September 11, 2001

7:59 A.M. EDT
American Airlines Flight 11 leaves Boston's Logan Airport, bound for Los Angeles, carrying ninety-two passengers and crew.

8:01 A.M.
United Airlines Flight 93 leaves Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco with forty-five people aboard.

8:10 A.M.
American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington, D.C.'s Dulles Airport for Los Angeles with sixty-four people on board.

8:14 A.M.
United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston's Logan Airport for Los Angeles with sixty-five passengers and crew.

8:28 A.M.
American Flight 11 veers off course, south toward New York. An air traffic controller overhears conversation from the cockpit and realizes the plane has been hijacked.

8:46 A.M.
American Flight 11 crashes into the north tower, Tower One, of the World Trade Center between the ninetyfourth and ninety-eighth floors. (Some accounts give the time as 8:48 A.M.)

9:03 A.M.
United Flight 175 crashes into the south tower, Tower Two, of the World Trade Center...