The September 11, 2001 attacks, in addition to being a unique act of aggression, constituted a media event on a scale not seen since the advent of civilian global satellite links, round-the-clock television news organizations and the instant worldwide reaction and debate made possible by the Internet. Due to these modern global communications links, most of the events listed below were known by a large portion of the planet's population in near realtime. The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... September 11, 2001 attacks timeline Background History 1972: One World Trade Center completed. ... At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States strongest allies in west Asia are Turkey (a member of NATO), Israel and Egypt. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... All times, except where otherwise noted, in New York Time (EDT). ... 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Tuesday, September 11, 2001

September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

6:00 AM

6:02: Mohammed Atta flies Colgan Air (Portland International Jetport, Portland, Maine to Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts), along with Abdulaziz al-Omari. It is reported that Atta broke into a fight in the parking lot of Portland International Jetport ^{[citation needed]}. Mohammed Atta is a name commonly used to refer to the following individuals: Mohamed Atta al Sayed was the Al-Qaeda suicide pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. ... Colgan Air is a regional airline of the United States. ... PWM logo Portland International Jetport (IATA: PWM, ICAO: KPWM) is a public airport located 2 miles (3 km) west of Portland, in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. ... Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. ... KBOS is the airport identification code. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... This photograph of Abdulaziz al-Omari was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ...

6:45: Atta calls Marwan al-Shehhi, the hijacker of Flight 175, to confirm the attacks are on while sitting on Logan International Airport. This photograph of Marwan al-Shehhi was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... United Airlines Flight 175 was a morning flight that regularly flew from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California (BOS-LAX) route. ...

7:00 AM

7:59: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, takes off from Logan International Airport bound for Los Angeles, California. It is late. Flight 11 redirects here. ... British Airways Boeing 767-300 The Boeing 767 is a commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ... KBOS is the airport identification code. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ...

8:00 AM

8:13: The last radio communication is made from Flight 11. A recording of what is believed to be Atta's voice says, "Nobody move. Everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet." The flight path begins to stray away from the scheduled one and moves southwards. It is also reported that Flight 11's transponder signal is turned off at this time, but it was later found that this did not happen until 8:21 [1][2][3]. In telecommunication, the term transponder (sometimes abbreviated to XPDR or TPDR) has the following meanings: An automatic device that receives, amplifies, and retransmits a signal on a different frequency (see also broadcast translator). ...

8:14: United Airlines Flight 175, another fully-fueled Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and nine crew members, departs from Boston Logan airport, also bound for Los Angeles. United Flight 175 crashes into the World Trade Center United Airlines Flight 175 was a morning flight that regularly flew from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California (Boston–Los Angeles route). ...

8:19: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11 [4] alerts American Airlines of a hijacking in progress. Betty Ong Betty Ann Ong (February 5, 1956 – September 11, 2001), born in San Francisco of Harry Ong, senior and Yee-gum Oy, was a Chinese-American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part... American Airlines and American Eagle aircraft at San Juan American Airlines is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers transported and fleet size, and the second-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues. ...

8:20: The FAA's Boston Center flight controllers decide that Flight 11 has probably been hijacked. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers and six crew, departs from Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Virginia, for Los Angeles. FAA may refer to: Federal Aviation Administration in the United States Fleet Air Arm in the UK Royal Navy Fuerza Aérea Argentina in Argentina This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Security camera image showing American Airlines Flight 77 (far right) just before impact. ... American Airlines Boeing 757 Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-232 at LAX in August 2003. ... Washington Dulles International Airport (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD) serves the greater Washington, D.C./metropolitan area. ... Official website: http://www. ... Loudoun County, Virginia is part of the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

8:21 Flight 11's transponder signal is turned off but the plane remains on radar screens. (Prior to the 9/11 Commission's report, news organizations reported this time as 8:13 or immediately thereafter.) The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. ...

8:24 Flight 11 makes a 100-degree turn to the south heading toward New York City.

8:25: Boston Center flight controllers alert other flight control centers regarding Flight 11; however, NORAD is not yet alerted. The NORAD shield. ...

