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12 UCW SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2021 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM COVER A timeline of events on the morning of 9/11 shows how attacks unfolded a STAFF REPORT On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes bound for California. e planes departed from airports in Boston; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C. September 11 would become an infamous date in American and world history, and the events of that day would forever change the world. As the world commemorates the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the following timeline, courtesy of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, can help people fully understand how events unfolded on that late-summer morning two decades ago. 5:45 a.m. Two of the hijackers pass through security at Portland International Airport in Maine. ey take a short flight to Boston Logan International Airport, where they join three other hijackers and board American Airlines Flight 11. 6:00 a.m. Two of the hijacked planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, will eventually crash into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. e day was a significant one on the New York City political calendar, as polling stations opened at 6 a.m. for primary elections. 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston with 11 crew members, 76 passengers and five hijackers on board. e plane, which will eventually crash into the North tower at the World Trade Center, is filled with more than 76,000 pounds of fuel. 8:15 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston with nine crew members, 51 passengers, and five hijackers on board. is flight also is loaded with 76,000 pounds of fuel. 8:19 a.m. American Airlines ground personnel are alerted by flight attendant Betty Ann Ong that Flight 11 is being hijacked. In the moments before Ong's call, one of the hijackers stabbed Daniel M. Lewin, who was sitting in front of him in first class. Lewin is likely the first person killed in the 9/11 attacks. 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Washington Dulles In- ternational Airport. e flight has 49,900 pounds of fuel and is carrying six crew members, 53 passengers and five hijackers. 8:21 a.m. e transponder on Flight 11 is turned off. is device is meant to allow air traffic controllers to identify and monitor the flight path of a plane. 8:37 a.m. e Boston Air Traffic Control Center alerts the military that a hi- jacking is under way. 8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 takes off from Newark International Air- port. Seven crew members, 33 passengers and four hijackers are on board. e flight is filled with 48,700 pounds of fuel. 8:46 a.m. Five hijackers crash Flight 11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Hundreds, including everyone on board the flight, are killed instantly. e crash severs all three emergency stairwells, trap- ping hundreds of people above the 91st floor. 8:46 a.m. Police, paramedics and firefighters are sent to the North Tower. 8:50 a.m. While visiting an elementary school in Florida, U.S. President George W. Bush is notified that a small plane has hit the North Tower. 8:52 a.m. A flight attendant aboard Flight 175 reaches a United Airlines opera- tor in San Francisco and reports the flight is being hijacked. By 9 a.m., various passengers on Flight 175 have called family members. 8:55 a.m. e Port Authority informs people inside the South Tower on a pub- lic address system the building is secure and there is no need to evacuate. 8:59 a.m. e Port Authority Police Department orders both towers evacu- ated. One minute later Captain Anthony Whitaker expands the order to include all civilians in the entire World Trade Center complex. 9:02 a.m. An evacuation order is broadcast in the South Tower. 9:03 a.m. Five hijackers crash Flight 175 into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower. All onboard the flight are killed, as are an unknown number of people inside the building. Two of the three emergency stairwells are impassable and most elevator cables are severed, trapping many people above the impact zone and inside elevator cars. 9:03 a.m. A second call for mobilization brings the total number of New York City Police Department officers responding to the scene to roughly 2,000. In addition, the FDNY issues a fifth alarm and deploys several hundred additional firefighters to the scene. 9:05 a.m. President Bush is informed that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. 9:12 a.m. Flight attendant Renee A. May calls her mother and tells her that hijackers have seized control of Flight 77. When May's call is disconnected, she calls American Airlines. 9:30 a.m. Amidst reports of additional hijacked planes, the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management at 7 World Trade Center is evacuated. 9:37 a.m. Hijackers crash Flight 77 into the Pentagon. All 53 passengers and six crew members perish, and 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground are killed in the fire caused by the crash. 9:42 a.m. e Federal Aviation Administration grounds all flights, ordering all civilian planes in United States airspace to land. Departures also are prohibited. 9:45 a.m. Evacuations at the White House and U.S. Capitol begin. Both the House of Representatives and Senate are in session as the evacuation begins. 9:58 a.m. Flight 93 is flying low enough to the ground that passenger Edward P. Felt is able to reach an emergency 911 operator in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 9:59 a.m. e South Tower collapses after burning for 56 minutes. e tower collapses in just 10 seconds. 9:59 a.m. Continuity-of-government procedures are implemented for the first known time in American history. 10:03 a.m. Four hijackers crash Flight 93 into a field near the town of Shanks- ville, Pennsylvania. All 33 passengers and seven crew members on board perish. Passengers and crew had stormed the cockpit, and the plane ultimately crashes just 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C. 10:15 a.m. e E Ring of the Pentagon collapses. 10:28 a.m. e North Tower collapses after burning for 102 minutes. More than 1,600 people are killed as a result of the attack on the North Tower. 11:02 a.m. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urges the evacuation of lower Manhattan. 12:16 p.m. e last flight still in the air above the continental United States lands. Within two and a half hours, U.S. airspace has been cleared of roughly 4,500 commercial and general aviation planes. (Photo by Robert J. Fisch) (Photo by Don Halasy) (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cedric H. Rudisill)