Here's how the terror attacks unfolded on September 11, 2001.
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.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.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.
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.
8:42 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.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.8:59 a.m. - Port Authority police order the evacuation of both towers.
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." 9:37 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. The crash and fire kill 59 on the plane and 125 on the ground.AP Photo/Tom Horan, File9:45 a.m. - The White House and U.S. Capitol are evacuated.
Emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001.10:28 a.m. - The North Tower collapses after burning for 102 minutes. More than 1,600 in and around the building are killed.12:16 p.m. - The last flight still in the air above the continental United States lands.
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