8:34: Boston Center contacts Otis Air National Guard Base at Cape Cod on the hijacking of Flight 11. Otis Air National Guard Base (ANGB) (ICAO is KFMH) is an Air National Guard station located within the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR), a military training facility, located on the upper western portion of Cape Cod. ...

8:37: Flight 175 confirms sighting of hijacked Flight 11 to flight controllers, 10 miles (16 km) to its south.

8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies NEADS (Northeast American Defense Sector), the northeast sector of NORAD, of the hijacking of Flight 11. The controller requests military help to intercept the aircraft.

8:42: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, takes off with 37 passengers and seven crew members from Newark International Airport, bound for San Francisco International Airport, following a 40-minute delay due to congested runways. Its flight path initially takes it close to the World Trade Center before moving away westwards. United Airlines Flight 93 was a Boeing 757-222, N591UA, flight that regularly flew from Newark International Airport (now known as Newark Liberty International Airport) in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport continuing on to Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on a different aircraft. ... Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA Airport Code EWR; ICAO Airport Code KEWR) is an international airport within the city limits of both Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. ... FAA diagram of SFO SFO redirects here. ...

8:42: The FAA's New York Center requests information about Flight 11 over the radio. Flight 175 responds: "Ah, we heard a suspicious transmission on our departure out of Boston, ah, with someone, ah, it sounded like someone keyed the mikes and said ah everyone stay in your seats." New York Center acknowledges and says it will pass the information on. Shortly after Flight 175 is hijacked and also begins to move southwards.

8:46: Two F-15 fighter jets are scrambled from Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, intended to intercept flight 11. Because Flight 11's transponder is off, United States Air Force pilots do not know which direction to travel to meet the plane. NEADS spends the next several minutes watching their radar screens in anticipation of Flight 11 returning a radar contact. The Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas) F-15 Eagle is an American-built all-weather tactical fighter designed to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerospace branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ...

8:46:26: Flight 11 crashes at roughly 490 mph (790 km/h or 425 knots) into the north side of the north tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 94 and 98. (Many early accounts gave times between 8:45 and 8:50). The aircraft enters the tower mostly intact. It plows to the building core, severing all three gypsum-encased stairwells, dragging combustibles with it. A massive shock wave travels down to the ground and up again. The combustibles and the remnants of the aircraft are ignited by the burning fuel. Since the building lacks a traditional full cage frame and depends almost entirely on the strength of a narrow structural core running up the center, the fire at the center of the impact zone is in a position to compromise the integrity of all internal columns. People below the severed stairwells in the north tower start to evacuate; no-one above the impact zone is able to do so. French filmmaker Jules Naudet and Czech immigrant Pavel Hlava records the crash of Flight 11 into the North Tower with their cameras from different locations. WTC redirects here. ... Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. // Chemical structure Heating gypsum to between 100°C and 150°C (302°F) partially dehydrates the mineral by driving off exactly 75% of the water contained in its chemical structure. ... Jules Naudet and Gédéon Naudet are French filmmakers who were in New York City at the time of the September 11 attacks. ... Pavel Hlava is a Czech immigrant who videotaped the first plane approaching the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. ...

8:46 to 10:29: At least 100 people (some accounts say as many as 250), primarily in the north tower, trapped by fire and smoke in the upper floors, jump to their deaths. There is some evidence that large central portions of the floor near the impact zone in the north tower collapsed soon after the plane hit. ^{[citation needed]} One person at street level, firefighter Daniel Thomas Suhr, is hit by a jumper and dies. No form of airborne evacuation is attempted as smoke is too dense for a successful landing on the roof of either tower.

8:49:34: The first news and radio organizations report an explosion or incident at the World Trade Center. CNN breaks into a commercial at 8:49. CNN headlines first read 'World Trade Center disaster.' Carol Lin, who was the first anchor to break the news of the attacks, said: "Yeah. This just in. You're looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island of Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center." Later, Sean Murtagh, CNN vice-president of finance, in an on-air phone call, said from his office in the CNN New York bureau that a large passenger commercial jet hit the World Trade Center. Murtagh was the first network employee on the air. The first email bulletins of breaking news from CNN and MSNBC report "fire at tower of World Trade Center". Both CNN and MSNBC's websites receive such heavy traffic, that many servers collapse. BBC News' website is active and shows a picture of the North Tower on fire. Minutes later, email news bulletins revise the reports of fire to a plane crash. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Carol Lin Carol Lin anchors CNN Saturday Night and CNN Sunday Night on CNN USA. She is based in Atlanta. ... The CNN Center is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN). ...

