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How many flights were hijacked on 9/11?
MULTIPLE planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001 which resulted in the deaths of almost 3,000 people.
As 2022 marks the 21st anniversary, we take a look back on the most deadliest attack to occur on US soil.
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How many flights were hijacked on 9/11?
On 9/11, 19 Islamic terrorists hijacked four planes departing from different locations throughout the United States.
The flights hijacked on 9/11 included:
- American Airlines Flight 11, which departed from Logan International Airport at 7:59am en rote to Los Angeles
- American Airlines Flight 77, which departed from Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:20am en route to Los Angeles
- United Airlines Flight 93, which departed from Newark International Airport at 8:42am en route to San Francisco
- United Airlines flight 175, which departed Logan International at 8:14am en route to Los Angeles
While four planes were hijacked, only three crashed into buildings. The destination of United Airlines Flight 93 is still unknown.
What happened on United Airlines Flight 93?
Heroic passengers and crew members stormed the cockpit and most likely saved lives by preventing the four hijackers on board from crashing the plane into the unknown destination.
All 44 people aboard the plane were killed when it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
“The attitude of passengers tended to be that airlines would give the hijackers what they wanted, and so there was relatively little threat to the passengers,” Brendan Koerner, author of The Skies Belong To Us, told .
“There aren’t really that many instances of passengers getting involved.”
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Some authorities believe that the target was either The White House or the Capitol Building in DC as the hijackers were targeting populated buildings and American Airlines Flight 77 had already attacked the West wall of the Pentagon.
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Who was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks?
Osama bin Laden was a founder of Al-Qaeda who orchestrated the September 11 terror attacks.
Following the attacks, President George W. Bush sent troops to Afghanistan to find Bin Laden, who was finally hunted down and killed by US forces in May of 2011, nearly 10 years following 9/11.
It was revealed that Bin Laden may have communicated with terrorists by encoding messages into porn videos.
The claim was part of a the National Geographic special, titled Bin Laden's Hard Drive, which analyzed and revealed the digital materials recovered in his compound.
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