Emergency personel gather on a street by an apartment building on the east side of Manhattan that was hit by a small plane in New York. Fighter jets soared above US cities just minutes after a small plane slammed into a New York building, a move that showed the security measures undertaken to avoid a repeat of the attacks of September 11, 2001.[AFP]

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