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0759	Flight 11	American Airlines flight 11 (Boeing 767 with 24,000 gallons of fuel) takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard for Los Angeles.
0801	Flight 93	United Airlines flight 93 (Boeing 757 with 11,300 gallons of fuel) pushed back from the gate in Newark International Airport with 44 (maybe 45) people aboard bound for San Francisco. They are 1 minute behind schedule but will sit on the ground for 41 minutes before taking off.
0813	Flight 11	Flight 11 gets instructions to turn 20 degrees to the right. Boston Control Center: "AAL11 turn 20 degrees right." Flight 11 responds: "20 right AAL11." [Moments later] Controller: "AAL11 now climb maintain FL350 [35,000 feet]." Controller: "AAL11 climb maintain FL350." Controller: "AAL11 Boston." There is no reply from Flight 11.
0814	Flight 175	United Airlines flight 175 (Boeing 767) takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew aboard for Los Angeles.
0820	Flight 11	Flight 11 stops transmitting IFF beacon signal while over the Hudson River.
0820	Flight 77	American Airlines flight 77 (Boeing 757) departs Washington Dulles Airport near Washington with 64 people aboard for Los Angeles. Other reports put this at 0810 or 0814.
0824	Flight 11	Flight 11 broadcasts "We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move." Apparently, one of the hijackers confused the aircraft's radio with its public-address system. Air traffic control responds "Who's trying to call me?" Then from Flight 11, "Everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet."
0825	Flight 11	Boston Air Traffic Control notifies several air traffic control centers that hijack is in progress.
0827	Flight 11	Flight 11 takes a sudden turn south, veering away from Albany towards New York City.
0827	Flight 11	Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11, calls American Airlines System Operations Control from the seat-back phone. "She said two flight attendants had been stabbed, one was on oxygen," said the the manager on duty. "A passenger had his throat slashed and looked dead and they had gotten into the cockpit." She says the four hijackers had come from first-class seats 2A, 2B, 9A and 9B and confirms that the plane is descending. She says the hijackers had hit people with some sort of spray that made her eyes burn. She was having trouble breathing
0833	Flight 11	Another transmission Flight 11, "Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves."
0837	Flight 175	Flight 175 receives an unusual call asking them to locate Flight 11. The pilot responds, "Affirmative, we have him, uh, he looks, uh, about 20, yeah, about 29, 28,000 [feet]." Controllers tell 175 to make a right turn to avoid Flight 11.
0840	NORAD	Boston air traffic center notifies NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector in Rome, N.Y. that Flight 11 has been hijacked. Other reports say 0838.
0841	Flight 175	Flight 175 enters New York air traffic control and transmits "We heard a suspicious transmission on our departure from B-O-S. "Sounds like someone keyed the mike and said, `Everyone, stay in your seats.'"
0842	Flight 175	Around this time Flight 175 is hijacked. It veers from it's course over New Jersey briefly continuing south.
0842	Flight 93	Flight 93 finally takes off from Newark International Airport for San Francisco after sitting on the group for 41 minutes.
0843	NORAD	FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 175 has been hijacked.
0845	Flight 11	Flight 11 strikes the World Trade Center's north tower at about the 80th floor. Other reports say 0846 or 0848.
0846	NORAD	NORAD orders two F-15 fighters scrambled from Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, 153 miles from New York. Other reports say 0844.
0846	Flight 175	Flight 175 stops transmitting IFF beacon signal.
0847	NORAD	NORAD informed of the plane striking the World Trade Center.
0850	Flight 175	United Systems Operations Control center receives word that a flight attendant from Flight 175 had called and said "Oh my God. The crew has been killed, a flight attendant has been stabbed. We've been hijacked." Then the line went dead.
0850	Flight 175	Flight 175 deviates from its assigned flight path, turning North toward New York City.
0850	WTC	The first New York Fire Department trucks arrive at the World Trade Center and broadcast a "fifth alarm", their highest alarm for a fire.
0852	Military	Two F-15 fighter jets take off from Otis in effort to intercept hijacked planes.
0853	Flight 175	Flight 175 screams South over the Hudson Valley at about 500 miles per hour -- more than double the legal speed.
0856	Flight 77	Flight 77's transponder is shut off which reduces the ground's ability to track the aircraft's position. Air traffic control in Indianapolis calls "American 77, Indy." The controller continues, over and over. "American 77, Indy, radio check. How do you read?"
0900	Flight 93	Around this time, United Airlines systems operations transmits a systemwide message, warning its pilots of a potential "cockpit intrusion". Flight 93, flying over western PA and into northern OH, replies "Confirmed".
0900	Bush	President Bush, scheduled to speak at an elementary school in Florida, is informed that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center.
0900	Flight 175	Last radar reading on Flight 175 is observed at an altitude of 18,000 feet, descending, with a ground speed of 480 knots.
0900	Flight 77	Flight 77 is seen making a 180 turn and heading back to Washington.
0902	Flight 175	Flight 175 strikes the World Trade Center's south tower at about the 60th floor. F-15s from Otis are still 71 miles away and 8 minutes away. Other reports say 0903.
