9/11 moment by moment
On September 11, 2001,terrorists crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours. As the world marks the seventh anniversary of the attack on the twin towers we look back at the key moments of that day .
- 7:59 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 a Boeing 767-223ER with a maximum capacity of 181 passengers and 23,980 gallons of fuel, lifts off from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
- 8:01 a.m: United Airlines Flight 93 a Boeing 757-222 with a maximum capacity of 200 passengers and 11,489 gallons of fuel, rolls from the gate in Newark International Airport, Newark, New Jersey with 44 people aboard bound for San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California.
- 8:13:31 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 last transmission from Boston Air Traffic Control.
- 8:14 to 8:20 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 goes off course and is hijacked.
- 8:20 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 transponder signal stops transmitting Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) beacon signal.
- 8:21 a.m: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls Vanessa Minter at American Airlines reservations from the seatback phone.
- 8:22 a.m: Amy Sweeney another flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls American Airlines ground manager Michael Woodward and speaks calmly to him until the plane crashes.
- 8:26 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 is heading westnorthwest, its location is between Albany and Lake George, New York, when it suddenly makes a 100 degree turn to the south and starts heading directly toward New York City.
- 8:32 a.m: Bush�s motorcade leaves The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key, Florida for Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota.
- 8:40 a.m: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) notifies NORAD that American Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked.
- 8:41:32 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 last communication with the New York air traffic control.
- 8:46:26 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the north side of the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) of the WTC between the 94th and 98th floors.
- 8:49 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 now deviates from its assigned flight path.
- 8:51 a.m: Bush arrives at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida for a photo op with 16 second graders.
- 9:02:54 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the south side of the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors at a speed of over 500 MPH. Parts of the plane including an engine leave the building from its north side, to be found on the ground up to six blocks away.
- 9:08 a.m: FAA orders all aircraft to leave New York area airspace and orders all New York-bound planes nationwide to stay on the ground.
- 9:15 a.m: American Airlines orders no new takeoffs in the United States.
- 9:32 a.m: The New York Stock Exchange closed.
- 9:37 a.m: American Airlines Flight 77 is lost from radar screens and impacts the western side of the Pentagon.
- 10.05: The south tower collapses, 62 minutes after being hit.
- 10.29: The north tower collapses. The death toll was feared to be as high as 20,000 but gradually dropped to about 2,800.
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