8:50: NEADS is notified that a plane has struck the World Trade Center as they continue to locate the flight on radar. The Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), located at what used to be Griffis Air Force Base in Rome, New York, is responsible for providing detection and air defense for more than 3,000 miles of US coast line from Maine to Virginia. ...

8:53: The F-15s at Otis Air Force Base are airborne. Still lacking an intercept vector to Flight 11 (and not aware that it has already been crashed), they are sent to military controlled airspace off Long Island and ordered to remain in a holding pattern until between 9:09 and 9:13.

8:55 (approx.): Announcements are made by officials in the still-undamaged south tower of the World Trade Center that the building is 'secure', and that people may return to their offices, over the building-wide PA system. Some do not hear it; others ignore it and evacuate anyway; others congregate in common areas like the 78th floor sky lobby.

9:00 AM

Second tower about to be hit by Flight 175.

9:03:13: Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph (950 km/h) into the south side of the south tower, banked between floors 78 and 84. By this time, several media organizations are covering the first plane crash; millions see the impact live. Parts of the plane leave the building at its east and north sides, falling to the ground six blocks away. A massive evacuation begins in the south tower below its impact zone. One of the stairwells in the south tower remains unblocked above the impact, but filled with smoke. This led many people to mistakenly go upwards towards the roof for a rooftop rescue that never came. CNN's headline now reads 'Second plane crashes into World Trade Center'. Image File history File links Flight_175_TV_news. ... Image File history File links Flight_175_TV_news. ...

George W. Bush's motorcade entering Emma E. Booker Elementary School

9:03: President George W. Bush enters a classroom of Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, as part of a scheduled visit to promote education and the Bush administration education policies. US President George W. Bush enters Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota, Florida on September 11, 2001. ... US President George W. Bush enters Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota, Florida on September 11, 2001. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ... The huge plume of smoke and fire seen coming from the North Tower. ... Cà dZan - a 1925 Sarasota residence that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places Sarasota is a city in the central west coast of Florida, USA. The Gulf of Mexico is to the west and Sarasota Bay separates portions of this city that is composed of a...

9:03: FAA's New York Center notifies NORAD (NEADS) of the hijacking of Flight 175. The Federal Aviation Administration is the entity of the United States government which regulates and oversees all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. // Activities Along with the European Joint Aviation Authorities, the FAA is one of the two main agencies worldwide responsible for the certification of new aircraft. ... The NORAD shield. ...

9:04 (approximately): The FAA's Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center stops all departures from airports in its jurisdiction (New England and eastern New York State).

9:06: The FAA bans takeoffs of all flights bound to or through the airspace of New York Center from airports in that Center and the three adjacent Centers - Boston, Cleveland, and Washington. This is referred to as a First Tier groundstop and covers the Northeast from North Carolina north and as far west as eastern Michigan. Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 560 miles (901 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 9. ... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 10th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ...

George W. Bush being told about the second plane hitting the WTC

9:06: After brief introductions to the Booker elementary students, President Bush is about to begin reading with the students when Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to the president, "A second plane hit the other tower, and America's under attack." The president stated later that he decided to continue the lesson rather than alarm the students. US President George W. Bush being told about the second plane hitting the WTC in a classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota, Florida on September 11, 2001. ... US President George W. Bush being told about the second plane hitting the WTC in a classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota, Florida on September 11, 2001. ... It has been suggested that Assistant to the President of the United States be merged into this article or section. ... Andy Card Andrew Hill Card Jr. ...

9:08: The FAA bans all takeoffs nationwide for flights going to or through New York Center airspace. ABC reports later that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the New York-area airports, asked the FAA for permission to close down the New York Center airspace. This article is about the American news organization. ... The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a bi-state agency (operated pursuant to an interstate compact) that runs most of the regional transportation infrastructure including the bridges, tunnels, airports and seaports within the New York-New Jersey Port District. ...

9:13: The F-15 fighters from Otis Air Force base leave military airspace near Long Island, bound for Manhattan.