0904	FAA	FAA's Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center stops all departures from airports in New England and eastern New York state. Other reports say that this decision came from managers in New York at 0903.
0905	WTC	The New York Fire Department issues a second "fifth alarm" for the south tower fire.
0907	Bush	President Bush, standing infront of the elementary school children gets whispered into his ear "a second plane has hit the second tower." Bush's face tightens.
0909	Flight 77	American Airlines dispatcher tells the FAA he cannot reach Flight 77 by radio. He seems to suggest that Flight 77 might be the 2nd plane which hit the World Trade Towers, but in fact American 77 was racing back over Pittsburgh, toward Washington.
0910	Flight 93	Around this time, experts believe Flight 93 was hijacked.
0915	American	American Airlines Systems Operations Control center orders a group stop on all of its aircraft, stopping more planes from taking off.
0916	NORAD	FAA informs NORAD that Flight 93 may have been hijacked.
0917	FAA	FAA shuts down all New York City area airports.
0920	United	United Airlines Systems Operations Control center orders a group stop on all of its aircraft, stopping more planes from taking off.
0921	New York	New York City Port Authority orders all bridges and tunnels in the New York City area closed. Other reports say 0917.
0924	NORAD	FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 77 may have been hijacked, 28 minutes after its transponder was turned off. Other reports say 0925.
0924	NORAD	NORAD orders three (maybe two) F-16 fighters scrambled from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
0925	Flight 77	Barbara Olson calls her husband at the Justice Department from Flight 77 to tell him of the hijacking.
0925	People	Peter Alderman had been attending a conference at Windows on the World atop the North Tower. His last communication to his family from his BlackBerry: "We're stuck. The room is filling with smoke. I'm scared."
0926	FAA	FAA orders a national groundstop, halting takeoffs of all civilian aircraft regardless of destination. Other reports say 0925.
0929	Flight 93	Air traffic controllers hear from Flight 93, "Get out of there!", then what sounds like a scuffle. Minutes later, a new voice, this one with a heavy accent: "Ladies and gentlemen, here it's the captain. Please sit down. Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb aboard." They incorrectly think that it is Delta Flight 1989, also a 767 loaded for fuel which took off from Boston heading to LA.
0929	Flight 93	Jeremy Glick, a passenger on Flight 93, calls his wife and describes the hijackers and is informed about the attacks in New York.
0930	Military	Three (maybe two) F-16s take off from Langley. They initially are directed toward New York and accelerate to speads of 600 mph. Then they are vectored toward National Airport in Washington.
0930	Flight 77	Barbara Olson calls her husband from Flight 77 to tell him that the passengers and pilots were held in the back of the plane.
0930	Bush	President Bush makes a brief statement saying that the country has suffered an "apparent terrorist attack" and asks for a moment of silence.
0930	United	United Airlines Systems Operations Control center issues the order to reroute all of its domestic flights to the closest airport.
0933	Flight 77	The same air traffic controller at Dulles who handled the departure of Flight 77, spots an unidentified blip on the radar screen. Controllers call their counterparts at National Airport to report that a "fast moving primary target," meaning an airplane with no transponder, was moving East, headed toward the forbidden airspace over the White House, the Capitol and the Washington Monument.
0933	Flight 77	A Dulles air traffic control supervisor picks up a hot line to tell the Secret Service at the White House. Vice President Dick Cheney is hustled into the underground bunker there.
0935	Flight 93	Flight 93, near Cleveland Ohio, climbs unexpectedly and then makes a 180 turn toward Washington.
0935	Flight 93	Controllers order Delta Flight 1989 to change course to avoid Flight 93 and they comply quickly, indicating that Flight 1989 seems to be fine.
0936	Flight 77	National Airport instructs a military C130 cargo aircraft that had just departed Andrews Air Force base, in Maryland, to intercept and identify Flight 77. The C130 reports it is a B757, moving low and very fast.
0938	Flight 77	Flight 77 is lost from radar screens and crashes into the Pentagon. It was heading for the heart of Washington on autopilot, but as it crossed over the Pentagon at perhaps 7,000 feet, it began a 360 degree turn to the right and down that brought nearly to ground level. The F16s were still 105 miles and 12 minutes away. Other reports have it striking at 0937.
0940	Flight 93	Transponder signal from Flight 93 ceases and radar contact is lost.
0940	WTC	The New York Fire Department issues a third "fifth alarm". More than 50 companies eventually arrive to fight the fires at both towers.
0942	Flight 93	Mark Bingham, a passenger on Flight 93, calls his mother. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham," he said, nervously. "I want to let you know that I love you. I'm calling from the plane. We've been taken over. There are three men that say they have a bomb."
0945	Flight 93	Todd Beamer, a passenger on Flight 93, trying to call his family gets patched through to a telephone operator. He said that the pilot and copilot were injured, 2 hijackers were in the cockpit, 1 was guarding 10 people in 1st class and another was guarding 27 passengers at the rear of the plane. He says that they have voted to storm the hijackers and the supervisor hears before he hangs up "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."
