A 9/11 timeline

8:45 a.m.
• American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. It had departed from Boston en route to LA with 92 people on board.

9:03 a.m.
• United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the Trade Center, causing a devastating explosion. It had left Boston for LA carrying 65 people.

9:10 a.m.
• President Bush is informed of the attacks by his chief of staff while reading to children in a classroom.

9:29 a.m.

•  First reports of casualties start to pour in. More than 50,000 workers are based at the Trade Center.

9:30 a.m.
• US President George Bush declares: “We have had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.”

9:40 a.m.
• American Airlines Flight 77, carrying 64 people from Washington to Los Angeles, crashes into the Pentagon. The military bee hive bursts into flames and a portion of one side of the building collapses.

9:43 a.m.
• Abu Dhabi television reports it received a call from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claiming responsibility for crashing two planes into the WTC. Leading officials later deny the claim.

9:45 a.m.
• The White House and The Capitol are evacuated amid further threats.

9:50 a.m.

• The south tower of the World Trade Center tower collapses. All airports across the US shut down.

9:58 a.m.
• Emergency dispatcher in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on United Flight 93 who says “We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!”

10:00 a.m.
• United Airlines Flight 93 crashes 130 kilometres southeast of Pittsburgh. It had been bound for San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey.

10:29 a.m.
• The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

1:44 p.m.

• The Pentagon says five battleships and two aircraft carriers will be deployed along the east coast to provide upgraded air defence for the New York and Washington areas.

2:00 p.m.

• All US stock markets are closed for the afternoon. The American Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange remain closed the next day.

2:48 p.m.
• New York’s mayor Rudy Giuliani says the eventual death toll from Tuesday’s attack may be “more than any of us can bear.”

5:20 p.m.
• Forty-seven storey Building Seven, adjacent to the ruins of the World Trade Center, collapses.

8:30 p.m.
• President Bush addresses the nation on TV and hints that at a strong US response against the “terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.”

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