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| September 11, 2001 |
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 Airforce 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.
8:30 p.m. President Bush addresses nation from White House
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