SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TIMELINE

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.