American Airlines Flight 11

**American Airlines flight 11** was an American Airlines Boeing 767 flight that left Boston's Logan International Airport to go to Los Angeles International Airport at a scheduled 7:59am every morning. It crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

## September 9, 2001

Mohammed Atta is seen at Logan International Airport taking notes on the behavior of the flight crew on board American Airlines Flight 11.

## The hijacking

Flight 11 takes off at 7:59am and is several minutes late. The last communication with Flight 11 was around 8:13am when it reached it's crusing altitude. At about 8:14am, Waleed al-Shehri, and Wail al-Shehri, sitting in seats 2A and 2B walked uup to two flight attendants and stabbed them. Daniel Lewin who was sitting in back of Satam al-Suqami tried to interfere, but was killed by most likely Suqami. After Wail and Waleed had stormed the cockpit, Mohammed Atta the trained pilot took over the plane. The hijackers moved the remaining passengers to the back of the plane. Betty Ong, a flight attendant called American flight controllers on the ground. Midway through the hijacking Mohammed Atta turned on the transponder and said "We have some planes, and a bomb on board. We are going back to the airport. If you try to make any stupid moves you will just endanger yourself and the plane"

At 8:46:40, the plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

## Pilots

* John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Massachusetts, captain
* Thomas McGuinness, Jr., 42, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, first officer

## Flight Attendants

* Barbara Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Mass., flight attendant
* Jeffrey Collman, 41, Novato, Calif., flight attendant
* Sara Low, 28, Batesville, Ark., flight attendant
* Karen Martin, 40, Danvers, Mass., flight attendant
* Kathleen Nicosia, flight attendant
* Betty Ong, 45, Andover, Mass., flight attendant
* Jean Roger, 24, Longmeadow, Mass., flight attendant
* Dianne Snyder, 42, Westport, Mass., flight attendant
* Madeline Sweeney, 35, Acton, Mass., flight attendant

## Passengers

* Anna Allison, 48, Stoneham, Massachusetts, founder A2 Software Solutions
* David Angell, 54, Pasadena, Calif., creator and executive producer of 'Frasier'
* Lynn Angell, Pasadena, Calif.
* Seima Aoyama
* Myra Aronson 52, Charlestown, Mass., press and analyst relations manager
* Christine Barbuto, 32, Brookline, Mass., TJX Co.
* Berry Berenson, 53, Los Angeles, actress and photographer
* Carolyn Beug, 48, Santa Monica, California
* Kelly Booms, 24, Boston, Mass., PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Carol Bouchard, 43, Warwick, R.I., Kent County Hospital emergency room secretary
* Neilie Casey, 32, Wellesley, Mass., TJX Co.
* Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington, Massachusetts, security analyst for Compaq
* Tara Creamer, 30, Worcester, Mass.
* Thelma Cuccinello, 71, Wilmot, New Hampshire
* Patrick Currivan, 52, Dublin, Paris and Boston
* Brian Dale, 43, Warren, N.J.
* David DiMeglio, Wakefield, Mass.
* Donald Ditullio, 49, Peabody, Mass., Smith and Nephew
* Albert Dominguez, 65, Sydney, Australia
* Alexander Filipov, 70, Concord, Massachusetts, electrical engineer
* Carol Flyzik, 40, Plaistow, N.H., medical computer equipment demonstrator for Meditech
* Paul Friedman
* Karleton D. B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline, Mass., John Hancock
* Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury, Mass., vice president and general manager, Raytheon Co. plant
* Linda George, 27, Westboro, Mass., TJX Co.
* Edmund Glazer, 41, Chatsworth, Calif., CFO of MRV Technologies, Inc.
* Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham, Mass., TJX Co.
* Andrew Curry Green, 34, Los Angeles, Calif., director of business development, eLogic
* Paige Farley Hackel, 46, Newton, Massachusetts, spiritual counselor
* Peter Hashem, 40, Tewksbury, Mass., senior engineering manager, Teradyne Inc.
* Robert Hayes, 37, Amesbury, Mass., sales engineer, Netstal
* Edward Hennessey, Jr., 35, Belmont, Mass., consultant
* John Hofer
* Cora Holland, 52, Sudbury, Mass., Sudbury Food Pantry at Our Lady of Fatima Church
* Nicholas Humber, 60, Newton, Mass., owner of Brae Burn Management
* Waleed Iskandar, 34, London, England, consultant for Monitor Group
* John Jenkins 45, Cambridge, Mass., corporate office services manager, Charles River Associates
* Charles Jones, 48, Bedford, Mass., computer programmer
* Robin Kaplan, 33, Westboro, Mass., TJX Co.
* Barbara Keating, 72, Palm Springs, Calif.
* David Kovalcin, 42, Hudson, N.H., Raytheon Co.
* Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham, Mass., founder and CEO of research firm Market Perspectives
* N. Janis Lasden, 46, Peabody, Mass., General Electric
* Daniel John Lee, 34, Los Angeles
* Daniel M. Lewin, 31, co-founder and CTO of Akamai Technologies
* Susan MacKay, 44, Westford, Mass., TJX Co.
* Chris Mello, 25, Boston, analyst
* Jeff Mladenik, 43, Hinsdale, Ill., interim CEO at eLogic
* Antonio Montoya, 46, East Boston, Mass., housekeeping worker, Boston Harbor Hotel
* Carlos Montoya
* Laura Lee Morabito, 34, Framingham, Mass., national sales manager for Qantas Airways
* Mildred Naiman, Andover, Mass.
* Laurie Ann Neira
* Renee Newell, 37, Cranston, R.I., America Airlines customer service agent
* Jacqueline Norton, 60, Lubec, Maine, retiree
* Robert Norton, 82, Lubec, Maine, retiree
* Jane Orth, 49, Haverhill, Mass., retired from Lucent Technology
* Thomas Pecorelli, 31, Los Angeles, cameraman for Fox Sports and E! Entertainment Television
* Sonia Puopolo, 58, Dover, Massachusetts, former ballet dancer
* David Retik, Needham, Massachusetts
* Philip Rosenzweig 47, Acton, Mass., Sun Microsystems executive
* Richard Ross, 58, Newton, Massachusetts, the Ross Group
* Jessica Sachs, 22, Billerica, Mass., accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Rahma Salie, 28, Boston
* Heather Smith, 30, Boston, Beacon Capital Partners
* Douglas Stone, 54, Dover, New Hampshire, co-owner of Odyssey Press
* Xavier Suarez
* Michael Theodoridis, 32, Boston, consultant
* James Trentini, 65, Everett, Mass., retired teacher and assistant principal
* Mary Trentini, 67, Everett, Mass., retired secretary
* Lana Tu, 18, Los Angeles, Calif., student
* Pendyala "Vamsi" Vamsikrishna, 30, Los Angeles, Calif., project manager for consulting firm, DTI
* Mary Alice Wahlstrom, 75, Kaysville, Utah
* Kenneth Waldie, 46, Methuen, Mass., Raytheon Co.
* John J. Wenckus, 46, Torrance, Calif., tax consultant
* Candace Lee Williams, 20, Danbury, Conn., student
* Christopher Zarba, Jr., 47, Hopkinton, Mass., software engineer at Concord Communications

## Hijackers

* Waleed al-Shehri
* Wail al-Shehri
* Mohamed Atta al-Sayed
* Abdulaziz al-Omari
* Satam al-Suqami