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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 2001-09-11 Shortly Before 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Acting Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Learns of First Crash from Television
  7. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.-9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Navy Command Center Personnel Think WTC Crash Is an Accident
  8. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: National Communications System Coordinating Center Activated in Response to Attacks
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 2001-09-11 (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD’s Colorado Operations Center Sees WTC Television Footage
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 2001-09-11 8:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: Message about Hijacking of Flight 11 Sent to Key American Airlines Officials
  26. 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
  27. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: American Airlines Learns of Plane Hitting WTC
  28. 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
  29. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Informs NORAD that Flight 11 Has Hit WTC
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Goes Off Course
  33. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Middle Eastern Men Seen in Sarasota, Cursing President Bush
  34. 2001-09-11 8:51 a.m. September 11, 2001: Last Radio Contact with Flight 77
  35. 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’
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 2001-09-11 (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Told of Attack, Immediately Suspects Bin Laden
  41. 2001-09-11 (Before 8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Expresses Worry about Al-Qaeda Attack
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 2001-09-11 8:51 a.m.-8:53 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight Controller Declares Flight 175 Hijacked
  46. 2001-09-11 8:51 a.m.-8:54 a.m. September 11, 2001: Hijackers Take Over Flight 77
  47. 2001-09-11 (8:51 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Traffic Controller Watches Flight 175 Suddenly Climb 3,000 Feet, NEADS Not Contacted
  48. 2001-09-11 8:52 a.m.-8:59 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Passenger Tries to Call Wife
  49. 2001-09-11 (After 8:52 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Scramble Delayed? Witness Casts Doubt on NORAD’s Scramble Time
  50. 2001-09-11 (8:52 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Passenger Details Stabbing