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8:01 a.m.
Submit a timeline entry Flight 93 is delayed for 41
minutes on the runway in
Newark, finally taking off
at 8:42. The Boston Globe
credits this delay as a
major reason why this was
the only one of the four
flights not to succeed in its
mission. [Boston Globe,
11/23/01] [Newsweek,
Email updates __ _ 9/22/01, Pittsburgh Post- United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757.
I Your email ! Go Gazette, 10/28/01 (B)]
Apparently Flight 93 has to wait in a line of about a dozen planes before it car
takeoff. [USA Today 8/12/02]

8:25 a.m.
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Boston flight controllers notify other flight control centers of the Flight 11
View mode (info): hijacking, but supposedly they don't notify (NORAD for another 6 or 15 minute
Compact (see (8:40 a.m.)). [8:25:00, Guardian, 10/17/01] Note that this means the
controllers working Flights 77 and Flight 93 would have been aware of Flight 1
hijacking from this time. [Village Voice 9/13/01]

(8:42 a.m.)
Flight 93
takes off
Theaes from Nev
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WORLD September 12, 2001 Posted: 12:27 PM EOT (1627 GMT)
U.S.
WEATHER
BUSINESS
8:45 a.m. (all times are EDT): A hijacked passenger jet, American
SPORTS Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north
POLITICS tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building
LAW and setting it afire.
SCI-TECH
SPACE
HEALTH
9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines
ENTERTAINMENT Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of
TRAVEL the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings
EDUCATION are burning.
CAREER
IN-DEPTH
9:17 a.m.: The Federal Aviation Administration shuts
QUICK NEWS down all New York City area airports. plane hits WTC.
LOCAL
COMMUNITY 9:21 a.m.: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey orders all
MULTIMEDIA bridges and tunnels in the New York area closed.
E-MAIL SERVICES
CNN ON PDA
ABOUT US 9:30 a.m.: President Bush, speaking in Sarasota, Florida, says the country has
suffered an "apparent terrorist attack."
CNN TV
what's on
show transcripts
9:40 a.m.: The FAA halts all flight operations at U.S. airports, the first time
CNN Headline News in U.S. history that air traffic nationwide has been halted.
CNN International
askCNN 9:43 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, sending up
a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately.

9:45 a.m.: The White House evacuates.

9:57 a.m.: Bush departs from Florida.

10:05 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses,
plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and debris forms
and slowly drifts away from the building.

10:08 a.m.: Secret Service agents armed with

automatic rifles are deployed into Lafayette Park
across from the White House.

10:10 a.m.: A portion of the Pentagon collapses.

10:10 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, also hijacked, Pentagon burns.
crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast
of Pittsburgh.

10:13 a.m.: The United Nations building evacuates, including 4,700 people
from the headquarters building and 7,000 total from UNICEF and U.N.
development programs.

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