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How Channel 4 News reported 9/11

By Jon Snow, Lindsay Taylor

Updated on 11 September 2001

Watch Jon Snow and the team on 11 September 2001.

Here's how Jon Snow introduced Channel 4 News on the night of 9/11:

"A hijacked Boeing 767 slams into New York's World Trade Centre. Two airliners are used in the rush hour attack. The entire complex is destroyed and an untold number of people are dead and injured.

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"The streets of the world's financial capital are seized with terror, people fleeing in blind panic.

"A third hijacked airliner crashes into Washington's epicentre, the Pentagon. A fourth jumbo crashes in Pennsylvania. President Bush is flown to a secure military base...

"Good evening, welcome to a Channel 4 News's special after the most devastating terrorist attack in the history of the United States. One terrifying hour, four hijacked airliners, many passengers aboard.

"Even now, several hours after the tragedy began, new details and images are coming in all the time. No one knows the true scale of the human carnage.

"America is sealed. All borders and airports are closed, communications in chaos. Here too, all flights have been banned over central London. The financial markets are in tatters."

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