9/11 Timeline - Remembering 9/11 (Pictures)
Posted on September 11, 2008
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the devastating attacks on 9/11. We have included the 9/11 timeline of events in this post. Relatives and friends of victims killed at the World Trade Center arrived to remember their loved ones. See 9/11 videos and the 9/11 Moment of Silence video below. Read more after the bump.
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Today, 9/11 commemorates the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, in which we all remember those that lost their lives in the devastating attacks. Both John McCain and Barack Obama are scheduled to arrive at ground zero today.
There was a moment of silence to mark the time that the two hijacked jetliners crashed into the twin towers, along with the moments that the buildings collapsed. There will also be a service to dedicate a new memorial, beind held in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.
Family members and students from more than 90 countries that lost victims on Sept. 11 were to read names of more than 2,700 people killed in New York.
About 3,500 people attended last year’s ceremony, down about 25 percent from 2006.
“We’ve kept it alive, and perhaps kept it alive too long,” said Charles Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, was killed at the World Trade Center. “How many times do you reopen the wounds?”
Wolf, who lives in downtown Manhattan, attends the ceremony every year but said it has become more painful, especially to stand in silence for the moment that a plane crashed into the tower where his wife worked. “It’s one thing to remember,” he said, “but it’s another to relive it.”
n Arlington, Va., Defense Secretary Robert Gates was scheduled to speak at a ceremony dedicating the memorial at the Pentagon, the first of three major Sept. 11 memorials to be completed.
The 2-acre park, located at the spot where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon’s west wall, consists primarily of 184 cantilevered benches, each bearing a victim’s name.
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush marked the 9/11 seventh anniversary with a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House. The president was then heading to the Pentagon memorial.
Here is the timeline of events on 9/11, seven years ago:
s the world marks the seventh anniversary of the attack on the twin towers, we look back at the key events of that day .
7.58 - United Airlines Flight 175 to Los Angeles leaves Boston’s Logan Airport with 65 people on board, including five suspected hijackers.
8.01 - United Airlines Flight 93 to San Francisco leaves Newark Airport in New Jersey with 45 people on board, including four suspected hijackers.
8.02 - American Airlines Flight 11 to Los Angeles leaves Boston’s Logan Airport with 92 people and five suspected hijackers on board.
8. 10 - American Airlines Flight 77 to Los Angeles leaves Washington DC’s Dulles Airport with 64 people on board, including five suspected hijackers.
8.28 - An air traffic controller hears one of the hijackers speaking from the cockpit of Flight 11, saying: “Don’t do anything foolish. You are not going to get hurt. We have other planes.”
l 8.43 - Two F-15 fighters take off after authorities confirm that Flight 175 has also been hijacked.
l 8.46 - Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
9.03 - Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
9.10 - President George Bush is told of the attacks. He had been reading to children in a classroom.
9.29 - Eyewitnesses report seeing people jumping from the Twin Towers.
9.40 - Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon in Washington DC, causing the collapse of a five-storey section of the building and killing 190 people inside.
9.58 - A passenger from Flight 93 makes an emergency call saying: “We are being hijacked!”
10.03 - Flight 93 crashes 80 miles south east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its intended target was believed to be Washington.
10.05 - The south tower collapses, 62 minutes after being hit.
10.29 - The north tower collapses. The death toll was feared to be as high as 20,000 but gradually dropped to about 2,800.
Our thoughts go out to all of those that lost family and loved ones in the 9/11 attack, seven years ago.
Here’s the observed “moment of silence” for 9/11:
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