Suit faults airlines, security for 9/11 attacks

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2008 | by Sam Wood Inquirer Staff Writer

The owner of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the 2001 terror attacks, filed two amended complaints last week accusing 17 airlines and five security contractors of negligence that led to five terrorists being able to commandeer passenger aircraft and crash them into the twin towers.

Attorneys for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey filed the complaints Thursday in federal court in New York. Nineteen men boarded four commercial airliners on Sept. 11 and hijacked them in suicide strikes on icons of U.S. political power. Two of the planes plowed into the twin towers, and another hit the Pentagon. A fourth crashed in Western Pennsylvania before it could target another site in Washington. The amended complaints followed a March 18 decision by Judge Alvin...