6:45 am Mohammed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari arrive at Logan International Airport.
7:35 am Atta and Omari board American Airlines Flight 11.
7:59 am American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 81 passengers and 11 crew members takes off for Los Angeles (LAX).
8:14 am Flight 11 disobeys orders from air traffic controllers, indicating that it has been hijacked.
8:14 am United Airlines Flight 175, another Boeing 767 with 56 passengers and 9 crew members, takes off from Logan International Airport in Boston bound for Los Angeles (LAX).
8:19 am Flight attendant Betty Ong makes a frantic call from Flight 11 claiming people have been stabbed and the plane is likely been hijacked. She identifies the seat numbers of the assailants
8:20 am The FAA decides that Flight 11 has likely been hijacked. At about the same time, American Airlines Flight 77 departs from Washington Dulles bound also for Los Angeles with 58 passengers and 6 crew members.
8:24 am A strange broadcast comes from Flight 11 saying: "We have some planes. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. We are returning to the airport." It is believed Atta thought he was communicating with the passengers in coach but keyed the wrong mic by accident.
8:25 am Boston Flight Center notifies other Air Traffic Control centers about Flight 11.
8:34 am NORAD is notified of the hijacking and two F-16s are scrambled for intercept. About this same time another transmission is received from Flight 11 stating: "Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves."
8:41 am Flight 175 reports seeing Flight 11 and hearing a "suspicious transmission", evidence Flight 175 was aware of the hijacking.
8:42 am United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 37 passengers and 7 crew, takes off from Newark International Airport headed for San Fransisco Airport.
8:44 am Flight attendant Amy Sweeney makes a call to American Airlines Flight Services, talking to Michael Woodward. The call is cut off sharply 2 minutes later.
8:46 am Two F-16s are airborne and searching for target which is difficult to find because it has switched its transponder off and is flying below radar coverage at this point.
8:46:30 am Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center between floors 93 and 99 going approximately 466 miles per hour.
The Jules Naudet footage:
Good audio and footage of tower within seconds of first crash:
8:48 am The first live images are broadcast on national television with virtually all major networks tuned in by 8:51.
"As it Happened" The first news bulletins of the attack:
8:51 am A flight controller at the New York Center notices Flight 175 has changed its transponder code.
8:52 am Lee Hanson receives a call from his son Peter on Flight 175 saying he believes it has been hijacked. A flight attendant also calls the United Airlines center telling them of the hijacking and claiming that both pilots and a flight attendant had been killed.
8:54 am Flight 77 deviates from its assigned course over Ohio.
8:55 am President George Bush is informed while in an elementary school classroom of the first plane crash.
9:01 am A manager at the New York air traffic control office calls the ATC command center in Virginia, saying "We have several situations going on here. It's escalating big, big time. We need to get the military involved with us. . . We're, we're involved with something else, we have other aircraft that may have a similar situation going on here."
9:03:02 am Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower between floors 77 and 85 traveling approximately 590 miles per hour
As it Happened footage of Second Impact:
9:04 am FAA in Boston halts all departures within its jurisdiction.
9:08 am FAA bans all takeoffs nationwide
9:23 am Flight 93 receives message to "beware of any cockpit intrusion".
9:28 am Hijackers storm Flight 93's cockpit and hijack the plane. The intrusion is heard by air traffic controllers in Cleveland.
9:37:46 am Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon at 530 miles per hour.
The impact at the Pentagon:
9:43 am The White House and Capitol Building are evacuated.
9:58:59 am The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 56 minutes after being struck by a plane.
A very close up shot of the collapse:
10:28:22 am The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses 102 minutes after being struck by Flight 11.
Video of the collapse of the North Tower from the Hudson River:
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