9/11 Timeline Remembered on Seventh Anniversary

September 11, 2001 has been honored, mourned, and used for all kinds of purposes in the last seven years. But for all of the after effects of 9/11, it's timeline was relatively brief. The 9/11 timeline only took about almost three hours to change everything, as we are constantly reminded it did. The 9/11 timeline mainly took place during the morning hours of a regular day in New York, Boston, Pennsylvania and more. The 9/11 timeline is largely known to everyone in America, but on 9/11 itself, the wounds and memories are made fresh to us on every anniversary.

The 9/11 timeline is mainly known by many to have started at 8:46 a.m. eastern time, when American Airlines Fight 11 was the first plane to crash into one of the World Trade Center towers. But the real 9/11 timeline of events began at 7:58 a.m., when the first of the hijacked planes, United Airlines Flight 175, took off from Boston's Logan Airport.

Within 12 minutes time, all of the 9/11 hijacked planes were in the air, as United 93 took off from San Francisco at 8:01, Flight 11 took off from Logan at 8:02, and American Airline Flight 77 took off from Dulles at 8:10.

Just 18 minutes later in the 9/11 timeline, the coordinated hijackings seem to have begun. Flight 11 is taken over as soon as 8:28 a.m., as an air traffic controller heard a Flight 11 hijacker saying they had other planes. Flight 175 was confirmed to have been hijacked at 8:43, just three minutes before the rest of the country was first made aware that something was going on in 9/11.

The famous 9/11 strikes took place at 8:46, then at 9:03 when Flight 175 crashed into the second tower. President Bush's now famous "My Pet Goat" sequence when first hearing about the 9/11 attacks started, almost fittingly, at 9:10.

The 9/11 timeline expanded to include Flight 77's crash into the Pentagon at 9:40. At 9:58, a call was heard from United 93 of a passenger yelling that the flight was hijacked. Five minutes later at 10:03, United 93 made it's famous crash into a Pennsylvania field instead of being crashed into a national target.