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Conflict8:46 a.m., 11 September 2001

American Airlines Flight 11

Also called: AA11, Flight 11

On 11 September 2001 a Boston–Los Angeles airliner that left at 7:59 a.m. was hijacked and flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York at 8:46.

Lower Manhattan and the twin towers of the World Trade Center from New York Harbor, August 2001 — a month before
Lower Manhattan and the twin towers of the World Trade Center from New York Harbor, August 2001 — a month before

Carol M. Highsmith · Public domain · Source

The Boeing 767 carried 87 crew and passengers — and five hijackers. About fifteen minutes after take-off five hijackers seized the cockpit; with its transponder off, the plane turned south near Albany, New York, and followed the Hudson River down.

Flight attendants Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney used the cabin phones to report the hijacking and the hijackers’ seat numbers. At 8:46 a.m. the plane struck floors 93–99 of the north tower. At first many people thought it was an accident involving a small plane.

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States and rulers at the time
United States · targeted — President George W. Bush
Places
Boston Logan International Airport, World Trade Center

Before and after

Later
2001 American Airlines Flight 77

Themes that include this event

  • The September 11 Attacks1988 – 2014

    Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the four airliners hijacked on the morning of 11 September 2001 and the fall of the twin towers, the closing of the American sky, twenty years of war in Afghanistan and the death of bin Laden, and the memorial pools in the towers’ footprints