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7 Timeline of Sept 11 2001 7 Timeline of Sept 11 2001 Timeline of Sept 11 2001 office in the CNN New York bureau that a large for 36 minutes on a course heading due east From Wikipedia is passenger commercial jet was seen to hit the toward Washington, D.C. World Trade Center. Murtagh is the first Continued from Page 6 network employee on the air. The first email 8:58: Flight 175 takes a heading toward New bulletins of breaking news from CNN and York City. 8:46 to 10:28: At least 100 people (some MSNBC report "fire at tower of World Trade accounts say as many as 250), primarily in the Center". Both CNN and MSNBC's websites 9:00 HOURS North Tower, trapped by fire and smoke in the receive such heavy traffic that many servers upper floors, jump to their deaths. One person at collapse. BBC News' website is active and 9:00: Lee Hanson in Miami receives a second street level, firefighter Daniel Suhr, is hit by a shows a picture of the North Tower on fire. call from his son Peter, aboard Flight 175: "It's jumper and dies. No form of airborne Minutes later, email news bulletins revise the getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. evacuation is attempted as smoke is too dense reports of fire to a plane crash. They seem to have knives and Mace. They said for a successful landing on the roof of either they have a bomb. It's getting very bad on the tower, New York City lacks helicopters 8:50: NEADS is notified that a plane has struck plane. Passengers are throwing up and getting equipped for horizontal rescue and the roof the World Trade Center as they continue to sick. The plane is making jerky movements. I tarmac would have been too hot to land a locate the flight on radar. don't think the pilot is flying the plane. I think helicopter. we are going down. I think they intend to go to 8:50 to 8:54 (approx.): Hijacking begins on Chicago or someplace and fly into a building. 8:48:08: The very first television report of an Flight 77. Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it'll be very fast. incident at the World Trade Center is broadcast My God, my God." The call ends abruptly, as locally in New York by WNYW less than two 8:51: A flight controller at the FAA's New York Lee Hanson hears a woman scream. minutes after the plane crash into the North Center notices that Flight 175 had changed its Tower. WNYW breaks into a Paramount transponder code twice four minutes earlier; he 9:01 to 9:02: A manager from the FAA's New Pictures movie trailer for Zoolander with the tries to contact the flight. York Center tells the Air Traffic Control System first live TV pictures of black smoke coming Command Center in Herndon, Virginia, "We from the North Tower, relayed by a WNYW 8:52: A flight attendant aboard Flight 175 calls have several situations going on here. It's cameraman at ground level. One of the station's a United Airlines office in San Francisco, escalating big, big time. We need to get the camera crews already had been out on the street reporting that the flight had been hijacked, both military involved with us. . . We're, we're that morning for New York's mayoral primary pilots had been killed, a flight attendant had involved with something else, we have other election. As WNYW broadcasts the first live been stabbed, and the hijackers were probably aircraft that may have a similar situation going pictures of smoke, the voice of reporter Dick flying the plane. on here." Oliver is heard from the scene: "Jim, just a few moments ago, something believed to be a plane 8:53: The F-15s at Otis Air Force Base are 9:01: FAA's New York Center contacts New crashed into the South Tower of the World airborne. Still lacking an intercept vector to York terminal approach control and asks for Trade Center." WNYW reporting would Flight 11 (and not aware that it has already help in locating Flight 175. eventually correct the location of the first plane crashed), they are sent to military controlled crash from the South Tower to the North Tower. airspace off Long Island and ordered to remain 9:02: Evacuation is ordered by Battalion Chief Oliver was referring to WNYW anchor Jim in a holding pattern until between 9:09 and Joseph Pfeifer (North Tower). An Ryan, who was not seen or heard in the initial 9:13. announcement is made over the PA system to seconds of WNYW's first report of the disaster. evacuate the buildings. Around the same time the first radio report of 8:54: Flight 77 deviates from its assigned the incident is heard on WCBS-AM through course, turning south over Ohio. 9:03: Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph (950 traffic reporter Tom Kaminski, who was flying km/h) into the south face of the South Tower (2 in the station's traffic helicopter and was set to 8:55 (approx.): Announcements are made over WTC) of the World Trade Center, banked deliver his 8:48 traffic report when the incident the building-wide PA system by officials in the between floors 78 and 85.[3] By this time, took place. The report is led into as normal with still-undamaged South Tower of the World several media organizations are covering the anchor Pat Carroll throwing to Kaminski in the Trade Center, reporting that the building is first plane crash—millions see the impact live. chopper for the report, and Kaminski then "secure" and that people should return to their Parts of the plane leave the building from its relaying what he's seeing. offices. Some do not hear it; others ignore it and east and north sides, falling to the ground six evacuate anyway; others congregate in common blocks away. Some mistakenly believe that a 8:49:34: The first network television and radio areas like the 78th floor sky lobby. second explosion has occurred in the North reports of an explosion or incident at the World Tower due to the North Tower's obstruction of Trade Center. CNN breaks into a Ditech 8:55: President George W. Bush is at Emma E. the South Tower from certain camera angles. commercial at 8:49. The CNN screen subtitle Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida They are unaware that a second plane has struck first reads "World Trade Center disaster." Carol as part of a scheduled visit to promote education the South Tower. A massive evacuation begins Lin, the first TV network anchor to break the and the Bush administration education policies in the South Tower below its impact zone. One news of the attacks, says: when presidential advisor Karl Rove, who is of the stairwells in the South Tower remains with Bush, informs him that a small twin-engine unblocked from the top to the bottom of the "Yeah ... This just in. You are looking at plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. tower, but is filled with smoke. This leads many obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That Before entering the classroom, the President people to mistakenly go upwards towards the is the World Trade Center, and we have speaks to National Security Advisor roof for a rooftop rescue that never comes. The unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane Condoleezza Rice, who is at the White House. impact severs communication with several has crashed into one of the towers of the World She first tells him it was a twin-engine television and radio broadcast towers at the Trade Center. CNN Center right now is just aircraft—and then a commercial aircraft—that WTC; local station WPIX's feed freezes on an beginning to work on this story, obviously had struck the World Trade Center, adding image of the second impact which is all the calling our sources and trying to figure out “that’s all we know right now, Mr. President.” station broadcasts until alternate transmitters exactly what happened, but clearly something are set up hours later. CNN's headline now reads relatively devastating happening this morning 8:56: The transponder on Flight 77 is turned off "Second plane crashes into World Trade there on the south end of the island of and even primary radar contact with the aircraft Center." The three major broadcast networks Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one is lost. During radar blackout Flight 77 turns have interrupted their morning shows and are of the towers of the World Trade Center." east, unnoticed by flight controllers. When speculating on whether they are witnessing a primary radar information is restored at 9:05, terrorist attack or some sort of very rare Later, Sean Murtagh, CNN vice-president of controllers look futilely for Flight 77 west of its accident. finance, in an on-air phone call, says from his previous position. Flight 77 travels undetected (Continued on Page 9)