Posted on 09/10/2023 8:06:11 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
NEW YORK — Here’s how the 9/11 terror attacks unfolded on September 11, 2001, at the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and on Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. 9/11 Timeline
5:45 a.m. – Hijackers pass through security in Portland, Maine, and board a flight to Boston, where they connect to American Airlines Flight 11.
6:00 a.m. – Polling stations open, as September 11 was a primary election day in New York City.
This June 23, 1999, file photo shows the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
7:59 a.m. – Flight 11 takes off from Boston for Los Angeles. Eleven crew members, 76 passengers, and five hijackers are on board.
8:15 a.m. – Flight 175 takes off from Boston for Los Angeles. Nine crew members, 51 passengers, and five hijackers are on board.
8:19 a.m. – Flight 11 crew members alert ground personnel that a hijacking is underway. Shortly before, one hijacker stabbed a passenger, Daniel Lewin, who was seated in front of him. Officials speculate that Lewin may have tried to stop the hijackers and was likely the first victim of the attacks.
Thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center was, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
8:20 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 77, en route to Los Angeles, takes off from Washington, D.C. Six crew members, 53 passengers, and five hijackers are on board.
8:24 a.m. – Attempting to communicate with passengers, a hijacker contacts air traffic control, unwittingly alerting controllers to the attacks.
8:37 a.m. – Boston air traffic control alerts the military. Air National Guard jets in Massachusetts are mobilized to follow Flight 11.
8:42 a.m. San Francisco-bound United Airlines Flight 93 takes off at Newark following a delay. Seven crew members, 33 passengers, and four hijackers are on board.
8:46 a.m. – Flight 11 crashes into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower.
Smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York.
8:50 a.m. – President George W. Bush is alerted. His advisors assume this is a tragic accident.
8:55 a.m. – The South Tower is declared secure.
8:59 a.m. – Port Authority police order the evacuation of both towers. A minute later, the order is expanded to the entire World Trade Center complex.
9:00 a.m. – A flight attendant aboard Flight 175 alerts air traffic control that a hijacking is underway.
People run from the collapse of one of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo.
9:03 a.m. – Flight 175 crashes into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower.
9:05 a.m. – President Bush learns that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Twenty-five minutes later, he addresses Americans, saying that “terrorism against our nation will not stand.”
9:05 a.m. – Flight 77 passenger Barbara Olson calls her husband, U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who alerts other federal officials of the hijacking.
9:36 a.m. – Secret Service agents evacuate Vice President Dick Cheney to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center beneath the White House.
9:37 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. The crash and fire kill 59 on the plane and 125 on the ground.
The south side of the Pentagon burns after a plane crash in Washington, Sept. 11, 2001.
9:42 a.m. – The FAA grounds all flights.
9:45 a.m. – The White House and U.S. Capitol are evacuated.
People cover their faces as they escape the collapse of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center following terrorist attacks, Sept. 11, 2001.
9:59 a.m. – The South Tower collapses in 10 seconds after burning for 56 minutes. More than 800 people in and around the building are killed.
10:03 a.m. – United Airlines Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers and crew storm the cockpit. Forty passengers and crew on board perish.
Emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001.
10:15 a.m. – The Pentagon’s outer ring collapses.
10:28 a.m. – The North Tower collapses after burning for 102 minutes. More than 1,600 in and around the building are killed.
11:02 a.m. – New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani orders the evacuation of Lower Manhattan.
12:16 p.m. – The last flight still in the air above the continental United States lands.
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
12:30 p.m. – A group of 14 survivors emerge from a North Tower stairwell.
3:00 p.m. – A survivor, Pasquale Buzzelli, is rescued from the rubble of the North Tower.
5:20 p.m. – After burning for hours, 7 World Trade Center collapses, There are no casualties.
Firefighters make their way through the rubble after terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows in New York, Sept. 11, 2001.
8:30 p.m. – President Bush addresses the nation from the White House, assuring Americans that a search is underway for “those who are behind these evil acts.”
