Sept 11 (Reuters) – Here is a timeline for Sept. 11, 2001, when commercial airliners crashed into the New York World Trade Center twin towers, the Pentagon and, after passengers mounted a counterattack, a Pennsylvania field.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed, including more than 2,600 at the World Trade Center, 125 at the Pentagon, and 265 on the four planes.
THE HIJACKINGS
American Airlines Flight 11
0759 EDT: American Airlines 11 departs from Boston for Los Angeles
0814: The flight has its last routine communication with the ground
0819: A flight attendant calls the airline’s reservation office in North Carolina via an airphone and reports an emergency
0841: A duty manager in American Airlines’ operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, is told air traffic controllers have declared the flight a hijacking and think the plane is headed toward New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport
0844: North Carolina airline employee loses phone contact with the flight attendant. Another flight attendant in a phone call to American’s office in Boston says: “Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent.” Asked to look out a window to try and determine where they were, flight attendant says: “We are flying way too low.” Seconds later she says, “Oh my God, we are way too low.”
0846: Flight 11 crashes into the World Trade Center’s North Tower
1028: North Tower collapses
United Airlines Flight 175
0758: United Airlines 175 departs from Boston for Los Angeles
0842: The flight reports a “suspicious transmission” overheard from another plane (American Airlines 11). It is the flight’s last communication with the ground
0852: A flight attendant calls the airline’s San Francisco office and reports the plane has been hijacked, both pilots killed, a flight attendant stabbed and hijackers probably flying the plane
0858: The flight takes a heading toward New York City
0903: The plane strikes the World Trade Center’s South Tower
0958: South Tower collapses in 10 seconds
American Airlines Flight 77
0810:…