Page 1 Interactive timeline - September 9/11 Welcome to the Interactive timeline. Take a look at over the single day events that shaped the day of 11 September. This timeline looks at the key times which unfolded from 6am to midnight. There is another timeline on the website, which looks at the events before and after the day of 11 September. 06.00 - Portland airport Hijacker pilot Mohamed Atta and another hijacker checked in at Portland airport. Atta was taken for extra security screening but passed through to board the short flight to Boston. 07.15 - Flight 77 - Washington to LA Hijacker Hani Hanjour and four others checked in to American Airlines Flight 77 from Washington to Los Angeles. All were allowed to board, despite triggering security alerts, e.g. over photo ID and metal detectors.
Page 2 07.30 - Flight 93 - Newark to San Francisco Hijacker Ziad Jarrah and three others checked in for United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco. 07.45 - Flight 11 - Boston to LA Mohamed Atta and four other hijackers boarded American Airways Flight 11 to Los Angeles. 07.59 - Flight 11 - Boston to LA Flight 11 took off. 08.00 - Flight 175 - Boston to LA Hijacker pilot Marwan al Shehhi and four other hijackers boarded United States Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles. Three of them had their baggage searched, but all were still allowed to board.
Page 3 08.14 - Mid-air Flight 11 was hijacked. 08.14 - Boston airport Flight 175 took off. 08.20 - Washington, Dulles airport Flight 77 took off. 08.25 - Mid-air Flight control overheard hijacker Mohamed Atta using the cockpit radio to tell passengers to stay calm. He used the phrase We have some planes. 08.37 - Boston Flight control at Boston informed Air Defense about the hijackings - but no one suspected the planes would be used for suicide attacks. 08.42 - Newark airport, New Jersey Flight 93 took off.
Page 4 08.44 - Mid-air Flight 175 was hijacked. 08.46 - New York City Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center between the 93rd and 99th floor. All 92 on board and hundreds on those floors died instantly. Hundreds more were trapped and jet fuel burst through the elevator shafts, causing explosions on other floors. 08.47 - New York City Police (NYPD) and fire (NYFD) services raced to the World Trade Center. 08.49 - New York City Fire officers in the World Trade Center South Tower told people not to evacuate that tower, as the problem was only in the North Tower. Some ignored this and left the South Tower. 08.51 - Mid-air Flight 77 was hijacked. 08.52 - Mid-air A flight attendant informed United Airlines that Flight 175 had been hijacked. 08.53 - Mid-air Fighter jets were sent by US air defense to search for Flight 11.
Page 5 08.56 - New York City A full evacuation of the North Tower of the World Trade Center was ordered, but many routes were blocked by damaged doors, etc. 09.03 - New York City Flight 175 crashed into floors 77 to 85 of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, filmed by news cameras. Hundreds - including all 65 on board the plane - died instantly. Amazingly, one person escaped from an office that was struck directly by a wing of the plane. 09.03 - White House, Washington Vice President Cheney watched Flight 175 hit the World Trade Center and immediately knew that the USA was under attack. The Government defence and security systems went into action. 09.05 - Florida President Bush was informed of the attacks on the World Trade Center as he read to children in a Florida primary school. He stayed with the children for a few minutes before going to another room to talk to advisers. 09.10 - New York City People trapped by fire, heat and smoke began to jump from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. New Yorkers and television viewers watched them fall.
Page 6 09.28 - Mid-air Flight 93 was hijacked. 09.30 - Florida President Bush made a statement to the press and television: It is an apparent terrorist attack on our country. 09.37 - Pentagon, Washington Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon building, Washington - the headquarters of the US defence forces. All 64 people on the plane and 125 people in the Pentagon died in this attack. 09.44 - Washington The White House and the Capitol building (like Britain s Houses of Parliament) were evacuated. 09.45 - Mid-air President Bush told Vice President Cheney that We re at war... someone s going to pay. 09.50 - USA All US airports were shut down.
Page 7 09.55 - Florida President Bush s plane took off from Florida and flew to Barksdale airbase in Louisiana, as this was believed to be safer than returning to Washington. 09.57 - Mid-air Passengers on Flight 93 attacked the hijackers as they had learnt from mobile phone calls to relatives that other flights had been flown into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. 09.59 - New York City The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed to the ground, just as people from the top floors began to leave the building at ground level. New Yorkers watched from the streets and from other buildings. Other people all over the world watched on television as a thick cloud of dust and rubble spread across Manhattan. 10.02 - Shanksville, Pennsylvania Flight 93 crashed to the ground. 10.03 - White House, Washington Security forces learnt that there were other flights taken by hijackers. 10.15 - Pentagon, Washington A full evacuation of the Pentagon was ordered as news arrived that another plane might be about to attack.
Page 8 10.20 - Mid-air President Bush gave authority for the US airforce to shoot down any planes that did not respond to flight control orders. 10.28 - New York City The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. 11.45 - Louisiana President Bush s plane landed at Barksdale. He recorded a brief statement vowing to hunt down those responsible for the attacks. His plane soon took off again for a bigger airbase at Offut in Nebraska. 13.44 - Pentagon, Washington US Defense chiefs ordered battleships and aircraft carriers to patrol the east coast of the USA, to intercept any other possible attacks.
Page 9 14.50 - Nebraska President Bush s plane landed at Offut airbase. He held a video conference with his advisers and decided to return to the White House. 17.20 - New York City Another World Trade Center building called Number 7 crashed to the ground, after being damaged by the collapse of the two towers.
Page 10 20.00 - White House, Washington The US Government received messages of sympathy from leaders all over the world, but news reports from the Middle East showed videos of Palestinians in refugee camps cheering and dancing when they learnt about the attack. Palestinian leaders joined many more Muslim leaders in condemning the terrorism. One Muslim leader said differently: Saddam Hussein of Iraq says that the attacks are the fruits of America s crimes against humanity. 20.30 - White House, Washington President Bush addressed the nation on television. He said We make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbour them. After the broadcast, he met his advisers to review the day. They already had evidence that the attacks were organised by Osama bin Laden - the leader of the extreme terrorist group Al-Qaeda based in Afghanistan. 23.00 00.00 am 23.59 - New York City The search for survivors continued throughout the night at the site of the two towers, but with little chance of success.