9/11 BY THE NUMBERS American Airlines Flight 11
7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 bound for Los Angeles, takes off from Boston. The fl ight has a two-man fl ight crew, nine fl ight attendants, and 81 passengers — including Mohamed Atta and four other terrorists.
8:14 a.m. An air-traffi c controller’s instruction directing AA Flight 11 to climb to 35,000 feet is ignored. The hijackers stab two fl ight attendants and a passenger. They use pepper spray to force passengers and fl ight attendants to the rear of the plane, and warn they have a bomb.
8:26 a.m. The plane makes an unauthorized turn to the south. Twelve minutes later, it begins a rapid descent.
8:46 a.m. AA Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. All 92 passengers and crew perish.
This timeline chronicles the tragic events as they unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001. United Airlines Flight 175
7:58 a.m. United Flight 175, a Boeing 767 traveling from Boston’s Logan International Airport to Los Angeles, readies at the gate. Sixteen minutes later, it leaves carrying seven fl ight attendants, a two-man fl ight crew, and 56 passengers. Five of them are terrorists.
8:42 a.m. The crew of United 175 fi les a report, communicating with air traffi c control for the last time.
8:51 a.m. United 175 deviates from its assigned altitude. New York air traffi c controllers are unable to contact the aircraft.
8:58 a.m. United Flight 175 turns onto an unauthorized heading, toward New York City.
9:03 a.m. United Flight 175 hits the south tower of the World Trade Center. All 65 passengers and crew die.
United Airlines Flight 93
8:42 a.m. United Flight 93, a Boeing 757 bound for San Francisco, takes off from Newark International. It carries a two-man fl ight crew, fi ve fl ight attendants, and 37 passengers.
9:24 a.m. A warning to guard against “cockpit intrusion” is sent to United 93.
9:26 a.m. Plane suddenly drops 700 feet. “Mayday!” sent, along with sounds of a struggle. Crew member: “Hey, get out of here.”
9:32 a.m. A hijacker announces to passengers: “Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board.”
9:57 a.m. After speaking with family members on their cell phones, passengers fi ght back.
10:02 a.m. Hijacker yells, “Pull it down!” Plane plows into an empty fi eld in Shanksville, Pa. All 44 passengers and crew are killed. Crash is 20 minutes from D.C.
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Conservatives increasingly ask if the wars in the Middle East were worth it. Were they?
I’m one of those who believes very strongly that the only reason we remained safe in this 10-year period is because of our military engage- ments and the work of our military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world, but particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Sept. 11, and the days following Sept. 11, I was told by every reliable intelligence source that was briefi ng me that we would be attacked again; and not just once, but
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a number of times. They had several different examples of how we would be attacked: suicide bombings, pos- sibly another air attack, chemical- biological attack.
That’s why when anthrax hap- pened a month later everyone was certain, at least at fi rst, that it was terrorist attack.
So the attacks haven’t happened in the multitudes and the frequency with which we thought they would happen. Part of the reason for that is the sacrifi ce that our military men and women have made in Iraq and
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Afghanistan. Without that, Islamic- extremists who wanted to continue to devastate us would have had the free- dom and mobility to do so. But tying them up in Iraq and Afghanistan helped to prevent that attack.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told
Newsmax he still fears a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack on a major U.S. city. How likely is that nightmare scenario?
I don’t think anyone can really assess with any degree of certitude the likelihood of it . . . All we can
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