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There were 2,974 fatalities, not including the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (no one on board of the hijacked aircrafts
survived),2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. Lieutenant General Timothy Maude
was the highest ranking military official killed at the Pentagon.John P. O'Neill was a former assistant director of the FBI
who assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef and was the head of security at the World Trade Center when he was killed trying
to rescue people from the South Tower.An additional 24 people remain listed as missing.
1,366 people died who were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower (1 WTC). According to the Commission Report,
hundreds were killed instantly by the impact while the rest were trapped and died after the tower collapsed.As many as 600
people were killed instantly or were trapped at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower (2 WTC). Only about 18 managed
to escape in time from above the impact zone and out of the South Tower before it collapsed. At least 200 people jumped to
their deaths from the burning towers (as depicted in the photograph "The Falling Man"), landing on the streets and
rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below.To witnesses watching, a few of the people falling from the towers seemed
to have stumbled out of broken windows.Some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward
toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue, but no rescue plan existed for such an eventuality. The roof access doors were
locked and thick smoke and intense heat would have prevented rescue helicopters from landing.
A total of 411 emergency workers who responded to the scene lost their lives as they attempted to implement rescue and
fire suppression efforts. The New York City Fire Department lost 341 firefighters and 2 FDNY Paramedics. The New York City
Police Department lost 23 officers. The Port Authority Police Department lost 37 officers. Private EMS units lost 8 additional
EMTs and paramedics.
Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., an investment bank on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 658 employees,
considerably more than any other employer.Marsh Inc., located immediately below Cantor Fitzgerald on floors 93–101
(the location of Flight 11's impact), lost 295 employees, and 175 employees of Aon Corporation were killed.
The dead included 8 children: 5 on American 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11, 3 on United 175 ages 2, 3, and 4.The youngest
victim was a 2 year-old child on Flight 175, the oldest an 82 year-old passenger on Flight 11. In the buildings, the youngest
victim was 17 and the oldest was 79.After New York, New Jersey was the hardest hit state, with the town of Hoboken sustaining
the most fatalities.All of the fatalities were civilians except for some of the 125 victims in the Pentagon.
According to the Associated Press, the city identified over 1,600 bodies but was unable to identify the rest (about 1,100
people). They report that the city has "about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to
the list of the dead."Bone fragments were still being found in 2006 as workers prepared the damaged Deutsche Bank Building
for demolition. The average age of all the dead in New York City was 40.
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