0945	American	American Airlines loses contact with a Boston to Seattle flight and the assumption is immediately made that it too has been hijacked. 10 minutes later communication is restored and it turns out to be a radio glitch.
0948	Washington	The Capitol and west wing of the White House are evacuated. Other reports have this at 0945.
0949	Military	F-16s arrive over Washington, D.C. to perform Combat Air Patrol over city. The fighters broke the sound barrier and traveled supersonic at 720 knots to Washington, making the approximately 130 miles in 14 minutes.
0949	FAA	The FAA halts all flight operations at U.S. airports -- the first time in U.S. history. This requires the over 4000 flights in the air at the time to land as soon as reasonable, no matter what is their destination. Other reports say 0945.
0949	FAA	Pittsburgh International Airport flight tower is evacuated.
0950	WTC	South tower of the World Trade Center collapses. Other reports say 0959.
0955	Bush	President Bush departs Florida on Air Force One and puts the US military worldwide on high alert.
0958	Flight 93	Confrontation with the hijackers and the passengers begins aboard Flight 93. Emergency dispatcher in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on Flight 93. The passenger says: "We are being hijacked!"
1003	Washington	Unconfirmed report of State Department fire in Washington. Later confirmed not true.
1006	Flight 93	Flight 93 crashes into a field near Shanksville, PA, still 100 miles from Washington. It had, experts believe, flipped over on its back and speared into the ground at about 575 mph. NORAD states that the aircraft protecting Washington did not leave position and would have intercepted as it got closer. Other reports say 1003 or 1010.
1008	Washington	Secret Service agents armed with automatic rifles are deployed into and clear Lafayette Park across from the White House.
1010	FAA	FAA orders all planes to land at nearest airports.
1010	Washington	"E Section" of Pentagon collapses.
1010	Washington	FBI headquarters, the State and Justice departments, and the World Bank are evacuated.
1013	New York	The United Nations building evacuates.
1024	FAA	The FAA reports that all inbound transatlantic aircraft flying into the United States are being diverted to Canada. Other reports say 1021.
1029	WTC	North tower of the World Trade Center collapses. Other reports say 1028.
1031	FAA	The FAA allows all military and law enforcement flights to resume.
1045	Washington	All federal office buildings in Washington are evacuated.
1108	FAA	Canada shuts down all airports.
1108	Flight 85	Korean Air Flight 85, a 747 with 215 people aboard traveling from Seoul to Anchorage to refuel and then onto New York, sends a text message to its base including the letters "HJK", a code for hijacked. At some point NORAD scrambles two F-15s to tail the plane.
1204	FAA	Los Angeles International Airport, the destination of Flights 11 and 175, is evacuated.
1214	Washington	Congressional leaders issues a statement pledging full support for President Bush. Senior Congressional leaders in Congress have been flown by helicopter to a secure location outside of Washington.
1215	FAA	San Francisco International Airport, the destination of Flight 93 is evacuated and shut down.
1216	FAA	The FAA command center reports that US airspace has been cleared of all commercial and general aviation aircraft. Only military and lifeguard flights are airborne.
1300	Flight 85	Around this time Flight 85 arrives in Anchorage's airspace and controllers radio coded messages asking the pilots if they are hijacked.
1307	Washington	State of emergency is declared in Washington.
1324	Flight 85	Pilots on Flight 85 mistakenly issued a hijack alert by setting their transponder to 7500, the four-digit universal code for hijacked. Within minutes, Alaska's governor launches an evacuation of large hotels and federal buildings in Anchorage. The U.S. Coast Guard orders tankers loading oil from the Trans Alaska pipeline at nearby Valdez, Alaska out to sea. According to the USA Today, the military tells Anchorage air traffic control that it would shoot the plane down if it does not divert from Anchorage.
1344	Military	The Pentagon says five warships and two aircraft carriers (USS George Washington and USS John F. Kennedy) will leave Norfolk, Virginia to protect the East Coast from further attack and to reduce the number of ships in port.
1348	Bush	President Bush departs from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, the headquarters of the US Strategic Command, which controls the US nuclear arsenal and was built to survive a nuclear attack.
1407	FAA	The FAA announces that all domestic flights have been accounted for.
1430	FAA	The FAA announces that there will be no US commercial air traffic until noon the following day at the earliest.
1454	Flight 85	Flight 85 lands safely in Whitehorse, the capitol of Canada's Yukon Territory after it's approach had set off another wave of evacuations. Only after the co-pilot stepped off the jet at gunpoint and was interrogated did officials confirm that the jet had not been hijacked.
1625	New York	The American and Nasdaq stock exchanges announce they will remain closed Wednesday.
1636	Bush	President Bush departs from Offutt Air Force Base for Washington.
1725	WTC	The 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapses after burning for a number of hours. Other nearby buildings in the area remain ablaze. Other reports say 1720.
1834	Bush	President Bush arrives in Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland with a 3 fighter jet escort.
1854	Bush	President Bush arrives on the South Lawn of the White House.

