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Conflict9:03 a.m., 11 September 2001

United Airlines Flight 175

Also called: UA175, Flight 175

On 11 September 2001 an airliner that left Boston at 8:14 a.m. was hijacked and flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03, live on television.

Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center, seen across New York Harbor on the morning of 11 September 2001
Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center, seen across New York Harbor on the morning of 11 September 2001

Flickr user Michael Foran · CC BY 2.0 · Source

The Boeing 767 carried 60 crew and passengers — and five hijackers. After the hijacking the plane flew southwest as far as New Jersey, then turned northeast toward New York.

At 9:03 a.m. it struck floors 77–85 of the south tower. Television cameras trained on the burning north tower broadcast the moment live, and the world understood that this was no accident but an attack.

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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

Earlier
2001 Collapse of the World Trade Center
Later
2001 United Airlines Flight 93

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