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A timeline of the morning of September 11, 2001
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n the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes bound for California. The planes departed from airports in Boston; Newark, NJ; and Washington, D.C. September 11 would become an infamous date in American and world history, and the events of that day would forever change the world. As the world commemorates the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the following timeline, courtesy of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, can help people fully understand how events unfolded on that late-summer morning two decades ago.
• 5:45 a.m.: Two of the hijackers
pass through security at Portland International Airport in Maine. The men will take a short flight to Boston Logan International Airport, where they will join three other hijackers and board American Airlines Flight 11.
• 6:00 a.m: Two of the hijacked planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, will eventually crash into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. The day was a significant one on the New York City political calendar, as polling stations opened at 6 a.m. for primary elections.
• 7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight
11 takes off from Boston with 11 crew members, 76 passengers and five hijackers on board. The plane, which will eventually crash into the North tower at the World Trade Center, is filled with more than 76,000 pounds of fuel.
• 8:15 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston with nine crew members, 51 passengers, and five hijackers on board. This flight also is loaded with 76,000 pounds of fuel.
• 8:19 a.m.: American Airlines ground
personnel are alerted by flight attendant Betty Ann Ong that Flight 11 is being hijacked. This call lasts roughly 25 minutes and Ong reports that the cockpit is unreachable. In the moments before Ong’s call, one of the hijackers stabbed Daniel M. Lewin, who was sitting in front of him in first class. Lewin is likely the first person killed in the 9/11 attacks.
• 8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight
77 takes off from Washington Dulles International Airport. The flight has 49,900 pounds of fuel and is carrying six crew members, 53 passengers and five hijackers.
• 8:21 a.m.: The transponder on Flight 11 is turned off. This device is meant to allow air traffic controllers to identify and monitor the flight path of a plane.
• 8:24 a.m.: One of the hijackers
of Flight 11 unwittingly broadcasts a message to air traffic controllers alerting them to the attacks. The hijacker was attempting to communicate with passengers and crew within the cabin.
• 8:30 a.m.: Around this time, roughly
80 people have already begun gathering on the 106th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center for a financial technology conference. The conference is one of many events on the Trade Center schedule that day.
• 8:37 a.m.: The Boston Air Traffic
Control Center alerts the military that a hijacking is under way.
• 8:42 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93
takes off from Newark International Airport. The flight was due to take off at roughly the same time as the other hijacked planes, but was delayed due to routine traffic. Seven crew members, 33 passengers and four hijackers are on board. The flight is filled with 48,700 pounds of fuel.
• 8:46 a.m.: Five hijackers crash Flight
11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Hundreds, including everyone on board the flight, are killed instantly. The crash severs all three emergency stairwells, trapping hundreds of people above the 91st floor.
• 8:46 a.m.: Police, paramedics and
firefighters are sent to the North Tower.
• 8:50 a.m.: While visiting an
elementary school in Florida, U.S. President George W. Bush is notified that a small plane has hit the North Tower.
• 8:52 a.m.: A flight attendant aboard
Flight 175 reaches a United Airlines operator in San Francisco and reports the flight is being hijacked. By 9 a.m., various passengers on Flight 175 have called family members.
• 8:55 a.m.: The Port Authority
• 9:42 a.m.: The Federal Aviation
• 8:59 a.m.: The Port Authority
• 9:45 a.m.: Evacuations at the White
informs people inside the South Tower via a public address system that the building is secure and there is no need to evacuate.
Police Department orders both towers evacuated. One minute later Captain Anthony Whitaker expands the order to include all civilians in the entire World Trade Center complex.
• 9:02 a.m.: An evacuation order is broadcast in the South Tower.
• 9:03 a.m.: Five hijackers crash Flight 175 into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower. All onboard the flight are killed, as are an unknown number of people inside the building. Two of the three emergency stairwells are impassable and most elevator cables are severed, trapping many people above the impact zone and inside elevator cars.
• 9:03 a.m.: A second call for
mobilization brings the total number of New York City Police Department officers responding to the scene to roughly 2,000. In addition, the FDNY issues a fifth alarm and deploys several hundred additional firefighters to the scene.
• 9:05 a.m.: President Bush is
informed that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
• 9:12 a.m.: Flight attendant Renée A. May calls her mother and tells her that hijackers have seized control of Flight 77. When May’s call is disconnected, she calls American Airlines.
• 9:30 a.m.: Amidst reports of
additional hijacked planes, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management at 7 World Trade Center is evacuated.
• 9:37 a.m.: Hijackers crash Flight 77
into the Pentagon. All 53 passengers and six crew members perish, and 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground are killed in the fire caused by the crash.