0935 Flight 93 Controllers order Delta Flight 1989 to change course to avoid Flight 93 and they comply quickly, indicating that Flight 1989 seems to be fine.

My husband] and I and six other fellow [...] employees were on the 8 am flight from Boston to Los Angeles on Tuesday, but we were on the Delta flight [1989], the one out of three 8am flights departing Logan that did not get hijacked. Instead, we were forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland because there were reports that a bomb or hijacking was taking place on our plane. The pilot had radioed that there was suspicious activity in the cabin since one of the passengers was speaking urgently on his cellphone and ignored repeated flight attendant requests to stop using his cell phone while in flight. Also, there was an irregularity in the passenger manifest because there were two people [with the same middle eastern name] who were listed but only one aboard.

After our emergency landing, our plane was directed to go to an isolated area of the airport, and we waited for over two hours in quarantine before FBI agents and bomb sniffing dogs came out to the plane. Just after we landed, the pilot gave us permission to make one very brief telephone call before we were banned from any further telephone use. The sixty or so passengers were thus able to gather some alarming details of the unbelievable fates of the other two LA-bound planes and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, the suicide bombing of the Pentagon as well as reports of other plane crashes in PA and LA (LA proved unfounded) before we were cut off from any further communication. Unfortunately, all this information only added to the alarm and confusion we felt as we waited for over two hours far away from the gates of the airport.

