Falmouth Community Will Never Forget

Today marks a tragic reminder for the entire world. Several local citizens and businesses stopped by to visit the Falmouth Fire & Rescue Station today to say thanks to the men and women who were on duty today in honor and memory of our lost brothers and sisters from the 9/11 tragedy.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

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.