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Complete 911 Timeline

7279 events in this timeline

Open-Content investigative project managed by matt, Paul, KJF, blackmax

This is the home page for the Complete 911 Timeline investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users of this website.

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  1. 2001-09-11 8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001: Office of Emergency Management Preparing for Bioterrorism Exercise; Opens Its Command Center
  2. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Special NSA Warning Center First Learns from Television that US Is under Attack
  3. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President’s Wife Lynne Cheney Learns of Crashes at the WTC While at Hair Salon, but Is Not Evacuated
  4. 2001-09-11 8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001: New York Flight Control Center Manager Aware of Ong Phone Call, Unaware Flight 11 Has Crashed
  5. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:05 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Transportation Secretary Mineta and FAA Administrator Garvey in Meeting Together; Notified of First WTC Crash
  6. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001: FBI Director Mueller Learns about the Crash at the WTC but Doesn’t Realize It Is Terrorism
  7. 2001-09-11 Shortly Before 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Acting Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Learns of First Crash from Television
  8. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Navy Command Center Personnel Think WTC Crash Is an Accident
  9. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: National Communications System Coordinating Center Activated in Response to Attacks
  10. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Intelligence Officer Calls FBI Operations Center, but It Has No Information on Flight 11 Hijacking
  11. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Officer Calls Pentagon Intelligence Center, but It Has No Information on Flight 11 Hijacking
  12. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Intelligence Officer Checks Military Internet System, but It Has No Information on Flight 11 Hijacking
  13. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Workers Apparently Learn of WTC Attack from TV, Think It Is an Accident
  14. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD’s Colorado Operations Center Sees WTC Television Footage
  15. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NSA Director Only Learns US Is Under Attack from TV Reports
  16. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Navy Officers at Pentagon Immediately Realize First Crash Is Terrorism, Suspect Pentagon Could Be Attacked
  17. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:48 a.m. and 9:09 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Langley Air Force Base Pilots Learn of WTC Crash
  18. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force Secretary Roche Learns of Attacks during Meeting with Congressmen to Discuss Islamic Fundamentalism
  19. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Sheriffs with President Bush’s Secret Service Detail Unaware of Crash at the WTC
  20. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Manager Ben Sliney Learns of First WTC Crash, Doesn’t Realize It Is Flight 11
  21. 2001-09-11 (After 8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Agent Responsible for President’s Security Sees TV Coverage of Crash at the WTC and Calls Colleagues to Office for Meeting
  22. 2001-09-11 8:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: Deputy Fire Safety Director Says He Will Wait for Orders before Evacuating the South Tower
  23. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:49 a.m. and 9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Army Vice Chief of Staff Keane Orders that His Operations Center Be Fully Manned
  24. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:49 a.m. and 9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NMCC Responds to First Crash at WTC, Notifies Senior Pentagon Officials
  25. 2001-09-11 8:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: Port Authority Police Officer Calls for Evacuation of Top Floors of WTC’s North Tower
  26. 2001-09-11 8:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: Message about Hijacking of Flight 11 Sent to Key American Airlines Officials
  27. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Learns Crashed Plane Belonged to American Airlines, but Director Unable to Contact Corporate Officials about This
  28. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: American Airlines Learns of Plane Hitting WTC
  29. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Agent Outside Cheney’s Office Learns Plane that Hit WTC Is Passenger Jet
  30. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Informs NORAD that Flight 11 Has Hit WTC
  31. 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
  32. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Military Aide Learns of the First Crash, Goes to Cheney’s Office
  33. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Goes Off Course
  34. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Middle Eastern Men Seen in Sarasota, Cursing President Bush
  35. 2001-09-11 8:51 a.m. September 11, 2001: Last Radio Contact with Flight 77
  36. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.-9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Learning of First Crash, Libby Doesn’t Want to be Disturbed, ‘Unless it’s Terrorism’
  37. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Airport Directors Learn of Crashed and Missing Planes Thought to Be from Their Airport
  38. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Establishes Phone Bridges, Including with the Military, Earlier than Claimed by 9/11 Commission
  39. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:50 a.m. and 9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Former Clinton Administration Official Calls Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Tells Him about the White House Bunker
  40. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.-10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Shelton Learns of Attacks while Flying to Europe, Initially Refused Permission to Return to US
  41. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Told of Attack, Immediately Suspects Bin Laden
  42. 2001-09-11 (Before 8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Expresses Worry about Al-Qaeda Attack
  43. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:50 a.m. and 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Janitor Hears Explosions and Other Strange Noises in North Tower
  44. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:51 a.m. and 8:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force Liaison to FAA Arrives at FAA Headquarters, but Does Not Join Teleconference
  45. 2001-09-11 (Between 8:51 a.m. and 8:59 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Airline President Wonders if American Airlines Plane Hit the WTC after Seeing TV Coverage of Crash
  46. 2001-09-11 8:51 a.m.-8:53 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight Controller Declares Flight 175 Hijacked
  47. 2001-09-11 8:51 a.m.-8:54 a.m. September 11, 2001: Hijackers Take Over Flight 77
  48. 2001-09-11 (8:51 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Traffic Controller Watches Flight 175 Suddenly Climb 3,000 Feet, NEADS Not Contacted
  49. 2001-09-11 8:52 a.m.-8:59 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Passenger Tries to Call Wife
  50. 2001-09-11 (After 8:52 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Scramble Delayed? Witness Casts Doubt on NORAD’s Scramble Time