Administration grounds all flights, ordering all civilian planes in United States airspace to land. Departures also are prohibited. House and the U.S. Capitol begin. Both the House of Representatives and Senate are in session at the time the evacuation begins.
• 9:58 a.m.: Flight 93 is flying so low
to the ground that passenger Edward P. Felt is able to reach an emergency 911 operator in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
• 9:59 a.m.: The South Tower
collapses after burning for 56 minutes. The tower collapses in just 10 seconds.
• 9:59 a.m.: Continuity-of-government procedures are implemented for the first known time in American history.
• 10:03 a.m.: Four hijackers crash
Flight 93 into a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All 33 passengers and seven crew members on board perish. Passengers and crew had stormed the cockpit, and the plane ultimately crashes just 20 minutes’ flying time from Washington, D.C.
• 10:15 a.m.: The E Ring of the Pentagon collapses.
• 10:28 a.m.: The North Tower
collapses after burning for 102 minutes. More than 1,600 people are killed as a result of the attack on the North Tower.
• 11:02 a.m.: New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani urges the evacuation of lower Manhattan.
• 12:16 p.m.: The last flight still in the
air above the continental United States lands. Within two and a half hours, U.S. airspace has been cleared of roughly 4,500 commercial and general aviation planes.
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President George W. Bush’s address to the nation on September 11, 2001
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n the evening of September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush addressed a nation that earlier that day witnessed the deadliest terrorist attacks in world history. That morning, hijackers took control of four airplanes, ultimately crashing two into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City and another into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers and crew attempted to regain control of the plane from the hijackers. All passengers and crew on board all four flights died on September 11, and thousands of others on the ground lost their lives that day as well. It was under those conditions that President Bush delivered the following speech to a shaken nation.
Good evening. Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature. And we responded with the best of America — with the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could. Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government’s emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and it’s prepared. Our emergency teams are working in New York City and Washington, D.C. to help with local rescue efforts. Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the world from further attacks. The functions of our government continue without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington which had to be evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight, and will be open for business tomorrow. Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business, as well. The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance. America and our friends and allies join with all those who want peace and security in the world, and we stand together to win the war against terrorism. Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.”
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This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.
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including men, women and children from all walks of life, reacted to the attacks with sadness, horror, shock, and anger. Newspaper front pages throughout the United States and the world reflected those emotions on September 12. • The New York Times: U.S. Attacked: Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers And Hit Pentagon In Day Of Terror
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mong the more indelible images to emerge on September 11, 2001 was the sight of two planes crashing into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. Still photos and video footage of those planes flying into the Twin Towers were the first images of the attacks many Americans saw, and no one who watched events unfold that morning will ever forget those images. Though both the North and South Towers fell on that day, today the site where each tower once stood is a serene retreat in the bustling lower Manhattan neighborhood that was shaken to its core on the day of the attacks. The 9/11 Memorial was designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum notes that Arad and Walker’s proposal was chosen in a design competition that featured 5,201 submissions from 63 countries.
The 9/11 Memorial is located on the western side of the former World Trade Center where the Twin Towers once stood. Two enormous reflecting pools are part of the Memorial Plaza, which is where the North and South Towers once stood. The pools feature the two largest man-made
waterfalls in North America. Around the edges of the pools, the names of people who were killed in the 9/11 attacks in New York, the Pentagon, on Flight 93, and in the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center are etched in bronze.
In recognition of the crash sites, 400 swamp white oak trees were selected from nurseries located in New York, Pennsylvania and near Washington, D.C. These trees are located throughout the Memorial Plaza, providing a peaceful respite separate from the surrounding city. The Memorial Plaza also includes one Callery pear tree. That tree was discovered at Ground Zero weeks after the attacks and it was severely damaged. The tree, now known as the Survivor Tree, was nursed back to health by members of the New York City Parks and Recreation Department and returned to the World Trade Center site in 2010, where it still stands as an enduring symbol of resilience and perseverance. The 9/11 Memorial is free and open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. More information about the 9/11 Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum can be found at www.911memorial.org.
