American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda members on September 11 in 2001. The aircraft crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing all 92 people aboard and an unknown number in the building’s impact zone. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane was scheduled to be on the flight but arrived at the airport late.
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American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda members on September 11 in 2001. The aircraft crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing all 92 people aboard and an unknown number in the building’s impact zone. The Boeing 767-223ER, registration N334AA, was flying American Airlines’ daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Logan International Airport in Boston to Los Angeles. Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the attacks, and a fellow hijacker, Abdulaziz al-Omari, boarded Colgan Air Flight 5930 in Portland, Maine, at 05: 41 Eastern Daylight Time. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane was scheduled to be on the flight but arrived at the airport late. Three other hijackers, Waleed al-Shehri, Wail al- shehri and Satam al-Suqami, arrived at Logan Airport at 06: 45, having left their rental car in the airport parking facility. Atta checked in for extra luggage scrutiny, but he boarded without incident. Since they were not given boarding passes for Flight 11, Atta and Omari checked in and went through security in Boston. Waleing al- Shehri did not check in for any bags; Wail Suqami did not load any bags in his rental car; and Marwan Al-Sheghi did not loaded any bags into his car. The crew members were Captain John Ogonowski, First Officer Thomas McGuinness; and flight attendants Barbara Arestegui, Jeffrey Collman, Sara Low, Karen Martin, Kathleen Nicosia, Betty Ong, Jean Roger, Dianne Snyder, and Amy Sweeney.
All 92 people on board were killed, including David Angell, his wife Lynn Angell, and actress Berry Berenson, the widow of Anthony Perkins. Before the hijacking was confirmed, news agencies began to report on the incident and speculated that the crash had been an accident. The impact and subsequent fire caused the North tower to collapse 102 minutes after the crash, resulting in hundreds of additional casualties. During the recovery effort, workers recovered and identified dozens of remains from Flight 11 victims, but many body fragments could not be identified. The capacity of the aircraft was 158 passengers, but the September 11 flight carried 81 passengers and 11 crew. The flight from Portland departed on time and arrived in Boston at 6:45am local time on September 11, 2001. It was a light load at 58 percent capacity, but higher than the average load factor for Flight 11 on Tuesday mornings of 39 percent in the months preceding September 11. The passengers included Mark Wahlberg, wife of Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell, and Leighanne Littarrell, who canceled her ticket at the last minute. The hijackers injured at least three people, forcibly breached the cockpit, and overpowered the captain and first officer. Air traffic controllers noticed the flight was in distress when the crew was no longer responding.
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