September 11 Timeline
 

September 11 Timeline

September 11 Timeline
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The September 11 timeline chronicles an hour by hour timeline of the events which occurred on September 11, 2001 in the cities of New York and Washington when a series of terrorist attacks were made on the United States of America. The date is also referred to as September 11th or 9/11 & the World Trade Center Timeline

  Hour by Hour September 11This day in History changed the world. 
     
  6.00 am
7.00 am
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  • Mohamed Atta & Abdulaziz al-Omari board plane from Portland International Jetport, Portland, Maine and 45 minutes later arrive at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts and prepare to transfer planes to Los Angeles, California
 
     
  7.00 am
8.00 am
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  • Mohamed Atta & Abdulaziz al-Omari board American Airlines Flight 11 to Los Angeles, California
  • Other hijackers also board American Airlines Flight 11, a fully fuelled Boeing 767 plane
  • Flight 11: Airlines Flight 11 Boeing 767 plane held 81 passengers and 11 crew members
 
     
  8.00 am
9.00 am
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  • Flight 11 ignores air traffic controller's instruction to climb to 35,000 feet
  • 5 hijackers board another plane at Boston Logan airport: United Airlines Flight 175, another fully fuelled Boeing 767 plane
  • Flight 175: United Airlines Flight 175 Boeing 767 plane held 56 passengers and 9 crew members bound for Los Angeles, California
  • Flight 11: 2 flight attendants are stabbed by the hijackers
  • Flight 11: Betty Ong, a flight attendant, alerts American Airlines
  • Flight 11: The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) realise that Flight 11 has been hijacked
  • Flight 77: 5 hijackers board another plane, American Airlines Flight 77, at Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Virginia: United Airlines Flight 77, a fully fuelled Boeing 757 plane
  • Flight 77: American Airlines Flight 77 plane held 58 passengers and 6 crew members bound for Los Angeles, California
  • Flight 11: A radio transmission from the hijackers on Flight 11 meant for the plane's cabin is heard by air traffic controllers. Boston Center flight controllers alert other flight control centers
  • Flight 11: Flight 11 makes a 100-degree turn in the direction of New York City
  • 8.37 am: NORAD is alerted and 2 F15 pilots begin to suit up
  • Flight 93: 8:42: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 departs from Newark International Airport
  • Flight 93: United Airlines Flight 93 held 37 passengers, including 4 hijackers, and 7 crew members bound for San Francisco International Airport
  • Flight 175: Approx 8.45am - Flight 175 is hijacked
  • Flight 11: Two F-15 fighter jets scramble from Otis Air National Guard Base to intercept Flight 11, but its location is unknown
  • Flight 11: 8:46:30 - Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99
  • The media starts to report the incident
  • Flight 77: The plane is hijacked just before 9.00am and turns south over Ohio
  • President George W. Bush is at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Condoleezza Rice informs him that the World Trade Centre has been hit by an airplane
  • Flight 77: Flight 77 travels undetected toward Washington, D.C.
  • Flight 175: United Airlines Flight 175 hits the south tower of the World Trade Center
 
     
  9.00 am
10.00 am
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  • Flight 175: 9.05 - United Airlines Flight 175 hits the south tower of the World Trade Center at at about 590 mph
  • Evacuation of the Twin Towers begins
  • President George W. Bush is in a classroom when Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to the president that a second plane hit the second tower of the World Trade Centre and that
    America is under attack
  • The FAA closes down all New York City-area airports
  • All bridges and tunnels are closed in New York City
  • President George W. Bush calls the crashes "an apparent terrorist attack on our country..."
  • Flight 77: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon and one of the building's five sides collapses
  • The White House and the Capitol are evacuated
  • Flight 93: 9:28: Hijackers storm the cockpit on Flight 93
  • 9:45: United States airspace is shut down
  • Air Force One leaves Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport
  • 9.59: The south tower of the Twin Towers World Trade Center collapses 56 minutes after the impact of Flight 175
 
     
  10.00 am
11.00 am
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  • Flight 93: 10:00 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashes just north of the Somerset County Airport, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
    • It later transpired that passengers had learned about the World Trade Center and Pentagon crashes on cell phones and had planned to resist the hijackers
    • The 9/11 Commission believed that the target of Flight 93 was either the United States Capitol building or the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • President George W.Bush, aboard Air Force One, tells Vice President Cheney that he has authorized aircraft to be shot down if necessary
  • 10:28 a.m.: The north tower of the Twin Towers World Trade Center collapses 1 hour, 41 minutes and 45 seconds after the impact of Flight 11
  • The Marriott Hotel, located at the base of the Twin Towers, is also destroyed
  • New York mayor Rudy Giuliani orders an evacuation of Lower Manhattan
 
     
  11.00 am
12.00 pm
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  • The airlines confirm the loss of their aircrafts
  • The border between the U.S. and Mexico is placed on highest alert
 
     
  12.00 pm
1.00 pm
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  • The airspace over the United States is clear of all commercial and private flights
 
     
  1.00 pm
2.00 pm
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  • President Bush puts the U.S. military on high alert worldwide (known as Force Protection Condition Delta) saying "Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts..."
  • President George W. Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base for Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base, home to the U...S... Strategic Command
  • Mayor Rudy Giuliani is asked to estimate the number of casualties at the World Trade Center at a press conference.  Mayor Rudy Giuliani replies, "More than any of us can bear."
  • 2:50: President Bush arrives at Offutt Air Force Base, Bellevue, Nebraska to convene a National Security Council teleconference
 
     
  4.00 pm
5.00 pm

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  • 4:30 pm: President Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for Washington
  • The City of New York announces that 200 fire-fighters have been killed and 78 police officers are missing
 
     
  5.00 pm
6.00 pm
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  • 5:20pm: 7 World Trade Center, also known as the Salomon Bros., a 47-story building collapses
 
     
  6.00 pm
7.00 pm
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  • 6:54: President George W. Bush arrives at the White House
 
     
  7.00 pm
8.00 pm
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  • Police and fire-fighters continue their brave efforts to locate survivors in the rubble that had been the twin towers continue
 
     
  8.00 pm
9.00 pm
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  • 8:30: President Bush addresses the nation from the White House
 
     
  9.00 pm
10.00 pm
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  • George W. Bush and his advisers have evidence that Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban are behind the terrorist attacks
 
     
  11.00 pm
12.00 pm
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  • 11:30pm: President Bush enters into his daily journal: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today...We think it's Osama bin Laden."
 
     
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