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Complete 911 Timeline

7279 events in this timeline

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

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  1. 2001-09-11 (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Phones Start Ringing ‘Like Crazy’
  2. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: National Security Adviser Rice Learns of Second Attack, Realizes It Is Terrorism
  3. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force Secretary and Chief of Staff Initially Unaware a Plane Has Hit Pentagon; Head to Operations Center
  4. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Is Told of the Second Crash but Continues with a Routine Briefing
  5. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: DIA Supervisor Thinks Pentagon Is Safest Building in the World
  6. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Manager Linda Schuessler Responds to Second WTC Crash, Secures FAA Command Center
  7. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Lead Secret Service Agent Discusses Emergency Plans with Supervisor
  8. 2001-09-11 (After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Agent Establishes Open Line with FAA
  9. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FBI Activates Its Operations Center to Respond to the Attacks
  10. 2001-09-11 (After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Wants Fighters Scrambled from Andrews; None Are Ready to Fly
  11. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s New York and Washington Center Controllers Told to Watch for Suspicious Aircraft
  12. 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
  13. 2001-09-11 Between 9:03 a.m. and 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Defense Official at Pentagon Says, ‘We’re Next’
  14. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NMCC Commander Concludes US is Under Attack, Yet Does Not Retake Charge of Center
  15. 2001-09-11 (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz Sees the Second Crash on TV, but Continues with a Routine Meeting
  16. 2001-09-11 (After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Wolfowitz Continues Routine Meeting, Rumsfeld Stays in Office
  17. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: WTC 7 Alarms Activate; OEM Calls for Air Security and Warned of Plane Heading for New York
  18. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Officers Realize US Is under Attack, Yet No Fighters Are Launched
  19. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:04 a.m. and 9:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Military Cell Activated at FAA Command Center
  20. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.-9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Members of Bush’s Entourage Are Concerned about the Vulnerability of the President While He Is at the School
  21. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Crash Leads to Confusion at NEADS; Some Think It Is a Simulation
  22. 2001-09-11 9:11 a.m. September 11, 2001: Global Guardian Military Exercise Paused, but Apparently Not Yet Terminated
  23. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.-9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: House Speaker Has Problems Contacting the Vice President; Receives Nuisance Call
  24. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:15 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: New York City Workers Hear Explosions in WTC 7
  25. 2001-09-11 9:04 a.m. September 11, 2001: Military Raises ‘Infocon’ Threat Level
  26. 2001-09-11 9:13 a.m. September 11, 2001: Jet Fuel in South Tower Burns Up
  27. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.-9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Presidential Military Aide Prepares for Air Force One to Leave Sarasota after Learning of Second Crash at WTC
  28. 2001-09-11 9:04 a.m.-9:06 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Talks with Tanker Plane about Refueling Scrambled Fighters
  29. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.-9:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Security around Air Force One Increased amid Fears that Plane May Be a Terrorist Target
  30. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:04 a.m. and 9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Ignores His Aides’ Attempts to Get Him to Respond to the Attacks
  31. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:04 a.m. and 9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Special Assistant Is Worried that the White House Might Be Attacked
  32. 2001-09-11 (9:04 a.m.-9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: People in Buildings near Pentagon Concerned They Might be Targets of Attack
  33. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Notifies FAA that It Wants Fighters Launched; Message Relayed to Air Force Base near Washington
  34. 2001-09-11 9:05 a.m. September 11, 2001: American Airlines Begins ‘Lockout’ of Flight 77 Information
  35. 2001-09-11 9:05 a.m. September 11, 2001: Air Space Closed over New York Area
  36. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:05 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: AWACS Plane near Washington Told to Return to Oklahoma, Limiting NEADS’s Communications and Surveillance Capabilities
  37. 2001-09-11 (9:05 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fire Chief Worried WTC Could Collapse; Other Firefighters Unconcerned
  38. 2001-09-11 (9:05 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Clarke, Cheney, and Rice Talk; Clarke Concludes that Al-Qaeda Is behind Attacks
  39. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:05 a.m. and 9:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Officer Calls Secret Service, Told It Does Not Need Help
  40. 2001-09-11 9:05 am (and After) September 11, 2001: Flight 77 Reappears on Radar, but Flight Controllers Do Not Notice
  41. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:05 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Pilots Upload Required Flight Data to Disks, Which Still Contain Information from Recent Exercise
  42. 2001-09-11 (9:05 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Condoleezza Rice Tries to Assemble National Security Team, but Cannot Reach Key Officials
  43. 2001-09-11 (9:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Told WTC Hit Again and US Is Under Attack; He Continues Photo-Op
  44. 2001-09-11 (9:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Tells Boston Center Flight 175 Is Down, Manager Later Claims
  45. 2001-09-11 9:06 a.m. and After September 11, 2001: FAA Manager Ben Sliney Responds to Second Crash, Declares New York ‘Ground Stop’
  46. 2001-09-11 9:06 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight Controllers Nationwide Are Told Flight 11 Crash Caused by Hijacking
  47. 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
  48. 2001-09-11 (9:06 a.m.-9:16 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Reads Pet Goat Story for Nearly Ten Minutes; Warned Not to Talk
  49. 2001-09-11 Shortly After 9:06 a.m. September 11, 2001: Reagan Airport Instructed to Secure Washington Airspace
  50. 2001-09-11 (9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Contacts Army ‘Collapse Team’ and Requests Help