9:16: President Bush leaves the classroom he has been in since 9:03, and is whisked to another classroom, commandeered by the secret service. It contains a telephone, television showing the news coverage, and several senior staff members. Bush accumulates information and prepares brief remarks.

9:20: CNN's headline makes reference to foul play for the first time: 'AP: FBI investigating report of plane hijacking'. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Associated Press logo Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency, which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

9:22: CNN headline: 'AP: Plane was hijacked before crashed'.

9:24: The FAA notifies NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector about the suspected hijacking of Flight 77. The FAA and NORAD establish an open line to discuss Flight 77, and shortly thereafter Flight 93.

9:25: The Otis-based F-15s establish an air patrol over Manhattan.

9:26: The FAA bans takeoffs of all civilian aircraft regardless of destination - a national groundstop (the first such grounding in American history). All military bases in the United States are ordered to increase its threat conditions to Delta status.

9:28: Hijackers storm the cockpit on Flight 93 and take over the flight. The entry of the hijackers is overheard by flight controllers at Cleveland.

George Bush giving his first public statements on the attacks.

Fire at the Pentagon

9:29: President Bush makes his first public statements about the attacks, in front of an audience of about 200 teachers and students at the elementary school. He states that he will be going back to Washington, that "we've had a national tragedy", and leads a moment of silence. After the speech, he is bound for Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and Air Force One. US President George W. Bush makes his first public statements about the September 11th attacks, in front of an audience of about 200 teachers and students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota, Florida on September 11, 2001. ... US President George W. Bush makes his first public statements about the September 11th attacks, in front of an audience of about 200 teachers and students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota, Florida on September 11, 2001. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport SRQ FAA diagram Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (IATA: SRQ, ICAO: KSRQ) is located in both Sarasota, Florida (terminal) and Bradenton, Florida (airfield). ... Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. ...

9:35 Flight 93 reverses direction and starts flying eastwards.

9:37:46: Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon and starts a violent fire. The section of the Pentagon hit consists mainly of newly renovated, unoccupied offices. All 64 persons on board are killed, as are 125 Pentagon personnel. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). ... A composite aerial view showing ongoing renovations to The Pentagon. ...

9:39: CNN posts 'Report of fire at Pentagon', its first reference to the incident at the Pentagon. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...

9:45: United States airspace is shut down. No civilian aircraft are allowed to take off, and all aircraft in flight are ordered to land at the nearest airport as soon as practical. All international flights headed for the U.S. are redirected to Canada. Transport Canada, the Canadian transportation agency, follows the American lead and closes down their airspace. The FAA announces that civilian flights are suspended until at least noon September 12, while Transport Canada gives similar orders, but until further notice, to take in diverted U.S.-bound international flights, launching the agency's "Operation Yellow Ribbon." The groundings last until September 14. Military and medical flights continue. This is the fourth time all commercial flights in the U.S. have been stopped, and the first time a suspension was unplanned. All previous suspensions were military-related (Sky Shield I-III), from 1960 to 1962. Many newspapers (including The New York Times) mistakenly print that this is the first time flights have been suspended. This was also the first time commercial flights in Canada have been stopped. Transport Canada is the department within the government of Canada which is responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Aerial view of Gander International Airport during Operation Yellow Ribbon. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

9:45: The White House and the Capitol are evacuated and closed. The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. ... The United States Capitol Capitol Hill redirects here. ...

9:50 (approximately): The Associated Press reports that Flight 11 was apparently hijacked after departure from Boston's Logan Airport. Within an hour this is confirmed for both Flight 11 and Flight 175. Associated Press logo Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...

9:57: President Bush leaves Sarasota, Florida, on Air Force One. The plane reaches cruising altitude and circles for approximately 40 minutes while the destination of the plane is discussed.

9:59:04: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 55 minutes 51 seconds after the impact of Flight 175. Its destruction is viewed and heard by a vast television and radio audience. As the roar of the collapse goes silent, tremendous gray-white clouds of pulverized concrete and gypsum rush through the streets. Most observers think a new explosion or impact has produced smoke and debris that now obscures the south tower. When the wind finally clears the immediate space, it is plain to see that the tower is gone.

