Click2Flicks - World Trade Center - Chapter 3 - The Attack - American 11

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>WORLD TRADE CENTER</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 3 - THE ATTACK - AMERICAN 11</b></font></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">An American Airlines Boeing 767 (Flight 11) left Boston’s Logan Airport at 7:59 EDT heading for Los Angeles. <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/100401picts.htm" target="_blank"><b>Mohamed Atta</b></a> (who had flown to Boston from Portland, Maine <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/100401.htm" target="_blank"><b>early</b></a> on 9/11 and whose suitcase, containing a video on flying airplanes, a fuel consumption calculator and a copy of the Koran was later found at Logan Airport) was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/americas/2001/day_of_terror/the_four_hijacks/flight11_seatplan.gif" target="_blank"><b>on board</b></a>. So were <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/penttbom/aa11/11.htm" target="_blank"><b>four other</b></a> hijackers.</p> <p>When Atta and his compatriots took control of Flight 11, they <a target="_blank" href="images/diverted.gif"><b>diverted</b></a> the plane south toward New York City. Betty Ong, the “number 3" attendant on Flight 11, was able to reach someone on the ground <a href="http://www.sept112001.org/news_gail_part3-1.jsp" target="_blank"><b>to report</b></a> what was happening in the plane.</p> <p>Air traffic controllers could hear part of <a href="http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/norad-faa-response/transcript-flight-11.txt" target="_blank"><b>the conversation</b></a> in the cockpit after the hijackers took control. (A quick-thinking member of the flight crew had managed to activate that system.)</p> <p>At 8:28 EDT, one of the attackers said:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Don’t do anything foolish. You are not going to get hurt. We have more planes. We have other planes.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Flight 11 <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537692_planeone_footage09_vi.ram" target="_blank"><b>struck</b></a> the <a target="_blank" href="images/north.gif"><b>North</b></a> Tower <a target="_blank" href="images/between.gif"><b>between</b></a> the 95th and 103rd floors at 8:46:40 EDT. (You need RealAudio Media to watch the BBC video of the plane striking the tower.) All 92 <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/12/victim-capsule-flight11.htm" target="_blank"><b>people onboard</b></a> died, including nine flight attendants and both pilots.</p> <p>One of the “other planes” was already on its suicide-murder mission.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="world_trade_ch2.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="world_trade_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="world_trade_ch4.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>