9/11: CHRONOLOGY OF AN EVENT THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.

WHAT DID HAPPEN ON SEPTEMBER 09-2001?     

September 9/2001. The sun was fantastic in New York. Probably, most- if not all- New Yorkers and the entire world believed that it was just one day more in their lifes. Nonetheless,  it was a day that changed humanity, changed the vision towards a certaing geographic place in the World, and that, in fact, changed the World. 

It was 8 am in the morning, and two American Airlines planes departed from Boston to Los Angeles. Fourty-five minutes and one hour later, both planes respectively, crashed into the two homonguous and imponent "Twin Towers", located in the World Trade Center in New York´s downtown. Everything collapsed. The president (George W. Bush) was notified and, since then, the term "War against terrorism" has become a constant in the U.S. 

President George Bush, hours after 9/11 events, said "The attacks were evil, despicable acts of terror". And he declared America "to stand together to win the war against terrorism" (9/11: Timeline of Events). 

MOST IMPORTANT EVENT´S TIMELINE

"•    7:59 am – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 92 people aboard, takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport en route to Los Angeles.

•    8:14 am – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 65 people aboard, takes off from Boston; it is also headed to Los Angeles.

•    8:19 am – Flight attendants aboard Flight 11 alert ground personnel that the plane has been hijacked; American Airlines notifies the FBI.

•    8:20 am – American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C.The Boeing 757 is headed to Los Angeles with 64 people aboard.

•    8:24 am – Hijacker Mohammed Atta makes the first of two accidental transmissions from Flight 11 to ground control (apparently in an attempt to communicate with the plane's cabin).

•    8:46 am – Mohammed Atta and the other hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 crash the plane into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.

•    8:50 am – White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card alerts President George W. Bush that a plane has hit the World Trade Center; the president is visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida at the time.

•    9:02 am – After initially instructing tenants of the WTC's South Tower to remain in the building, Port Authority officials broadcast orders to evacuate both towers via the public address system; an estimated 10,000 to 14,000 people are already in the process of evacuating.

•    9:03 am – Hijackers crash United Airlines Flight 175 into floors 75-85 of the WTC's South Tower, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building

•    9:31 am – Speaking from Florida, President Bush calls the events in New York City an "apparent terrorist attack on our country."

•    9:42 am – For the first time in history, the FAA grounds all flights over or bound for the continental United States. Some 3,300 commercial flights and 1,200 private planes are guided to airports in Canada and the United States over the next two-and-a-half hours.

•    9:59 am – The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

•    10:28 am – The World Trade Center's North Tower collapses, 102 minutes after being struck by Flight 11.

•    11 am – Mayor Rudolph Giuliani calls for the evacuation of Lower Manhattan south of Canal Street.

•    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." (9/11: Timeline of Events). 

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