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6 Timeline of Sept 11 2001 6 Timeline of Sept 11 2001 Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks From Wikipedia 6:00 Hours 6:02: Mohamed Atta flies Colgan Air from Portland International Jetport, Portland, Maine to Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, along with Abdulaziz al-Omari. 6:45: Atta and al-Omari arrive at Boston's Logan Airport. 6:52: Marwan al-Shehhi, the hijacker of United thereafter.) 8:42 to 8:46 (approx.): Flight 175 is hijacked. Airlines Flight 175, calls Atta from another terminal at Logan to confirm that the plans for 8:24 Flight 11 makes a 100-degree turn to the 8:44: Flight attendant Amy Sweeney, aboard the attack are intact. south heading toward New York City. A radio Flight 11, reports by telephone to Michael transmission comes from Flight 11: "We have Woodward at the American Airlines Flight 7:00 Hours some planes. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. Services Office in Boston, "Something is We are returning to the airport." It is believed wrong. We are in a rapid descent... we are all 7:35: Atta and al-Omari board American Atta mistakenly held a button directing his over the place." A minute later, Woodward asks Airlines Flight 11. voice to radio rather than to the plane's cabin as her to describe what she sees out the window. he intended. A few seconds later, Atta's voice She responds, "I see the water. I see the 7:40: The rest of the American Airlines Flight says, "nobody move. Everything will be OK. If buildings. I see buildings..." After a short pause, 11 hijackers board the plane. you try to make any moves, you'll endanger she reports, "We are flying low. We are flying yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet." Air very, very low. We are flying way too low." 7:59: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing traffic controllers hear the transmission. Seconds later she says, "Oh my God, we are 767, departs 14 minutes late from Logan way too low.” The call ends with a burst of very International Airport, bound for Los Angeles, 8:25: Boston Center flight controllers alert other loud, sustained static. California. Five hijackers are aboard flight control centers regarding Flight 11. However, NORAD is not yet alerted. 8:46: Two F-15 fighter jets are scrambled from 8:00 Hours Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, intended 8:34: A third transmission from Flight 11: to intercept Flight 11. Because Flight 11's 8:13: Flight 11 has its last routine "nobody move please. We are going back to the transponder is off, United States Air Force communication with the FAA's air traffic airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves." pilots do not know the direction they should fly control center in Boston. Boston Center contacts Otis Air National Guard to meet the jetliner. NEADS spends the next Base at Cape Cod through the FAA's Cape Cod several minutes watching their radar screens in 8:14: Flight 11 fails to heed air traffic facility, on the hijacking of Flight 11. anticipation of Flight 11 returning a radar controller's instruction to climb to 35,000 feet. contact. 8:37: Flight 175 confirms sighting of hijacked 8:14: United Airlines Flight 175, another fully- Flight 11 to flight controllers, 10 miles (16 km) 8:46:40: Flight 11 crashes at roughly 490 mph fueled Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and to its south. (790km/h or 219m/s or 425 knots) into the nine crew members, departs from Boston Logan north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the airport, also bound for Los Angeles. Five 8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. hijackers are aboard. NEADS (Northeast Air Defense Sector), the (Many early accounts gave times between 8:45 northeast sector of NORAD, of the hijacking of and 8:50). The aircraft enters the tower mostly 8:19: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11 Flight 11, the first notification received by the intact. It plows to the building core, severing all [1] alerts American Airlines via an airphone, military at any level that American 11 had been three gypsum-encased stairwells, dragging “The cockpit is not answering, somebody’s hijacked. The controller requests military help combustibles with it. A massive shock wave stabbed in business class—and I think there’s to intercept the jetliner. travels down to the ground and up again. The Mace—that we can’t breathe—I don’t know, I combustibles and the remnants of the aircraft think we’re getting hijacked.” She then tells of 8:41: The FAA's New York Center requests are ignited by the burning fuel. As the building the stabbings of two flight attendants. information about Flight 11 over the radio. lacks a traditional full cage frame and depends Flight 175 responds: "[...]ah we heard a almost entirely on the strength of a narrow 8:20: The Federal Aviation Administration's suspicious transmission on our departure out of structural core running up the center, fire at the Boston Center flight controllers decide that Boston ah with someone ah, ah sound like center of the impact zone is in a position to Flight 11 has probably been hijacked. someone sound like someone keyed the mike compromise the integrity of all internal and said ah 'everyone ah stay in your seats'"[2] columns. People below the severed stairwells 8:20: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 New York Center acknowledges and says it will start to evacuate—no one above the impact with 58 passengers and six crew members, pass the information on. zone is able to do so. departs from Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, 8:42: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, French filmmaker Jules Naudet and Czech Virginia, for Los Angeles. Five hijackers are takes off with 37 passengers and seven crew immigrant Pavel Hlava videotape the crash of aboard. members from Newark International Airport Flight 11 with their video cameras from (now Newark Liberty International Airport), different locations. A WNYW TV camera 8:21 Flight 11's transponder signal is turned off, bound for San Francisco International Airport, records the sound, but not the image, of the but the plane remains on radar screens as a blip following a 40-minute delay due to congested crash. without additional information. (Prior to the runways. Four hijackers are aboard. Its flight 9/11 Commission's report, news organizations path initially takes it close to the World Trade Timeline of Sept 11 2001 From Wikipedia is reported this time as 8:13 or immediately Center before moving away westwards. Continued on Page 7