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Highjackers board plane 1
Mohammed Atta gets on palne with Abdulaziz al-Omari from portland to boston -
Highjackers take control
Waleed and Wail al-Shehri rise from seats 2A and 2B and stab two female flight attendants. Atta rises from seat 8D and approaches the cockpit. Within minutes, he is at the controls. -
flight attendent calls for help
Flight attendant Amy Sweeney, aboard Flight 11, calls Michael Woodward at the American Airlines Flight Services Office in Dallas, "Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent... we are all over the place." A minute later, Woodward asks her to "describe what she sees out the window". She responds, "I see the water. I see the buildings. I see buildings..." After a short pause, she reports, "We are flying low. We are flying very, very low. We are flying way too low." Seconds lat -
people begin to evacuate
at least 100 people jumped to their deaths off the building, once the plane hit -
the world finds out
news reporters and camera crews are all over the scene moments after the crash -
The president alerted
Air Force One, carrying the president, turns for Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana -
osama is guilty
osama bin ladin becomes the number one suspect -
President Bush has had enough
President Bush meets his full National Security Council, followed roughly half an hour later by a meeting with a smaller group of key advisers. Bush and his advisers have evidence that Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks. CIA Director Tenet says that al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan are essentially one and the same. Bush says, "Tell the Taliban we're finished with them." -
second plane gets taken over
Lee Hanson receives a phone call from his son Peter, a passenger on United 175, who says "I think they've taken over the cockpit-An attendant has been stabbed- and someone else up front may have been killed. The plane is making strange moves. Call United Airlines-Tell them it's Flight 175, Boston to LA." Also on Flight 175 a flight attendant aboard calls a United Airlines office in Chicago, reporting that the flight had been hijacked, both pilots had been killed, a flight attendant had been stab