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At 7:59 AM, American Airline flight 11 took off with 92 people aboard from Boston’s Logan International Airport on its was to Los Angeles.
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At 8:14 AM flight 175 took off from Boston
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At 8:19, flight attendants from flight 11 notify ground personnel that the plane has been hijacked.
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At 8:20 AM American Airlines Flight 77 takes off with 64 passengers from Dulles International Airport to Lost Angeles
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At 8:24 AM, Hijacker Mohammed Atta makes two transmissions and Hijacker Mohammed Atta makes the first of two accidental transmissions from Flight 11 to ground control accidentaly notifies ground personnel in attempt to communicate with the plane’s cabin.
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At 8:41 AM, a Boeing 757 with 44 people aboard, takes off from Newark International Airport.
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At 8:46 AM Flight 11 crash the plane into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The plane crashed specifically into floors 93-99.
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At 8:50 AM, President George W. Bush is notified of the terrorist attack while reading to students at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.
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At 9:24 AM, passengers on the plane call family members about their fight (Flight 77) being hijacked. The FAA notified NEADS about the hijacking.
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At 9:37 AM, Flight 77 crashes into the western façade of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing a total of 184 people (passengers and personnel inside the building).
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For the first time in the continental United States, at 9:42 AM, all flights are grounded and notified to land in airports in Canada and the United States.
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At 9:59 AM, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
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At 10:07 AM, passengers on flight 93 call families and learn of the previous terrorist attacks. They assume that their flight is also going to contribute in the attacks and begin to fight the hijackers. The plane crashes into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, killing all 40 passengers and crew aboard.
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At 10:28 AM, The World Trade Center’s North Tower collapses, 1 hour and 42 minutes after being attacked.
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At 9:03 AM, United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into floors 75-85 of the World Trade Center's South Tower.
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In 8:30 PM, President Bush addresses the nation, calling the attacks “evil, despicable acts of terror” and declaring that America, its friends and allies would “stand together to win the war against terrorism.”
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Three days after 9/11, President George W. Bush visited ground zero (at the place of the WTC attack) and gave his famous motivational Bull Horn Speech on atop of the rubble.
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President Bush Declares “War on Terror” that would lead to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
