9/11 timeline

By brittany822

  • Times planes took off

    Times planes took off
    7:59 am American Airlines Flight 11 with 92 people aboard, takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport headed to Los Angeles
    8:14 am United Airlines Flight 175 with 65 people aboard, takes off from Boston; it is also headed to Los Angeles.

  • Times the planes crashed

    Times the planes crashed
    8:46 am American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.
    9:03 am United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into floors 75-85 of the WTC’s South Tower, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.

  • Distress calls from planes

    Distress calls from planes
    8:40 am – The Federal Aviation Administration alerts North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) about the suspected hijacking of Flight 11. In response, NEADS scrambles two fighter planes located at Cape Cod’s Otis Air National Guard Base to locate and tail Flight 11.

  • Falling of the south tower

    Falling of the south tower
    9:59 am The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

  • Falling of the north tower

    Falling of the north tower
    10:28 am The World Trade Center’s North Tower collapses, 102 minutes after being hit by Flight 11.

  • President Bush Informed

    President Bush Informed
    8:50 am White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card alerts President George W. Bush that a plane has hit the World Trade Center; the president is visiting an elementary school in Florida at the time.

  • All planes grounded

    All planes grounded
    9:08 am The FAA bans all takeoffs of flights going to New York City or through the airspace around the city.

  • Bull horn speech

    Bull horn speech
    September 14th 2001, George W. Bush grabbed a bullhorn and delivered the bullhorn speech at Ground Zero. Letting them know that America was on a bended knee, in prayer for the people whose lives were lost there, for the workers who work there, and for the families who were in mourn.

  • Bush addresses nation

    Bush addresses nation
    September 20th 2001, George W. Bush addresses the nation in response to the Twin Tower terror.

  • Bush declares war on terror

    Bush declares war on terror
    After the September 11 attacks on the United States. U.S. President George W. Bush first used the term "War on Terror" on 20 September 2001.