Planes without Passengers Time Line of 9/11 Events

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Appendix B Time Line

Codes for Sources:

HC = historycommons.org

BTS = Bureau of Transportation Statistics

R=9/11 Official Report

DS=Der Spiegel magazine; BG=Boston Globe

USA=USA Today

CM=Local Cleveland media

All times Eastern time zone

7:30 A.M. " Passengers seen waiting in line in front of Gate 26 at Boston (DS)

7:40 A.M. " 11 "pushes back" from Gate 26 in Boston (BG)

7:45 A.M. " 11 "wheels off" from Gate 32 according to anonymous airport employee (BG)

7:58 A.M. " 175 with tail # N612UA "pushes back" from Gate in Boston (BTS)

7:59 A.M. " 11 "wheels off" from Boston (HC, DS)

8:02 A.M. " 93 "pushes back" from Gate in Newark (HC)

8:09 A.M. " 77 "pushes back" from Gate in Dulles (R)

8:14 A.M. " 175 "wheels off" from Boston (HC)

8:20 A.M. " 77 "wheels off" from Dulles (HC)

8:23 A.M. " 175 with tail # N612UA "wheels off" from Boston (BTS)

8:25 A.M. " 1989 "wheels off" from Boston (BTS)

8:28 A.M. " 93 "wheels off" from Newark (BTS)

8:42 A.M. " 93 "wheels off" from Newark (HC)

8:42 A.M. " some sources say this is the time of 175's first sign of deviation from flight plan

8:46 A.M. " World Trade Center 1 (north tower) struck (HC)

8:52 A.M. " Air Traffic Controllers lose contact with 175

9:03 A.M. " World Trade Center II (south tower) is struck (HC)

9:35 A.M. " 93 nears Cleveland, then turns south away from it

9:37 A.M. " Explosion at Pentagon (HC)

9:45 A.M. " FAA orders all planes to land

10:03 " 10:10 A.M. " Crash at Shanksville, PA (seven minute discrepancy) (HC)

10:10 A.M. " First plane of two mystery planes (1989) lands in Cleveland (USA)