Ramzi Yousef, who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had planned a massive attack on 12 U.S. Earlier plots also targeted commercial aircraft Some of that is because it was the only one that had four hijackers instead of the five that took down American 11, American 77 and United 175. “The operative likely intended to round out the team for this flight, Mohamed al Kahtani, had been refused entry by a suspicious immigration inspector at Florida’s Orlando International Airport in August,” the 9/11 report said. As the passengers were just seconds away from getting into the cockpit, the hijacker at the controls crashed the plane in an empty field in Shanksville, Pa., just 20 minutes flying time from Washington.ħ. This is the only one of the four hijacked flights that did not strike its intended target, the U.S. Missing hijacker made it easier for United 93 passengers to storm the cockpit United 93, bound from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, had only 37 passengers for a 20% load factor, which was far below the normal 52%. That was a "load factor" of 33%, considerably lower than the 49% average for that flight, a federal investigation showed.Īmerican 77, headed to Los Angeles from Washington, had 58 passengers out of a capacity of 176, the 9/11 report and other reports said. United 175, which also left Boston for Los Angeles, had 56 passengers out of a possible 168.
Light passenger loads made it easier for the hijackers to maneuverĪmerican 11, bound from Boston to Los Angeles, had 81 passengers on board out of a possible 158, according to the 9/11 report and aircraft data.
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