North American Aerospace Defense Command

Events (129)

• 8:43 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Notified that Flight 175 Has Been Hijacked 2001-09-11
• (8:45 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Commander Eberhart Learns of the Hijacking but Isn’t ‘Too Excited’ about It 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: New York Flight Control Notices Problems with Flight 175 2001-09-11
• (Between 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Deputy Mayor Calls Navy; Requests Air Cover Over New York 2001-09-11
• (8.46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center Receives First Notification of Hijacking; Approves Launching of Fighters 2001-09-11
• (8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighters Ordered to Scramble to Flight 11 Nine Minutes after NORAD Notification 2001-09-11
• (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD’s Colorado Operations Center Sees WTC Television Footage 2001-09-11
• (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Informs NORAD that Flight 11 Has Hit WTC 2001-09-11
• (After 8:52 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Scramble Delayed? Witness Casts Doubt on NORAD’s Scramble Time 2001-09-11
• (8:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 77 Transponder Signal Disappears; NORAD Not Informed 2001-09-11
• (After 9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Indianapolis Flight Control Issues Alert to Look for Flight 77; FAA and NORAD Not Notified 2001-09-11
• (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Condoleezza Rice Informs President Bush Flight 11 Has Hit the WTC, but Knows Nothing Else 2001-09-11
• (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Northern Vigilance Operation Canceled; False Blips Purged from Radar Screens 2001-09-11
• (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s New York Center Tells FAA Command Center about Flight 175 Hijack 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Training Exercise Canceled 2001-09-11
• (After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Base Commanders Offer to Help NORAD; Timing of Acceptance Unclear 2001-09-11
• After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center Receives Many False Reports of Hijackings 2001-09-11
• (After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center in ‘Information Void,’ Learning of Crisis from Television 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s New York Center First Informs NEADS that Flight 175 Has Been Hijacked, 9/11 Commission Will Claim 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Phones Start Ringing ‘Like Crazy’ 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:04 a.m. and 9:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Military Cell Activated at FAA Command Center 2001-09-11
• 9:04 a.m. September 11, 2001: Military Raises ‘Infocon’ Threat Level 2001-09-11
• (9:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Richard Clarke Directs Crisis Response through Video Conference with Top Officials 2001-09-11
• (9:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Washington Flight Control Sees Unidentified Plane, Apparently Fails to Notify FAA or NORAD 2001-09-11
• (9:12 a.m.-11:57 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS and NORAD Experiencing Communications Problems 2001-09-11
• 9:15 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Technician Says Exercise Not Yet Canceled 2001-09-11
• 9:16 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Reported Hijacked before Hijacking Supposedly Occurs, According to Some Accounts; One Hijacker May Have Snuck into Cockpit Early 2001-09-11
• (9:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FBI Washington Office Is Warned Flight 77 Has Been Hijacked 2001-09-11
• (9:24 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Continental NORAD Region Headquarters Wants Otis Fighters Details Sent over Chat System 2001-09-11
• (9:24 a.m.) September 11, 2001: By Some Accounts, FAA Notifies NORAD Flight 77 Is Hijacked and Washington-Bound; 9/11 Commission Claims This Never Happens 2001-09-11
• 9:24 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Orders Jets Scrambled from Langley; Conflicting Explanations Later Given for Order 2001-09-11
• 9:25 a.m. September 11, 2001: 9/11 Commission’s Conflicting Account of Clarke-Led Video Conference Begins at This Time 2001-09-11
• 9:28 a.m. September 11, 2001: Myers Updates Clarke Videoconference on Fighter Response 2001-09-11
• 9:28 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Possibly Holding ‘Live-Fly’ Training Exercise 2001-09-11
• (9:29 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Begins High Level Conference Call 2001-09-11
• (9:29 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Struggles to Connect FAA to Conference Calls 2001-09-11
• (9:30 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Langley Fighters Fly East to Ocean Instead of North to Washington; Explanations Differ 2001-09-11
• 9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Mentions in Passing to NORAD that Flight 77 Is Missing 2001-09-11
• Before 9:36 a.m. September 11, 2001: Officials Claim NORAD Is Monitoring Flight 93 2001-09-11
• (9:36 a.m.-10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Military Claims it is Tracking Flight 93 and Ready to Shoot it Down; 9/11 Commission Says Otherwise 2001-09-11
• 9:37 a.m.-9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Begins Air Threat Conference Call 2001-09-11
• After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Air Force Crisis Action Team Responds to Attacks 2001-09-11
• (9:39 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Hijacker Again Warns of Bomb on Board, Flight Controllers Again Overhear; NORAD Still Not Notified 2001-09-11
• (9:39 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Reports that Its Commander Has Not Yet Declared Crisis an Emergency 2001-09-11
• (9:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Hijacking Simulation Scheduled as Part of NORAD Exercise 2001-09-11
• 9:44 a.m. September 11, 2001: NMCC Conference Thinks Flight 1989, Not Flight 93, Is Fourth Hijack 2001-09-11
• 9:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Headquarters Continues to Delay Decision on Contacting NORAD About Flight 93 2001-09-11
• 9:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: Air Sovereignty Fighters Directed to ‘Battle Stations’ Nationwide 2001-09-11
• (9:49 a.m.-10:54 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Does Not Tell the Air Threat Conference Call about Its Combat Air Patrol over Washington 2001-09-11
• Before 9:55 a.m. September 11, 2001: AWACS Plane on Training Mission Instructed to Follow Air Force One 2001-09-11