9-11 Timeline Game Show

--8:38 a.m.: Boston air traffic center notifies NORAD that American Airlines flight 11 has been hijacked.

--8:43 a.m.: FAA notifies NORAD that United Airlines flight 175 has been hijacked.

--8:44 a.m.: Otis Air National Guard Base in Mass. orders to fighters scrambled.

--8:46 a.m.: American Airlines flight 11 strikes the World Trade Center's north tower.

--8:47 a.m.: NORAD informed of the plane striking the World Trade Center.

--8:50 a.m.: United Airlines flight 175 deviates from its assigned flight path.

--8:52 a.m.: Two F-15 Eagles take off from Otis ANG Base in effort to intercept hijacked plane(s) after first plane has struck the World Trade Center.

--9:02 a.m.: United Airlines flight 175 strikes the World Trade Center's south tower (F-15 fighter jets from Otis ANG Base are still 70 miles away.)

9:05 a.m. *csm
Bush is visiting a class when White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispers to the president that a second plane has struck the World Trade Center.

--9:25 a.m.: FAA notifies NORAD that United flight 77 may have been hijacked.

--9:27 a.m.: (approximate time) NORAD orders jets scrambled from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to head to intercept United Airlines flight 77.

--9:31 a.m.*csm
Bush calls the crashes an "apparent terrorist attack on our country."

--9:35 a.m.: Three F-16 Fighting Falcons take off from Langley AFB headed toward Washington area.

--9:37 a.m.: American Airlines flight 77 is lost from radar screens.

--9:38 a.m.: American Airlines flight 77 strikes the Pentagon.

--9:49 a.m.: F-16 fighter jets arrive over Washington, D.C. to perform Combat Air Patrol (CAP) over city. (The fighters broke the sound barrier and traveled supersonic at 720 knots to Washington, making the approximately 130 miles in 14 minutes.)

The following timeline is for United Airlines flight 93, scheduled to fly from Newark International Airport to San Francisco. The flight crashed in Pennsylvania.

--8:42 a.m.: United Airlines flight 93 takes off from Newark International Airport.

--9:16 a.m.: FAA informs NORAD that United Airlines flight 93 may have been hijacked.

--9:40 a.m.: Transponder signal from United flight 93 ceases and radar contact is lost.

--10:02 a.m.: After a review of radar tapes, a radar signal is detected near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

9/11 Timeline Game Show

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Okay, final question ...
How long does it take an
F-16 Fighting Falcon to scramble and intercept a hijacked commercial airliner?

Contestant #1, you wrote 27 minutes. You are incorrect.

27 minutes was how long it took to notify the President after NORAD was alerted, although he was at a location where he could have been reached in seconds.

Strangely, Bush later said that he found out when he saw the first plane hit the WTC on television, but that isn't possible.

He says he knew we were under attack when he was told about the second WTC strike. By this time the severity of the situation was obvious. Bush "turned somber" and then continued reading with school children.

"Why did it take them so long to tell Bush that the planes had been hijacked? That kind of emergency demands immediate action. Why didn't Bush act immediately, or issue any orders?"

Errr...we in the media don't ask those kinds of questions.

Contestant #2: You wrote 26 minutes. That, too, is incorrect.

26 minutes was how long it took President Bush to make a statement after he heard the news of the second World Trade Center strike. In the meantime he listened to 18 children read a story about a pet goat.

"Aaawwww! A pet goat!"
"That is so sweet"
"What a great president."

But wait! By that time they knew another hijacked jet was heading for Washington, DC!
Andrews Air Force Base is 10 miles from the Pentagon, with squadrons of jet fighters ready for any emergency, but the Air Force scrambled F-16s from 130 miles away. Why???

"Why didn't they call in the
F-16s from Andrews?"

"Why weren't fighters already patrolling the skies of Washington, DC?"

"Why didn't Bush act immediately?"

"They had plenty of time to stop the Pentagon hit!"

"Why was standard procedure not followed?"

"Why wasn't the Pentagon evacuated?"

People, people, come on! Asking questions like that makes you seem unpatriotic.

Okay, Contestant #3: You wrote Thirteen billion. I'm sorry, that's wrong.

$13 billion dollars is how much The Carlyle Group, a private bank, has invested in companies that make money off of war. Carlyle group members include former CIA, Defense Department and State Department officials, like the President's father, George Bush, Sr., Frank Carlucci, James Baker, and more.

Bin Laden - Carlyle Group connection

The Carlyle Group's investors have included the family of Osama Bin Laden. In fact, The Carlyle Group was meeting with representatives of the Bin Laden family at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC on the morning of September 11.

Our president could literally inherit many millions of dollars from the defense contracts he is awarding now as he seeks to eliminate "evil" from the face of the earth.

I know. I have money in Carlyle, too. I'm a California state employee. Our retirement fund, CalPERS, has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in The Carlyle Group. Of course, we had that much invested in Enron, too, but with Carlyle it's different. If the War on Terror lasts the rest of our lifetimes like Cheney says, The Carlyle Group will make me AND the President rich!

CALpers has their pension funds sunk into the Carlyle Group

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Q One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country. And another thing is that, how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack? (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my Chief of Staff, Andy Card -- actually, I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident.

But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack."

And, Jordan, I wasn't sure what to think at first. You know, I grew up in a period of time where the idea of America being under attack never entered my mind -- just like your Daddy's and Mother's mind probably. And I started thinking hard in that very brief period of time about what it meant to be under attack. I knew that when I got all of the facts that we were under attack, there would be hell to pay for attacking America. (Applause.)