Further information: Collapse of the World Trade Center

On September 11, 2001, the two main towers of the World Trade Center complex were each hit by hijacked commercial aircraft as part of the 9/11 attacks. ...

10:00 AM

10:03: United Airlines Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The exact time is subject to some dispute — a report on seismographic data readings by Won-Young Kim and Gerald R. Baum puts the time of impact at 10:06:05. The 9/11 Commission argued "the seismic data on which [Kim and Baum based their] estimate are far too weak in signal-to-noise ratio and far too speculative in terms of signal source to be used as a means of contradicting the impact time [of 10:03] established by the very accurate combination of FDR, CVR, ATC, radar, and impact site data sets."^[1] Black box recordings, radar analysis, satellite data^[2] and at least one telephone call indicate 10:03:11. Later reports indicate that passengers had learned about the World Trade Center and Pentagon crashes on cell phones and at least three were planning on resisting the hijackers; the resistance was confirmed by Flight 93's cockpit voice recording, on which the hijackers are heard making their decision to down the plane before the passengers succeed in breaching the cockpit door. The 9/11 Commission believed that Flight 93's target was either the United States Capitol building or the White House in Washington, D.C.. United Airlines Flight 93 was a Boeing 757-222, N591UA, flight that regularly flew from Newark International Airport (now known as Newark Liberty International Airport) in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport continuing on to Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on a different aircraft. ... Nickname: Steel City, Iron City, City of Champions, City of Bridges, City of Colleges Location in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country State County United States Pennsylvania Allegheny County Founded 1758 Mayor Luke Ravenstahl (D) Area    - City 151. ... Somerset County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ... Communications problems and successes played an important role in the September 11, 2001 attacks and their aftermath. ... The United States Capitol Capitol Hill redirects here. ... The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. ...

Reports stated an eyewitness saw a white plane resembling a fighter jet circling the site minutes after the crash. These reports have limited credibility, although fighter jets had been scrambled to defend the Washington D.C. region earlier. These jets stayed within the immediate D.C. area.

10:10: Part of the Pentagon collapses.

10:13: Thousands are involved in an evacuation of the United Nations complex in New York. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

10:15 (approximately): The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is reported to take responsibility for the crashes, but this is denied by a senior officer of the group soon after. Flag of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. ...

10:28:31: The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses. Probably due to the destruction of the gypsum-encased stairwells on the impact floors (most skyscraper stairwells are encased in reinforced concrete), no one above the impact zone in the north tower survives. The Marriott Hotel, located at the base of the two towers, is also destroyed. The second collapse is also viewed live on television and heard on radio. The north tower collapses 1 hour 41 minutes 51 seconds after the impact of Flight 11. On September 11, 2001, the two main towers of the World Trade Center complex were each hit by hijacked commercial aircraft as part of the 9/11 attacks. ... The Marriott World Trade Center Hotel was a 24 story steel framed building with 825 rooms. ...

10:35 (approximately): Police are reportedly alerted about a bomb in a car outside the State Department in Washington, D.C.. Later reports claim that nothing happened at the State Department. The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ...

10:35: Air Force One, carrying the president, turns for Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana. Location in the state of Louisiana Coordinates: Parish Caddo Mayor Keith Hightower Area    - City 117. ...

10:39: Another hijacked jumbo jet is claimed to be headed for Washington, D.C. F-15s are scrambled and patrol the airspace above Washington, D.C. while other fighter jets sweep the airspace above New York City. They have orders, first issued by Vice President Cheney and later confirmed by President Bush, to shoot down any potentially dangerous planes that do not comply with orders given to them via radio. The Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas) F-15 Eagle is an American-built all-weather tactical fighter designed to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat. ...

10:45: CNN reports that a mass evacuation of Washington D.C. and New York has been started. A few minutes later, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani orders an evacuation of lower Manhattan. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...

10:50: Five stories of part of the Pentagon collapse due to the fire.

10:53: New York's primary elections are canceled.

