Events (47)

• (Shortly After 10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s Boston Center Declares ‘ATC Zero’ 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Air Traffic Control Center Evacuated following Report of Airborne Threat 2001-09-11
• (After 8:14 a.m.-8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 11 Pilot Repeatedly Pushes Talk Back Button 2001-09-11
• (8:14 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Airport Control Tower Contacted about Flight 11 Problems; Employee Concerned about Possibility of Hijacking 2001-09-11
• (8:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Thinks Flight 11 May Be Hijacked? 2001-09-11
• (8:26 a.m.-8:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 11 Turns, Many Watch It on Primary Radar 2001-09-11
• 8:24 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Air Traffic Controllers Hear Flight 11 Hijacker Say, ‘We Have Some Planes,’ but Uncertain of Origin of Transmission 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 8:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Aviation Communications Company Tries Contacting Flight 11, but without Success 2001-09-11
• 8:25 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Starts Notifying Chain of Command 2001-09-11
• 8:25 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Tells Other Centers about Hijack, but Not NORAD 2001-09-11
• 8:28 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Command Center Informed of Flight 11 Hijacking, Establishes Teleconference between Air Traffic Control Centers 2001-09-11
• 8:37 a.m.-8:38 a.m. September 11, 2001: American Airlines Reports that Flight 11 Is a Confirmed Hijacking 2001-09-11
• 8:29 a.m. September 11, 2001: American Airlines Makes First Contact with FAA about Flight 11, Learns Details of Crisis 2001-09-11
• (Between 8:30 a.m. and 8:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Boston Center Supervisor Alerts Otis Air Base Tower to Flight 11, Requests Fighters 2001-09-11
• 8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m. September 11, 2001: Military Liaison Arrives Late at Boston Center, Learns of First Hijacking 2001-09-11
• (8:34 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Calls Atlantic City Military Unit to Request Fighters; Outcome of Call Unclear 2001-09-11
• 8:34 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Air Traffic Control Center Calls FAA Facility at Otis Air Base 2001-09-11
• (8:34 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Hears Hijacker Announcement 2001-09-11
• (8:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Makes His First Call to NEADS, Though 9/11 Commission Does Not Mention It 2001-09-11
• (8:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Notifies NEADS, Against Normal Procedures; Timing Disputed 2001-09-11
• (8:34 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Traffic Controller Takes over Monitoring Flight 11, but Is Unaware It Is Hijacked 2001-09-11
• (8:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: ’Hubbub’ at NEADS Headquarters Thought to Be Result of Exercise Scenario 2001-09-11
• (8:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighter Pilots Unofficially Told to Get Ready to Scramble After Flight 11 2001-09-11
• 8:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns of Threat to Flight 11 Cockpit 2001-09-11
• (8:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Traffic Control Centers Receive False Bomb Threats? 2001-09-11
• (Shortly Before 8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Controller Predicts Flight 11 Will Crash into WTC 2001-09-11
• Soon after 8:46 a.m. September 11, 2001: FBI Arrives at Boston Air Traffic Control Center 2001-09-11
• 8:46 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Notices Flight 11 Disappear from Its Radar Screens, Does Not Realize It Has Crashed 2001-09-11
• (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Informs NORAD that Flight 11 Has Hit WTC 2001-09-11
• (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Seeks Information about Plane that Hit WTC, Military Liaison Wonders if It Was Flight 11 2001-09-11
• 8:54 a.m.-8:55 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA’s Boston Center Redirects Otis Fighters on Instructions from NEADS 2001-09-11
• 8:55 a.m. September 11, 2001: Otis Fighter Pilot Told of First WTC Crash, but Later Denies Learning This 2001-09-11
• (9:00 a.m.-9:24 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighters Take Off from Otis Air Base and Begin Training Mission, Unaware of Hijackings and WTC Crashes 2001-09-11
• 9:01 a.m. September 11, 2001: Otis Fighters Head Away from New York, into Military Training Area over Ocean 2001-09-11
• (9:02 a.m.-9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Calls NEADS about Second Hijacking 2001-09-11
• (9:04 a.m.-9:11 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Traffic Control Managers Ban Aircraft around New York and Washington 2001-09-11
• 9:09 a.m.-9:10 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Controllers Give Cockpit Security Alert to All Their Aircraft 2001-09-11
• 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Command Center Learns of Hijackers’ ‘We Have Some Planes’ Communication 2001-09-11
• 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Tells FAA Regional Office that Hijackers Said ‘We Have Planes’; Office Suggests Notifying Military 2001-09-11
• (9:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Tells Boston Center Flight 175 Is Down, Manager Later Claims 2001-09-11
• 9:06 a.m.-9:07 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA’s Boston Center Informs Otis Fighters of Second Hijacking and Second Crash at WTC 2001-09-11
• 9:07 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Manager Wants Cockpit Security Warnings Sent to Aircraft 2001-09-11
• 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Air Traffic Control Center Mistakenly Tells NEADS Flight 11 Is Still Airborne 2001-09-11
• (9:25 a.m.-9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Air Base Fighters Away on Training Mission Recalled and Return to Base 2001-09-11
• 9:27 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Tells NEADS that Delta 1989 Is Missing 2001-09-11
• 9:35 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center and NEADS Decide to Send Home Fighter Jets on Training 2001-09-11
• 9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Informs NEADS of Possible Hijacking of Delta 1989 2001-09-11