Intercept Procedures II

9:00 am

The deputy director of operations and his assistant in the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center (NMCC) have been notifying senior Pentagon officials of the first WTC tower being hit. At around 9 a.m., the senior NMCC operations officer contacts the Operations Center at FAA headquarters asking for information, and is informed of the hijacking of Flight 11. This is the earliest time mentioned by the 9/11 Commission Report that the NMCC learns of this hijacking.
9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 35


Time Boston Center Starts Notifying Chain of Command: 0825 am
AA11 time of crash: 0846 am


...In the event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious means by the FAA...