NEW YORK (CNN):In an apparently coordinated terrorist attack against the United States , four commercial passenger jets crashed on Tuesday, three of them into significant landmarks.

• American Airlines Flight 11,carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members, slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9am. Approximately 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers, and nine crew members on board, crashed into the South Tower of the World Trace Center.
  

• Both towers eventually collapsed in a shower of debris and a plume of thick dust.
  

• A half an hour after the second crash, American Flight 77 took off from Washington DC's Dullies Airport en route to SanFrancisco carrying 58 passengers and 6 crew members -- but crashed into the Pentagon instead. Less then an hour later, United Flight 93 crashed near Sharksville,Pa. with 38 passengers and 7 crew members on board.
  

• The FBI said it believes all 4 planes, carrying 226 people, were hijacked.
  

• The Pentagon, White House, the State Department,the Justice Department,the Capitol, the CIA, and all other government buildings are evacuated.
  

• President Bush calls the crashes "a national tradgedy". Later in the day President Bush issues a statement from Barksdale AFB, near Shreveport,Louisana stating:" Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowerdly acts."
  

• In the first-ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide are stopped at their departure airports.
  

• International flights are initially diverted to Canada; FAA says later however that 22 U.S. -bound international flights will be allowed to land.
  

• Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeff, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, says in reaction to the terror attacks, "we want to tell American children that Afghanistan feels your pain and we hope the courts find justice."
  

• Mullah Omar, the Taliban spiritual leader, condems the attacks and denies that Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire who has been blamed for attacks against the U.S. interests and is believed to be in Afghanistan, was responsible.
  

• In New York, more then 10,000 rescue personnel rush to the scene. Evacuation of lower Manhattan begins.
  

• Israel evacuates all of its missions around the world.
  

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is evacuated. CDC prepares bioterrorism teams in case they become necessary.
  

• Philadelphia landmarks are evacuated.
  

• In Chicago, the Sear's Tower is evacuated; the United Nations Building in New York is evacuated.
  

• Two aircraft carriers and five other ships are deployed along the east coast of the U.S. and two aircraft carriers go to New York area, all from Norfolk, Va.
  

• The New York Port Authority closes all bridges and tunnels into the city.
  

• U.S. Stock Markets close in New York after attacks.
  

• NATO sends home all non-essential personnel from its Brussels, Belgium headquarters.
  

• The Immigration and Naturalization Service puts the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada on highest state of alert.
  

• Los Angeles International Airport is evacuated.
  

• Disney closes its parks in Orlando,Florida and Disneyland in Anaheim,California.
  

• FEMA implements plan established for such events: FBI leads investigation, and Justice Department heads crisis management.
  

• Three Palestinian groups--Hamas, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Islamic Jihad--deny responsibility for the attacks, but blame U.S. policies in the Mideast.
  

• Washington DC and New York declare states of emergency.
  

• A Delta Flight makes emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio and all passengers are safely evacuated. Federal Officials search the plane for a possible bomb.
  

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