the devastation of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Rescue workers pull a car out of the rubble of the World Trade Center towers in New York, Sept. 12, 2001. Rescue workers dug in mountains of rubble as the city struggled to recover from an airborne attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday that shut down the nation's financial capital and created a new skyline etched in terror. (AP Photo/Virgil Case)

A sign is held up in the crowd before a memorial service for victims of United Airlines Flight 93, in Somerset, Pa., Friday, Sept. 14, 2001. Volunteers led a prayer service Friday as investigators continued to comb through the wreckage of the airliner searching for the second so-called black box, the plane's cockpit voice recorder in nearby Shanksville. (AP Photo/Gary Tramontina)

Firefighters at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, as hospitals began the grim accounting of the dead and injured from the airborne onslaught that toppled the twin towers on Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Beth A. Keiser)

Heavy equipment is shown lining a street in lower Manhattan, with the remains of the collapsed World Trade Center complex in the background, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed Wednesday as a result of structural problems from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, Tuesday. (AP Photo/The New York Times, Jim Estrin, Pool)

The south tower of the World Trade Center, left, begins to collapse after a terrorist attack on the landmark buildings in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samiolava)

National Guardsmen watch the intersection of Chambers Street and Greenwich Street in New York Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. The smoke behind them is from fires at the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center towers collapsed after Tuesday's terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Smoke rises from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, as members of the Fairfax Co. Search and Rescue team approach after a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/ The Daily Progress, Dan Lopez)

Eric Silvestri of Avon, Mass., top, reassures relatives on the phone at Logan International Airport in Boston, that his mother was not on an American Airlines flight, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, that left Boston bound for Los Angeles that was reportedly hijacked and then crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. The man at bottom is unidentified. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A commercial airliner, lower left, approaches the World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, top photo. The South tower of the World Trade Center erupts in flames after the airliner crashed into the building, bottom photo. It was the second plane to crash into the World Trade Center Tuesday as smoke continues to billow from the other tower as a result of the first plane's impact. (Gannett News Service, Fabien Moreau/USA Today)

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and the twin 110-story towers collapsed. Explosions also rocked the Pentagon and the State Department and spread fear across the nation. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Military personnel are stationed near the site of the World Trade Center attack Thursday morning, Sept. 13, 2001. The site of Tuesday's terrorist attack continued to burn as crews searched for survivors or victims. (AP Photo/Beth Keiser)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch Three-year-old Kaitlin Hammonds raises a candle and a flag during a candlelight vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Harris Riverfront Park to honor those killed.

New York State employee Allison Clavert shields her face from dust and soot as she walks past the New York Stock Exchange, background left, Monday morning, Sept. 17, 2001. Many workers returned to New York's financial district as stock markets and some other businesses reopened for the first time since last week's terrorist attack against the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Damage to the Pentagon from Tuesday's terrorist attack is seen during a Congressional tour Sept. 13, 2001. Searchers received a signal from the black box of the plane that crashed at the Pentagon, officials said Thursday. Search crews will not be able to retrieve the black box at the Pentagon until they are able to enter the collapsed area of the Pentagon, where the plane's fuselage rests. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn following a terrorist attack on the twin skyscrapers in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and the twin 110-story towers collapsed Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)

File photo/The Herald-Dispatch On Sept. 26, 2001, Huntington Youth for Christ director Tom Bowen, left, and Jeff Johnson, pastor of the Bethel Temple Assembly of God, share their experiences as chaplains to the firefighters and other emergency work crews at the site of the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center.

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Firemen sift through the rubble of what was left of the World Trade Center towers in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, after both towers were destroyed Tuesday in a terrorist attack. As of Thursday, more than 4,700 people had been reported missing in the devastation. (AP Photo/Herald News, Ryan Mercer)

Medical personnel walk past dust covered cars near the site of the World Trade Center in New York, Sept. 12, 2001. In the most devastating terrorist onslaught ever waged against the United States, knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center on Tuesday, toppling its twin 110-story towers.(AP Photo/ Beth A. Keiser)

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

This is an undated file photo of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan, wanted by the United States government on account of the 1998 bombing of two U. S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Bin Laden is hiding out in Afghanistan as guest of its Islamic rulers, the Taliban. Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers condemned the devastating terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, and rejected suggestions that Osama bin Laden could be behind them. (AP Photo)

As rescue efforts continue in the rubble of the World Trade Center, President Bush puts his arms around firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the World Trade Center debris during a tour of the devastation, Friday, September 14, 2001. Bush is standing on a burned fire truck. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said 4,763 people have been reported missing in the devastation of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Smoke rises into the sky following the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks Tuesday morning that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Firemen sift through the rubble of what was left of the World Trade Center towers in New York, Sept. 12, 2001, after both towers were destroyed Tuesday in a terrorist attack. As of Thursday, more than 4,700 people had been reported missing in the devastation. (AP Photo/Herald News, Ryan Mercer)

Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center's south tower crashes following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)