Time
Line for Sept... 11
Times are EDT and reflect actual, rather than
scheduled departure times of flights...
7:59 a...m... American Airlines flight 11 takes off from
Boston's Logan International Airport...
8:14 a...m... United Airlines flight 175 takes off from
Boston's Logan International Airport...
8:20 a...m... American Airlines flight 11 stops
transmitting IFF beacon signal while over the Hudson River...
8:20 a...m... American Airlines flight 77 departs Dulles
International Airport near Washington...
8:38 a...m... Boston air traffic center notifies NORAD
that American Airlines flight 11 has been hijacked...
8:43 a...m... FAA notifies NORAD that United Airlines
flight 175 has been hijacked...
8:44 a...m... Otis Air National Guard Base in Mass...
orders to fighters scrambled...
8:48 a...m... American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767
en route from Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles International with 92 people
onboard, slams into the north tower, 1 World Trade Center...
9:05 a...m... Approximately 18 minutes later, United
Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767 enroot from Boston to Los Angeles with 65
people onboard, hits the south tower, 2 World Trade Center...
9:21 a...m... New York City Port Authority closes all
bridges and tunnels in New York City...
9:24 a...m... President Bush calls the crashes "an
apparent terrorist attack on our country..."
9:32 a...m... New York Stock Exchange closed...
9:40 a...m... The FAA orders the entire nationwide air
traffic system shut down... All flights at U...S... airports are stopped...
9:43 a...m... American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757
enroute from Dulles Airport outside Washington to LAX with 58 passengers and six
crew members, crashes into the Pentagon... One of the building's five sides
collapses...
9:45 a...m... The White House is evacuated...
9:59 a...m... The south tower of the World Trade Center
collapses in a plume of ash and debris...
10:00 a...m... United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757
en route from Newark, NJ, to San Francisco with 38 passengers and seven crew
members, crashes just north of the Somerset County Airport, about 80 miles
southeast of Pittsburgh... Shortly before impact, a passenger called on his cell
phone from a locked bathroom: "We are being hijacked, we are being
hijacked!" At this time there was concern the plane was headed to Camp
David...
10:24 a...m... The FAA reports that all inbound
transatlantic flights are to be diverted to Canada...
10:28 a...m... The World Trade Center's north tower
collapses...
12:15 p...m... The United States closes some border
crossings with Canada and Mexico...
1:02 p...m... New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani orders an
evacuation of Manhattan south of Canal Street...
1:04 p...m... In a speech at Barksdale Air Force Base in
Louisiana, President Bush announces that security measures are being taken and
says: "Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those
responsible for these cowardly acts..."
1:44 p...m... The Navy dispatches aircraft carriers and
guided missile destroyers to New York and Washington... Around the country,
fighters, airborne radar and refueling planes scramble... The North American
Aerospace Defense Command goes to its highest alert...
1:44 p...m... President Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force
Base for Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base, home to the U...S... Strategic Command...
4:30 p...m... President Bush leaves Offutt Air Force
Base in Nebraska for Washington...
4:45 p...m... The City of New York announces that 200
firefighters have been killed and 78 police officers are missing...
5:20 p...m... Seven World Trade Center, a 47-story
tower, collapses from ancillary damage...
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