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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Commander at Barksdale Air Base Thinks First Crash Is an Exercise Simulation
  2. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Tanker Plane from Maine Flying South along East Coast for Training Mission
  3. 2001-09-11 Shortly Before 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: United Airlines Learns about Flight 175 Hijacking
  4. 2001-09-11 Shortly Before 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Bush’s CIA Briefer Calls His Operations Center and Learns the WTC Was Hit by a Large Plane
  5. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001): Moussaoui Cheers 9/11 Attacks
  6. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Meeting Set to Be Held at Pentagon about ‘Disaster Exercise’ at Nearby Military Building
  7. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Learns of Flight 11 Hijacking, But Does Not Discuss Scrambling Fighters
  8. 2001-09-11 (9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Meets with Advisers, Declares War Without Barriers
  9. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Chief Assures Employees that Crisis Is ‘Not a Drill’
  10. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: 9/11-Styled Simulation Canceled
  11. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m.-9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Army Officials in Meeting at the Pentagon Not Alerted to Crashes at the WTC
  12. 2001-09-11 Before 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska Is Directing Global Guardian Training Exercise
  13. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: WTC South Tower Announcement: OK to Return to Offices
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Passenger on Flight 175 Tells Mother of Planned Fight Back against Hijackers
  17. 2001-09-11 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Passenger Peter Hanson Predicts Crash into Building
  18. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Coast Guard Holds Exercise near President’s Location in Florida, Based on Possible Terrorist Attack
  19. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Activates Its Crisis Center
  20. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Receives Many False Reports of Threats
  21. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Informed of the First Plane Crash, Bush Goes Ahead with Photo-Op
  22. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Chief of Naval Operations Continues with Budget Meeting while US Is Under Attack
  23. 2001-09-11 (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Northern Vigilance Operation Canceled; False Blips Purged from Radar Screens
  24. 2001-09-11 (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s New York Center Tells FAA Command Center about Flight 175 Hijack
  25. 2001-09-11 (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: La Guardia Flight Controllers and Port Authority Unaware of Hijackings
  26. 2001-09-11 (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Claims to See First WTC Crash on Television while at Elementary School
  27. 2001-09-11 (8:57 a.m.-9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Traffic Controllers Watch Flight 175 on Radar as It Heads into New York
  28. 2001-09-11 (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s New York Center Informs TRACON Controllers about Flight 175
  29. 2001-09-11 (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Almost Collides with Another Aircraft
  30. 2001-09-11 9:01 a.m.-9:02 a.m. September 11, 2001: Military Liaison at New York Center Informed of Flight 175 Hijacking; Says Responding Fighters Are in the Air
  31. 2001-09-11 9:01 a.m. September 11, 2001: Otis Fighters Head Away from New York, into Military Training Area over Ocean
  32. 2001-09-11 9:02 a.m. September 11, 2001: Announcement in WTC’s South Tower Advises People to Evacuate
  33. 2001-09-11 9:02 a.m. September 11, 2001: Indianapolis Center Controller Calls American Airlines Second Time, Says Flight 77 Location Unknown
  34. 2001-09-11 (Shortly Before 9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Learns of Second Hijacking over FAA Teleconference
  35. 2001-09-11 (9:02 a.m.-9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Calls NEADS about Second Hijacking
  36. 2001-09-11 (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: WTC Building 7 Evacuated
  37. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Secret Service Learns of Additional Suspicious Planes, but Vice President’s Agents Supposedly Not Alerted
  38. 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
  39. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:03 a.m. and 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: American Airlines and FAA Command Center Again Discuss Loss of Flight 77
  40. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Army’s Crisis Team at the Pentagon Is Activated
  41. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft Learns of Attacks, Wants to Return to Washington
  42. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Military Officers at FAA Command Center Contact NMCC about Response to Attacks
  43. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Building Command Center Reacts to WTC Attacks, but Accounts Conflict over Urgency of Its Response
  44. 2001-09-11 (9:03 a.m.-9:05 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Deputy White House Chief of Staff Learns of Second Crash at WTC and Goes to Tell National Security Adviser Rice about It
  45. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: FBI Bomb Technicians Are Away from New York for Training When the WTC Is Attacked
  46. 2001-09-11 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: President Bush’s Security Agents Watch Second WTC Crash on Television; Bush Continues with Photo-Op
  47. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Members of President Bush’s Traveling Staff Learn of Second Crash and Then Fetch a Television to See Coverage of It
  48. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Bush’s Chief of Staff Card Learns of the Second Crash at the WTC and Thinks Bin Laden Is to Blame
  49. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Officials Reportedly Converge on Vice President Cheney’s Office, but Accounts Conflict
  50. 2001-09-11 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: CIA Near East Division Employees Think Bin Laden to Blame for Attacks