** 8:20 am: American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. The Boeing 757 is headed to Los Angeles with 64 people aboard.
** 8:24: One of the hijackers (name given but I do not honor them with a name) aboard Flight 11 makes one of two accidental transmissions to ground control. Evidently he was trying to communicate with the plane's cabin.
** 8:40: Air traffic controllers at the federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alert North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)'s Northeast Defense Sector (NEADS) about the suspected hijacking of Flight 11. In response, NEADS scrambles two fighter planes located at Cape Cod's Otis Air National Guard Base to locate and tail Flight 11; they are not yet in the air when Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower.
** 8:41: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 44 people aboard, takes off from Newark (NJ) International Airport en route to San Francisco. It had been scheduled to take off at 8:00 am, about the same time as the other hijacked flights.
** 8:46 am: (Name given, but dishonored) and other hijackers crash Flight 11 into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.
By 7:46 am, I am at school preparing for my first class to start at 7:55 am.
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