11:00 AM

Canadian airports from coast to coast were stacked up with international flights that were bound for the United States

11:00: Transport Canada halts all aircraft departures until further notice, except for police, military, and humanitarian flights, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon. The operation was well underway as international flights headed for the U.S. had already started to land at Canadian airports, beginning at CFB Goose Bay. Fourteen other airports follow, including Halifax, Lester B. Pearson in Toronto, Montréal-Dorval, and Vancouver. Image File history File links Scene at Vancouver International Airport on September 11, 2001, as 34 flights coming from Asia are diverted there after closure of U.S. airspace. ... Image File history File links Scene at Vancouver International Airport on September 11, 2001, as 34 flights coming from Asia are diverted there after closure of U.S. airspace. ... Aerial view of Gander International Airport during Operation Yellow Ribbon. ... Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Goose Bay, also referred to as 5 Wing Goose Bay or Goose Bay Airport, (IATA: YYR, ICAO: CYYR) is an air force base in eastern Canada, located in the town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. ... Halifax International Airport (also known as HIA) is an airport in Enfield, Nova Scotia, and serves Halifax Regional Municipality and central Nova Scotia as well as nearby areas of the Maritime provinces. ... Toronto Pearson International Airport, located in Mississauga, Ontario, immediately west of Toronto, is Canadas busiest and largest airport. ... Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal) or Montréal-Trudeau for short, is an international airport serving Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Vancouver International Airport (IATA: YVR, ICAO: CYVR) is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, about 15 kilometres driving distance from downtown Vancouver. ...

11:15 (approximately): Reports that the F-15s over Washington had shot something down. There was no confirmation of these reports.

11:16: American Airlines confirms the loss of its two aircrafts. American Airlines and American Eagle aircraft at San Juan American Airlines is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers transported and fleet size, and the second-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues. ...

11:26: United Airlines confirms the loss of Flight 93 and states that it is "deeply concerned" about Flight 175[5]. Various United Airlines tails United Airlines, the primary subsidiary of the UAL Corporation, is a major airline of the United States headquartered in unincorporated Elk Grove Township, Illinois, near Chicagos OHare International Airport, the airlines largest traffic hub. ...

11:53: United Airlines confirms the loss of its two aircraft.

11:55: The border between the U.S. and Mexico is on highest alert, but is not closed.

12:00 PM

12:00 (approximately): President Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana. Many assume he will be on his way back to Washington, D.C. after this layover. Bush makes a brief and informal initial statement to the effect that terrorism on U.S. soil will not be tolerated, said that "freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended." He also said that the "United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." Barksdale Air Force Base is a United States military base near Bossier City, Louisiana. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ...

12:02: The Taliban government of Afghanistan denounces the attacks. Flag flown by the Taliban. ...

12:04: LAX, the intended destination of Flights 11, 77 and 175, is shut down. Runway layout at LAX LAX redirects here. ...

12:15: San Francisco International Airport, the intended destination of Flight 93, is shut down. FAA diagram of SFO SFO redirects here. ...

12:15 (approximately): The airspace over the 48 contiguous United States is clear of all commercial and private flights.

1:00 PM

1:00 (approximately): At the Pentagon, fire crews are still fighting fires. The early response to the attack had been coordinated from the National Military Command Center, but that had to be evacuated when it began to fill with smoke.

1:04: President Bush puts the U.S. military on high alert worldwide (known as Threat Condition Delta). He speaks from Barksdale Air Force Base and leaves for Strategic Air Command bunker in Nebraska. Later in the day several commentators and journalists, most notably ABC's Peter Jennings, express frustration with Bush's seemingly random movements. After the arrival in Nebraska, Jennings asks the ABC correspondent on the scene exactly where the President is. She answers, "Peter, the President has gone down the rabbit hole." The Strategic Air Command or SAC (1946-1992) was the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of Americas bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal, as well as the infrastructure necessary to support their operations (such as tanker aircraft to fuel the bombers... Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American news anchor for the ABC network. ...

1:27: Mayor Anthony A. Williams of Washington, D.C., declares a state of emergency; the D.C. National Guard arrives on site. Anthony Williams Anthony A. Tony Williams (born July 28, 1951) is a United States politician who has served as mayor of Washington, D.C. since 1999. ... Seal of the National Guard Bureau Seal of the Army National Guard Seal of the Air National Guard Seal of the National Guard Missile Defense The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air...

2:00 PM

2:30: Senator John McCain characterizes attack as an "act of war." John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician and veteran. ...

