Timeline of Events
--09.11.01--
(all times in EDT)

0800 AA flight 11 leaves Boston for LAX 0814 UA flight 175 leaves Boston for LAX 0821 AA flight 77 leaves Washington Dulles for LAX 0842 UA flight 93 leaves Newark for SF 0848 first crash @ WTC - North Tower (about the 80th floor) 0906 second crash @ WTC - South Tower (about the 60th floor) 0921 NYC Port Authority closes all bridges into/out of NYC 0943 an airplane crashes near the helipad at Pentagon 0946 FAA grounds flights nationally  1005 south WTC collapses 1010 "E Section" of Pentagon collapses  1010 UA flight 93 crashes in PA 1013 United Nations building evacuated  1024 FAA reports all inbound flights are being diverted to Canada  1029 north WTC collapses 1030 buildings in Washington DC closed  1035 crash in Pennsylvania is reported  1037 fourth explosion at WTC reported  1116 CNN reports Center for Disease Control preparing emergency response teams  1121 American Airlines confirms two of their planes crashed - 156 lost  1130 United Airlines confirms a plane crashed in PA  1159 United Airlines confirms two of their planes crashed - 110 lost 1204 LAX evacuated & shut down  1215 SFO evacuated & shut down  1230 50 flights operating in U.S. airspace, reporting no problems

1304 Bush speaks from Louisiana  1329 state of emergency declared in Washington DC  1340 5 destroyers and 2 aircraft carriers deployed up the east coast from Norfolk, VA USS George Washington and USS John F. Kennedy 1348 Bush leaves Louisiana for undisclosed location 1720 Building #7 at WTC collapses  1755 Detonations in Kabul, Afghanistan ... reports of anti-aircraft fire  1805 CNN reports of missles bombing the airport in Kabul.  1835 CNN reports that bombing in Kabul is on-going civil war battle in Afghanistan  1840 Air Force One lands in Washington DC  1845 reports from inside the Pentagon - it WILL be open 09.12 for business as usual Congress stands behind the President, "This is indeed the most tragic hour in America's history." - Senator John Warner 2030 President Bush makes simple speech, re-itterating that the country will not tolerate terrorism  2100 National Security Meeting at White House 2130 NYC Port Authority says city will be open Wednesday above 14th Street 2200 Bush declares NYC a disaster area. Approves FEMA relief. 2230 2-3 men arrested going towards George Washington Bridge FBI questioning - rumors of explosions in van unfounded  2320 Cell phone calls made from inside the rubble of the WTC A few people reported rescued.