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Time
Line of Events
of Sept. 11,
2001
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7:55 a.m.
American
Airlines Flight
11 leaves
Boston
bound for
Los
Angeles
8:00 a.m.
United Airlines
Flight 93
departs
Newark
bound for
San
Francisco
8:10
a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 departs
Washington
bound for
Los
Angeles
8:15 a.m.
United Airlines
Flight 175
departs
Boston
bound for
Los
Angeles
.
8:46 a.m.
American
Airlines Flight
11 strikes the
north tower of
the
World
Trade
Center
8:55 a.m.
According to
wire reports,
President Bush,
who is in
Sarasota
,
Fla.
,
is informed of
the attacks
9:03 a.m.
United Airlines
Flight 175
strikes the
south tower of
the
World
Trade
Center
9:15 a.m.
President Bush
makes statement
condemning
terrorist attack
9:25 a.m.
FAA shuts down
all
New
York City
area airports
9:35 a.m.
All bridges and
tunnels in the
Manhattan
area closed.
9:40
a.m.
FAA halts all flight operations at
U.S.
airports
9:55 a.m.
American
Airlines Flight
77 hits Pentagon
10:05 a.m.
The south tower
of the
World
Trade
Center
collapses
10:05 a.m.
President Bush
leaves
Sarasota
;
White House
evacuated
10:15 a.m.
A portion of the
Pentagon
collapses
10:24 a.m.
The FAA reports
all inbound
transatlantic
aircraft are
being diverted
to Canada
10:25 a.m.
United Airlines
Flight 93
crashed in
Somerset
County
,
80 miles
southeast of
Pittsburgh
10:27 a.m.
The
World
Trade
Center
's
north tower
collapses
10.46
a.m.
U.S.
Secretary of
State Colin
Powell cuts
short his trip
to
Latin America
to return to the
United
States
10:53 a.m.
New
York
's
primary
elections
scheduled for
today are
postponed
10:55 a.m.
Financial
Markets closed
in
New
York
11:02
a.m. New
York Mayor Rudy
W. Giuliani
urges citizens
to stay at home
or work and
orders an.
evacuation of
the area
south of
Canal
Street
11:15 a.m.
U.N.
headquarters in
New
York
is fully
evacuated
12:04 p.m.
Los
Angeles
International
Airport
,
the destination
of three of the
hijacked
American
Airlines
flights, is
evacuated
12:25 p.m.
San
Francisco
International
Airport
is evacuated and
shut down
1:04 p.m.
President Bush
speaks from
Barksdale Air
Force Base in
Louisiana
1:45
p.m.
Pentagon
announces that
warships and
aircraft
carriers will
take up
positions
in the New. York
and Washington
areas
5:20 p.m. The 47-story Building 7 of the
World
Trade
Center
complex
collapses
8:30 p.m.
President Bush addresses nation from White House
Source:
New York Times
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