[TricornHat]

I put this mini timeline together to help me get some of the basic facts of today's tragedy straight. It is very basic information from various news reports, but I think it is fairly accurate. Even my local TV station still had United Flight # 175 unaccounted for - the report of the airline's refusal to say where it crashed was still in the sidebar an hour ago. This list includes that flight as the second plane to hit the World Trade Center, as confirmed by John Ashcroft in his news conference.

I hope this helps sort through the conflicting reports that persist. Yes, I searched, but did not find this information in one place on this site.

[Keyes For President]

Thank you.

[cookcounty]

All 4 planes flying almost empty-----why?

[ao98]

Thank you for putting the info together. On Fox news they reported that the military thinks they know the target of flight 93, the plane that crashed in PN. There is a nearby fort that has an underground national control center. I'm still wondering if we shot down this flight,or if it crashed on its own.

[WFTR]

If anyone knows why these flights were so empty, I'd like to hear. Those flights should hold 130 to 200 people. For them to be less than half-full at this time of day should be some kind of clue. Did the terrorists take them during boarding? Did the terrorists buy up tickets to have fewer people to control?

[TricornHat]

Another potential target of this flight according to other threads was Camp David - to mark the anniversary of Carter's "peacemaking" there in 1978.

These exact times were just repeated (confirmed?) on TV news.

The name of the town in PA near the crash is Shanksville, I have learned.