2:49: At a press conference New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is asked to estimate the number of casualties at the World Trade Center. He replies, "More than any of us can bear." Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about New Yorks status two years after the September 11, 2001 attacks. ...

4:00 PM

4:00: National news outlets report that high officials in the federal intelligence community are stating that Osama bin Laden is suspect number one. Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957 [1]), most commonly known as Osama bin Laden is a militant Islamist and also the founder of al-Qaeda. ...

4:25: The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the American Stock Exchange report that they will remain closed Wednesday September 12. New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , also nicknamed the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world in dollar volume and second largest by number of companies listed. ... NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) is an American stock exchange situated in New York. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ...

5:00 PM

5:20: 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building that had sustained what was originally thought to be light damage in the fall of the twin towers and was earlier reported on fire, collapses. The building contained New York's emergency operations center, operated by the NYC Office of Emergency Management, originally intended to respond to disasters such as the September 11 terrorist attacks. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Originally formed in 1996 as part of the Mayors Office under Rudy Giuliani, the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) became an independent agency, headed by a Commissioner who reports to the Mayor, by a vote of City residents in 2001. ...

6:00 PM

6:00: Explosions and tracer fire are reported in Kabul, Afghanistan, by CNN and the BBC. The Northern Alliance, involved in a civil war with the Taliban government, is later reported to have attacked Kabul's airport with helicopter gunships. A view of the old city Kabul Kabul (, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... The Northern Alliance is a term used by the western media, Taliban and Al Qaida to identify the military coalition of various Afghan groups fighting the Taliban. ...

6:00: Iraq announces the attacks are the fruit of "U.S. crimes against humanity" in an official announcement on state television.

6:00: The last of the aircraft headed for the U.S. to land at a Canadian airport lands at Vancouver International, since it was over the Pacific. View of the Pacific Ocean from Oregon. ...

6:54: President Bush arrives at the White House.

7:00 PM

7:00: Efforts to locate survivors in the rubble that had been the twin towers continue. Fleets of ambulances are lined up to transport the injured to nearby hospitals, but stand empty. 'Ground Zero' is the exclusive domain of New York City's Fire Department and Police Department, despite volunteer steel and construction workers who stand ready to move large quantities of debris quickly. Relatives and friends of victims or likely victims, many displaying enlarged photographs of the missing printed on home computer printers, have appeared around New York. The New York Armory at Lexington Avenue and 26th Street and Union Square Park at 14th Street become centers of vigil. The Fire Department, City of New York (FDNY) has the responsibility of protecting the New York Citys five boroughs from fires and fire hazards, as well as preventing disasters like The Station nightclub fire in nearby Rhode Island, and the trampling deaths at an overcrowded building in Chicago. ... The New York City Police Department (NYPD) , the largest police department in the United States, has primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City. ...

7:30: U.S. Government denies any responsibility for the reported explosions in Kabul.

8:00 PM

8:30: President Bush addresses the nation from the White House. Among his phrases: "Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts," "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve," and "The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts...we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

As Bush speaks, members of Congress told CNN that during private briefings with senior administration officials, they were told that the administration had enough evidence that it was "confident" that the attacks were the work of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...

9:00 PM

9:00: President Bush meets his full National Security Council, followed roughly half an hour later by a meeting with a smaller group of key advisers. Bush and his advisers have evidence that Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks. CIA Director Tenet says that al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan are essentially one and the same. Bush says, "Tell the Taliban we're finished with them."

10:00 PM

10:00: There are reports, later proved wrong, of survivors buried in rubble in New York making cell phone calls.

References

1. ^ National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Notes, 1 "We Have Some Planes", note #168.
2. ^ National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, "We Have Some Planes," 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense, United Airlines Flight 93.

Further reading

• Bernstein, Richard B. (2003). Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001. Times Books. ISBN 0-8050-7410-4.

External links

• "Complete 911 Timeline" minute by minute - Provided by the Center for Cooperative Research.
• Washington Post, 27 January 2002 Details of discussions that took place between President Bush and his advisors on the night of September 11.
• September 11: Chronology of terror: CNN timeline published September 12.
• See a 3-D simulation of the last moments of American Airlines Flight 77