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Tuesday
11th September
07.58 a.m.
(12.58 p.m. Irish time) - Boston: United Airlines
flight UA 175 leaves Logan airport for Los Angeles:
56 passengers, 9 crew.
07.59 a.m.
- Boston: American Airlines flight AA 11 leaves
for Los Angeles: 81 passengers, 11 crew.
08.01 a.m.
- Newark, NJ: United flight UA 93 leaves for San
Francisco: 38 passengers, 7 crew.
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| World
Trade Centre hit |
0 8.10
a.m. - Washington: American flight
AA 77 leaves Dulles airport for Los Angeles: 58
passengers, 6 crew.
08.45 a.m.
- New York: First aircraft crashes into the World
Trade Centre North tower; this is AA11.
09.03 a.m.
- New York: Second aircraft flies into the South
tower, on live television; this is UA175.
09.18 a.m.
- New York: FAA closes all New York airports.
09.21 a.m.
- New York: All city bridges and tunnels closed.
09.27 a.m.
- Sarasota, Fla: President George W. Bush makes
first statement on 'apparent' terrorist attack.
09.40 a.m.
- Abu Dhabi: Report that the Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Palestine carried out the
attack; later denied.
09.40 a.m.
- New York: FAA grounds all US domestic flights.
09.45 a.m.
- Washington: Reports of two explosions in the
Pentagon - actually AA77, a B757, crashing into
it.
09.57 a.m.
- Sarasota, Fla.: President Bush departs .
10.00 a.m.
- New York: The WTC South tower collapses.
10.05 a.m.
- Washington: White House evacuated.
10.10 a.m.
- Washington: Part of the Pentagon collapses.
10.10 a.m.
- Pennsylvania: UA93, a B767, crashes not far
from Pittsburgh.
10.15 a.m.
- Washington: Reports of an explosion on Capitol
Hill.
10.22 a.m.
- Washington: Report of a car- bomb at the State
Department.
10.29 a.m.
- New York: The WTC North tower collapses.
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| Tower
collapses |
10.35 a.m.
- New York: Stock Exchange announces it will not
open today.
10.41 a.m.
- Toronto: Stock Exchange is closed.
10.45 a.m.
- Gaza City: Yasser Arafat condemns the attacks.
10.55 a.m.
- Washington: An unidentified aircraft is reported
approaching the Pentagon.
11.00 a.m.
- Buenos Aires: US Embassy is evacuated.
11.00 a.m.
- London: Stock Exchange is evacuated.
11.00 a.m.
- New York: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani advises New
Yorkers to evacuate Manhattan.
11.04 a.m.
- New York: UN headquarters is evacuated.
11.18 a.m.
- Fort Worth: American Airlines confirms that
it has lost two aircraft, with a total of 156
people on board.
11.20 a.m.
- Brussels: NATO Secretary- General George Robertson
advises staff to evacuate the Organisation's HQ.
11.20 a.m.
- Lima: Secretary of State Colin Powell cuts short
visit to return to the US.
11.25 a.m.
- Chicago: United Airlines confirms one aircraft
is lost, with an unknown number of people on board,
and another out of contact.
11.40 a.m.
- New York: All major league baseball games for
the day are cancelled.
11.45 a.m.
- Mexico City: Mexican/American border is closed
for a short time.
11.50 a.m.
- Islamabad: Taliban Ambassador says Osama Bin
Laden cannot be held responsible.
11.55 a.m.
- Paris: A general security alert is issued.
11.59 a.m.
- Chicago: United Airlines confirms two aircraft
are lost.
12.00 noon
- Train travel between Washington and Boston is
suspended.
12.00 noon
- Caracas: Oil prices rise by $3 a barrel.
12.00 noon
- Ottawa: All air flights are suspended.
12.00 noon
- Cape Canaveral (Fla): Kennedy Space Centre closed.
12.15 p.m.
- Ottawa: U.S./Canadian border is closed for a
short time.
12.20 p.m.
- Brussels: Eurocontrol suspends all flights between
USA and Europe.
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| Smoke
and dust after collapse |
12.25 p.m.
- Los Angeles: International Airport evacuated.
12.30 p.m.
- Athens: Saudi Airllines flight from Rome to
Jeddah lands following a bomb alert.
12.35 p.m.
- Columbus (Ohio): All U.S. major league soccer
matches called off.
12.40 p.m.
- Porto (Portugal): US commercial delegation evacuated
after bomb warning. 12.40 p.m. - New York: City
primary election is called off.
12.45 p.m.
- Chicago: United Airlines confirms two aircraft
lost, with a total of 110 people on board.
12.46 p.m.
- Amman: King Abdullah cancels visit to U.S.A.
12.47 p.m.
- New York: National Guard called in to assist
NYPD.
12.50 p.m.
- Panama City: State of alert ordered for Panama
Canal.
13.00 p.m.
- Jerusalem: Israeli airspace closed to incoming
traffic.
13.04 p.m.
- Shreveport (Louisiana): President Bush makes
2nd statement about 'cowardly attacks'; leaves
for Omaha, Nebraska.
13.20 p.m.
- Washington: US officials link Osama bin Laden
associates with attacks.
13.25
p.m. - Frankfurt: Stock Exchange
evacuated after bomb threat.
13.27
p.m. - Washington: A State of
Emergency is declared for the city.
13.44
p.m. - Washington: Naval vessels
are ordered to sea, to assist off New York and
Washington.
16.25
p.m. - New York: A third building
in the WTC complex, 'World Trade Center 7' on
fire.
16.33
p.m. - Nebraska: Air Force One
leaves SAC/NORAD HQ for Washington.
17.21
p.m. - New York: World Trade
Center 7 collapses.
17.55
p.m. - Kabul: Explosions are
heard, later acknowledged by Northern Alliance.
18.56
p.m. - Washington: President
George W. Bush arrives back at the White House.
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