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mong the more indelible images to emerge from the terrorist attacks on September 11 are the photographs and video footage of two airplanes flying into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. At 8:46 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower. Both buildings would ultimately collapse, killing untold numbers of innocent people. The attack on 9/11 was the second terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in less than a decade. On February 26, 1993, approximately 1,200 pounds of explosives in a rental van parked in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center was detonated by a small cell of terrorists linked to a local radical mosque and an Islamist terror network. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum notes that the explosion created a five-story, 150-feet-wide crater. The attack injured more than 1,000 people and killed six, including Monica Rodriguez Smith, who was pregnant. The day of the attack was her last day of work before maternity leave. Two memorials, a fountain and a brass plaque bearing the names of the victims of the 1993 attack, were ultimately created to commemorate those who lost their lives. Each memorial was destroyed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, but a small piece of the fountain was recovered in the aftermath of 9/11. That piece was rededicated on February 26, 2005.
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t 10:03 t 10:03 a.m. a.m. onon September September 11,11, 2001, 2001, thethe last last of of four four planes planes that that were were hijacked hijacked earlier earlier that that morning morning crashed crashed into into a field a field near near thethe town town of of Shanksville, Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. The The people people behind behind thethe 9/11 9/11 attacks attacks later later claimed claimed thethe hijackers hijackers who who commandeered commandeered thethe plane plane intended intended to to crash crash it into it into thethe U.S. U.S. Capitol Capitol Building Building in in Washington, Washington, D.C., D.C., butbut passengers passengers and and crew crew stormed stormed thethe cockpit, cockpit, prompting prompting thethe hijackers hijackers to to crash crash thethe plane plane into into thethe field, field, which which is is less less than than 2020 minutes’ minutes’ flying flying time time to to Washington, Washington, D.C. D.C.
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The The Flight Flight 9393 National National Memorial Memorial includes includes thethe Tower Tower of of Voices, Voices, a 93-foot-tall a 93-foot-tall musical musical instrument instrument that that holds holds 4040 wind wind chimes, chimes, one one to to represent represent each each of of thethe 4040 passengers passengers and and crew crew members members who who perished perished in in thethe crash. crash. The The tower tower is is located located onon anan oval oval concrete concrete plaza plaza that that includes includes two two curved curved concrete concrete benches benches facing facing thethe opening opening of of thethe tower. tower. The The tower tower is is surrounded surrounded byby concentric concentric rings rings of of white white pines pines and and The The efforts efforts of of passengers passengers and and crew crew deciduous deciduous plantings. plantings. AA live live webcam webcam of of thethe onboard onboard Flight Flight 9393 were were nothing nothing short short of of Tower Tower of of Voices Voices can can bebe viewed viewed at at https:// https:// heroic. heroic. Though Though everyone everyone aboard aboard thethe flight flight www.flight93friends.org/plan-your-visit/ www.flight93friends.org/plan-your-visit/ perished perished in in thethe crash, crash, thethe attack attack onon thethe webcams. webcams. U.S. U.S. Capitol Capitol was was thwarted, thwarted, saving saving untold untold Visitors Visitors to to thethe Flight Flight 9393 National National Memorial Memorial number number of of lives. lives. AllAll passengers passengers and and also also can can visit visit thethe Memorial Memorial Plaza. Plaza. The The crew crew onon board board Flight Flight 9393 were were awarded awarded a a Memorial Memorial Plaza Plaza features features thethe Wall Wall of of Congressional Congressional Gold Gold Medal Medal onon September September Names, Names, which which is is made made upup of of 4040 white white 11,11, 2014. 2014. polished polished marble marble stones stones inscribed inscribed with with The The Flight Flight 9393 National National Memorial Memorial is is located located in in Stonycreek Stonycreek Township Township in in Somerset Somerset County, County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, roughly roughly two two miles miles north north of of Shanksville. Shanksville. The The memorial memorial was was opened opened to to family family members members of of thethe victims victims onon September September 10,10, 2015, 2015, and and is is now now open open to to thethe public public seven seven days days a week, a week, 365 365 days days a year a year from from sunrise sunrise to to sunset, sunset, though though visitors visitors are are urged urged to to contact contact thethe Memorial Memorial in in advance advance due due to to potential potential restrictions restrictions or or closures closures related related to to thethe COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic. pandemic.
thethe names names of of thethe passengers passengers and and crew crew who who were were aboard aboard Flight Flight 9393 onon 9/11. 9/11. The The Memorial Memorial Plaza Plaza extends extends one-quarter one-quarter mile mile alongside alongside thethe area area where where Flight Flight 9393 crashed. crashed. Visitors Visitors can can walk walk along along thethe Memorial Memorial Plaza Plaza and and view view thethe impact impact site, site, including including a grove a grove of of eastern eastern hemlock hemlock trees trees that that were were damaged damaged byby thethe crash. crash. AA gap gap in in thethe tree tree line line is is still still visible visible and and serves serves asas a a lasting lasting “scar” “scar” of of thethe crash. crash.
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