Finally, a caravan of cars bearing FBI and Treasury agents and bomb sniffing dogs approached our airplane. About twenty or so armed FBI agents and police officers boarded the plane and said there were concerns about our flight and that they were taking precautions to rule out any further danger. We finally were allowed off the plane, told to take all of our personal items and leave everything at the edge of the tarmac. While our personal effects were examined we were taken to a secure building at the airport where for three hours we were interrogated at length about any unusual or suspicious activities we observed at Logan that morning or during our flight. We were all alarmed and distraught about the dribs and drabs of information we were slowly getting from our telephone calls (none of us was able to see a TV or listen to a radio) and feeling unbelievably lucky to be alive.

The agents interrogated two of the passengers at length and we later learned that one of them had an expired drivers' license and that the social security number on his license did not match the one he gave. Despite these unusual circumstances, we were all eventually released and went back to the airplane to gather our belongings. We were then escorted out of the airport without going through the main terminal to avoid what the FBI called a "media circus" because the mayor of Cleveland was holding a press conference stating that there was a bomb on our plane and a hijacker in the cabin. Fortunately we were unaware of these goings-on at the time or it would only have increased our alarm. (By the way, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper the next morning confirmed all of this and reported that the mayor retracted his comments later that afternoon.)

Because we were in protective custody or detention at the Cleveland airport for so many hours I was not able to make phone calls to let our children know we were okay, and daughter [...] spent a couple of extremely distraught hours after her school assembly announced the horrific events of the morning. She knew [my husband] and I were on an 8 am flight from Boston to LA and when she learned that the two airplanes that crashed into the two WTC towers were 8am flights from Boston she feared the worst. She called home but there was no one to take the call. She had to wait a couple of agonizing hours before we were finally able to call her school to let her know we were shaken but alive. Fortunately, I was able to reach [my other daughter's] school and they pulled her out of class to reassure her that we were safe before making the announcement of what had happened that day. We were also able to relay information to [our son] that we were safe before he learned what had happened.

At least SIX witnesses, including Susan Mcelwain saw a small military type plane flying around shortly BEFORE UA93 crashed. The FBI denies its existence

The US Government insists the plane exploded on impact yet a one-ton section of the engine was found over a mile away and other light debris was found scattered over eight miles away

Passenger Edward Felt made an emergency call from the plane. He spoke of an explosion and seeing some white smoke. The superviser who took the call has been gagged by the FBI

UA93 was identified as a hijack at 9.16am. At 9.35am three F-16s were ordered to "protect the White House at all costs" when it turned towards the capital. At 10.06am it crashed at Shanksville, less than 10mins flying time from Washington

Sources claim the last thing heard on the cockpit voice recorder is the sound of wind - suggesting the plane had been holed

The FBI insists there was no military plane in the area but at 9.22am a sonic boom - caused by a supersonic jet - was picked up by an earthquake monitor in southern Pennsylvania, 60 miles away from Shanksville.

American Airlines Flight 11 [Boeing 767]	United Airlines Flight 175 [Boeing 767]	American Airlines Flight 77 [Boeing 757]	Flight 93 [Boeing 757-200.]
left Boston's Logan Airport at 7:59 a.m. for Los Angeles crashed: 8:46 a.m.	left Boston's Logan Airport at 7:58 a.m for Los Angeles crashed: 9:03 a.m.	left Dulles Airport 8:10 a.m. for Los Angeles hit the Pentagon: 9:40 a.m.	Left Newark Int. 8:42 a.m. for San Francisco crashed in Pennsylvania: 10:37 a.m.

Time	Approximate Location	Source	Event
9:28	25 miles NE of Youngstown/Ohio	(1)	Screams from Flight X (RHP)
9:31	Youngstown/Ohio	(1)	First hijacker radio message from Flight X (RHP)
9:39	Cleveland/Oberlin	(1)	Last hijacker radio message from Flight X (RHP)
10:10	80 miles NW of Washington	(2)	Flight X (FP) is heading Washington
10:18	50 miles NW of Washington	(2)	Flight X (FP) is intercepted by fighters
10:45	Cleveland Airport	(3)	Flight X is forced to land