Tuesday, 9/11/2001
* 5:33-5:40 am - Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari drive their rented 2001 Nissan Altima to the nearby Portland, Maine International Jetport Airport, entering its parking lot at 5:40 a.m. The FBI will later seize their car there.
* 5:45 am - Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari pass through airport security in Portland, ME (Portland International Airport). These hijackers flew from Portland, ME to Boston, MA on Colgan Air Flight 5930, and then boarded American Airlines Flight 11.
* 6:18 am – President George W. Bush goes for a four-mile morning jog in Sarasota, FL.
* 7:49 am - American Airlines Flight 11 departs Boston Logan Int'l Airport.
* 8:14 am - United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston Logan Int'l Airport.
* 8:20 am - American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington Dulles Int'l Airport.
* 8:42 am - United Airlines Flight 93 departs Newark Int'l Airport.
* 8:46:30 am – American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767) (76 passengers, 11 crew, 5 hijackers) out of Boston (Logan) headed to LAX, crashes into the northern side of WTC North Tower 1 (with antenna) at about 466 mph, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire. Hijacker Mohammed Atta flew AA Flight 11.
* 8:55 am – White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card, informs President Bush of WTC crash.
* 9:03:02 am – United Airlines Flight 175 (Boeing 767) (51 passengers, 9 crew, 5 hijackers) from Boston (Logan) headed to LAX, crashes into the WTC South Tower 2 at about 590 mph and explodes. Both WTC buildings are burning. Hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi flew UA Flight 175. Three children died on UA 175 (ages 2, 3, and 4).
* 9:30 am - President Bush addresses the nation from Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, FL.
* 9:37:46 am – American Airlines Flight 77 (53 passengers, 6 crew, 5 hijackers) out ofWashington, DC (Dulles) headed to LAX crashes into The Pentagon in WDC. Hijacker Hani Hanjour flew AA Flight 77. Five children died on AA 77.
* 9:43 am – The White House and The Capitol are evacuated and closed.
* 9:45 am - U.S. airspace is shut down by the FAA. The groundings of all civilian aircraft will last until September 14.
* 9:57 am – President Bush departs from Florida aboard *Air Force One*.
* 9:57 am - Onboard United Airlines Flight 93, passengers Jeremy Glick, Tom Burnett, Todd Beamer, and Mark Bingham revolt, charge the hijackers, break into the cockpit, and disrupt the hijacking. "Are you ready, OK, let's roll!"
* 09:59:04 am – WTC South Tower 2 collapses 56 minutes after being struck, plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and debris forms and slowly drifts away from the building.
* 10:03:11 am – United Airlines Flight 93 (33 passengers, 7 crew, 4 hijackers) out of Newark, NJ headed to San Francisco crashes into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania (near Shanksville), 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Hijacker Ziad Samir Jarrah flew UA Flight 93.
UA Flight 93's target was the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
* 10:10 am – The Pentagon (west side) collapses.
* 10:28:25 am - WTC North Tower 1 collapses after 1 hour and 42 minutes from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing another tremendous cloud of debris and smoke.
* 11:45 am - President Bush arrives at Barksdale AFB, LA aboard *Air Force One* and addresses the nation.
* 1:44 pm – The Pentagon sends two US Navy aircraft carriers, USS George Washington (CVN-73) and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-64), to protect the New York coast.
* 2:50 pm - President Bush arrives at Offutt AFB, Nebraska aboard *Air Force One*.
* 5:20 pm – WTC Building 7 (47 stories) collapses.
* 6:35 pm - President Bush arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, MD aboard *Air Force One*.
* 6:54 pm – President Bush arrives at the White House aboard *Marine One*.
* 8:30 pm – President Bush addresses the nation from The Oval Office, saying, "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil", and asks for prayers for the families and friends of victims."These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve," he says. The President says, “The U.S. government will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts, and those who harbor them.”
* 2,977 killed (including 19 suicide hijackers)
- New York City: 2,349 civilians, 343 FDNY Firefighters, 23 NYPD Police Officers, 37 Port Authority Officers.
- The Pentagon: 125 Civilians and Military Personnel
- Shanksville, PA: 44 Crew and Passengers
- 4 Airliners: 253 Crew and Passengers
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* May 2, 2011 - Usama Bin Laden killed by SEAL Team Six in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
* Sep 10, 2011 - UA Flight 93 Memorial Ceremony
President George W. Bush Speech:
Remain Vigilant America!
Don't take Radical Islamic Terrorists lightly; they still want to destroy you and our Free country.
