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9/11 Timeline |
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Event |
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7:59 |
AA 11 takes off from Boston's Logan International
Airport |
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8:14 |
UAL 175 takes off from Logan |
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8:20 |
AA 11 ceases its transponder signal |
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AA 77 takes off from Washington's Dulles
International Airport |
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8:28 |
AA 11 veers off course |
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8:38 |
Boston ATC informs NORAD that AA 11 has been
hijacked |
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8:42 |
UAL 93 takes off from Newark International Airport |
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8:43 |
FAA notifies NORAD that UAL 175 has been hijacked |
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8:44 |
Otis ANG (Mass) scrambles fighters to intercept AA
11 |
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8:46 |
AA 11 strikes north tower of World Trade Center |
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AA 77 veers off course |
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8:47 |
NORAD is informed that WTC tower has been struck |
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8:50 |
UAL 175 veers off course |
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8:52 |
Otis ANG F-15 fighters take off to intercept UAL 175 |
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8:55 |
As he arrives at a Sarasota elementary school, Bush
is informed by senior advisor Karl Rove that a "small twin engine"
plane has struck the WTC |
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9:00 |
Bush is advised, via telephone, by National Security
Advisor Condoleeza Rice |
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AA 77 ceases its transponder signal |
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9:02 |
UAL 175 strikes south tower of WTC |
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9:05 |
Bush is advised by Chief of Staff Andrew Card of the
second plane striking the second WTC tower, while Bush is reading to children
in a classroom |
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9:06 |
Washington notifies all ATC of the suspected
hijacking of AA 11 |
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9:16 |
FAA notifies NORAD UAL 93 may have been hijacked |
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9:20 |
UAL 93 is hijacked, Tom Burnett reports the takeover
to his wife on a cell phone |
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9:24 |
Three F-16s from Langley AFB are scrambled to
protect Washington |
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9:25 |
FAA notifies NORAD that AA 77 may have been hijacked |
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FAA orders all commercial planes be grounded |
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9:27 |
NORAD orders jets scrambled from Langley AFB to
intercept AA 77 |
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9:28 |
Keyed microphone in cockpit of UAL 93 reveals
someone saying "Get out of here!" |
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9:30 |
Bush excuses himself from classroom to make a
statement that a "terrorist attack on America has occurred." |
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9:32 |
Cheney and other White House officials are ushered
to underground bunker |
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9:33 |
AA 77 crosses Capital Beltway |
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9:35 |
Three F-16s are airborne from Langley to intercept
AA 77 |
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AA 77 begins to execute difficult, high-speed
descending turn |
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UAL 93 files a new flight plan and reverses course,
heading towards Washington D.C. |
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9:38 |
AA 77 strikes Pentagon |
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9:45 |
White House is ordered evacuated |
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9:49 |
F-16s arrive over Washington D.C. |
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9:40 |
UAL 93 ceases its transponder signal |
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9:41 |
On cell phone from UAL 93, Marion Britton tells
friend that two people have been killed |
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9:55 |
Air Force One is airborne, en route to D.C. |
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9:58 |
All cell phone calls from UAL 93 cease as
confrontation with hijackers begins |
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9:59 |
WTC south tower collapses |
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10:06 |
UAL 93 crashes in rural Pennsylvania |
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10:28 |
WTC north tower collapses |
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10:41 |
Air Force One is diverted to Barksdale, Louisiana in
response to a false threat |
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Key: |
AA 11 (WTC North Tower) |
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UAL 175 (WTC South Tower) |
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AA 77 (Pentagon) |
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UAL 93 (Pennsylvania) |
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Bush administration |
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FAA/NORAD |
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