10:30 p.m. – Rescuers locate and extract two PAPD officers injured but alive in debris of the World Trade Center.
Why did TWICE the number of people die from the North Tower collapse then from the South Tower? It was hit first, and hit much higher up, presumably trapping fewer people, but also collapsed 29 minutes later than the South Tower, giving more time to escape.
And then Obama’s friends around the world celebrated the slaughter of almost 3,000 innocent civilians who were just going to work one morning.
***NOTEThis image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 11 September 2009. It was captioned as follows: "A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center." **[This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.]
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Can anyone on Freep post the original thread from that day 9/11/2001? That must be incredible to read now.
Can anyone detail the rapid exit of Saudi officials from the U.S. after all flights were grounded?
Is this fiction?
Or is it real?
Freeper BKO, Barbara K Olson, conservative commentator and wife of the solicitor general on Flight 11 at the Pentagon.
Freeper BCM, Battalion Chief John Moran of FDNY at WTC.
Here you go:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520255/posts
It was the first post about it on the day it happed.
Yep. That’s the first and oldest.
There i a very source that showed the design of the complex building structure. I will try to re-find.
There also is a long video which I have been unable yet to view in entirety. I have one son with Covid who sleeps continuously but I believe is on the mend and my daughter that is currently hospitalized for seizure of unknown etiology. I also must admit my memory of the 9/11 events is difficult. I just cannot finish this video as I am exhausted.
My Grandfather just struck midnight it is now 9-1-11-2023.
May God continue to preserve and Bless America.
VIDEO TITLE: “9/11 Remembered” Steve Emerson September 16, 2020
QUOTE: ‘We still remember the 2,977 innocent souls in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania who died at the hands of Islamic extremists operating underneath the loose radar and wide cracks dividing our law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
In those 19 years, we have tried to fix the scandalous technical holes and gaps that existed in the very agencies designed to protect us. Looking back, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security’s record stopping Islamist terrorist attacks—although far from perfect – has stymied the dreams of al-Qaida, ISIS and others to execute an attack of a similar magnitude.
At the same time, there remains an unwillingness within the media, law enforcement and other government agencies to speak candidly about the ideological motivation driving the threat – radical Islamism – and an unhealthy embrace of activist groups that whitewash that threat.
This country is playing with fire. For if you can’t even mention who your enemy is, then you will never defeat it. Yes, we all recognized what al-Qaida stands for and stated that it was our enemy. We defeated the core group and took out its leader. The same with ISIS.”
https://ccnationalsecurity.org/9-11-remembered/
I figured it must be because I never saw one that was posted sooner. That’s why I’ve held onto it all these years.
I remember that day very well. I woke up early, in time to see the first plane crash into the tower. I never wake up early.
At the time, I was friendly with Freeper Ken5050. We actually exchanged phone numbers and on 9/11 he called as he ran down the street in NYC because his daughter worked in one of those towers. Fortunately she got out. But I got firsthand description. Especially touching, papers put up on bulletin boards saying “I got out”. and “has anyone seen?”
As news continued, I discovered that , when I was in Florida. I had been going to a wonder physical therapist whose office was across the street from a place one of the hijackers had frequented.
Chilling.
Everyone above the first impact zone was trapped as all stairwells were severed. Many above the second impact site were able to escape down the single remaining intact stairwell.
Yes. We lived in NY, not NYC. Extremely sad memories.
My husband remembered his work associates. I also cared for my Mom with dementia & tried to explain that what happened to our country was similar to Pearl Harbor which she thankfully could not believe. I was homeschooling my other children & we were frozen to the television broadcast.
I phoned my daughter in FL & had her pulled out of a office meeting to tell her as well. No one knew working in her department at that time. I told her all I could think of that could of done this were the Islamic terrorists because of their hatred for America. I also told her our country would probably be going to war. That day, my oldest daughter & son stood in line to donate blood.
9-11: May we never forget
Thank you so much for your post.
Thank you for your post.
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