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Conflict9:37 a.m., 11 September 2001

American Airlines Flight 77

Also called: AA77, Flight 77

On 11 September 2001 an airliner that left Washington Dulles at 8:20 a.m. was hijacked, turned back near Ohio and flown into the Pentagon at 9:37.

The collapsed west wall of the Pentagon and rescue crews, 14 September 2001, with a US flag hung from the roof
The collapsed west wall of the Pentagon and rescue crews, 14 September 2001, with a US flag hung from the roof

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Cedric H. Rudisill · Public domain · Source

The Boeing 757 carried 59 crew and passengers — and five hijackers. Bound for Los Angeles, it was hijacked near the Ohio–Kentucky border and turned back east. Passenger Barbara Olson phoned her husband, the US Solicitor General, to report what was happening.

At 9:37 a.m., after a wide turn southwest of Washington, the plane flew in low and struck the west wall of the Pentagon. The 59 people aboard and 125 in the building were killed.

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States and rulers at the time
United States · targeted — President George W. Bush
Places
Washington Dulles International Airport, The Pentagon

Before and after

Earlier
2001 American Airlines Flight 11
Later
2001 Closing the American Sky

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