A.M.
8:46:30 |
American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) |
8:47 |
MTA subway operator alerts MTA Subway Control Center of an explosion in the WTC and begins emergency procedures |
8:52 |
PATH trains begin emergency procedures and proceed to evacuate WTC station and return Manhattan-bound trains to New Jersey |
9:02:59 |
United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) |
9:10 |
U.S. Coast Guard closes Port of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of NY and NJ closes all its bridges and tunnels |
9:17 |
FAA shuts down all NYC airports |
9:37:45 |
American Airlines Flight 77 hits the west wall of the Pentagon |
9:58:59 |
South Tower collapses |
10:03:11 |
United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania |
10:20 |
NYC Transit suspends all subway service |
10:28:22 |
North Tower collapses |
10:30 |
NJ Transit stops rail service into Manhattan’s Penn Station |
10:45 |
U.S. Coast Guard calls for “all available boats” to assist evacuation of Lower Manhattan; PATH operations suspended |
11:02 |
Mayor Giuliani calls for evacuation south of Canal Street |
P.M.
5:20 |
7 World Trade Center, headquarters of NYC Office of Emergency Management, collapses |
Sources:
U.S. Department of Transportation’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, “Effects of Catastrophic Events on Transportation System Management and Operations: New York City—September 11,” 2/6/17, https://ntl.bts.gov/lib/jpodocs/repts_te/14129.htm.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, “Final report on the collapse of the World Trade Center towers,” 4/26/17, http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909017.
P.J. Capelotti, Rogue Wave: The U.S. Coast Guard on and after 9/11, Washington, DC, U.S. Coast Guard Historians Office, 4/27/17, https://www.uscg.mil/history/91101/pubs/911_Rogue_Wave.pdf.