![]() ![]() N612UA, the hijacked aircraft, at San Francisco International Airport in 1999 ![]() The hijackers arrived in Boston from Florida between September 7 and 9. Ī month before the attacks, Marwan al-Shehhi purchased two four-inch (10 cm) pocket knives from a Sports Authority store in Boynton Beach, Florida, while Banihammad bought a two-piece "snap" utility knife set at a Wal-Mart, and Hamza al-Ghamdi bought a Leatherman Wave multi-tool. Part of the training in Malaysia included boarding flights operated by US carriers so they could observe pre-boarding security screenings, flight crew movements around the cabin, and the timing of cabin services. Afterwards, they went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for exercises in airport security and surveillance. ![]() The hijackers were trained at an al-Qaeda camp called Mes Aynak in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they learned about weapons and explosives, followed by training in Karachi, Pakistan, where they learned about "Western culture and travel". The hijackers on Flight 175 included Fayez Banihammad, also from the UAE, and three Saudis: brothers Hamza al-Ghamdi and Ahmed al-Ghamdi, as well as Mohand al-Shehri. By January 2001, the pilot hijackers had completed their training Shehhi obtained a commercial pilot licence while training in South Florida, along with American Airlines Flight 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Flight 93 hijacker Ziad Jarrah. The team of hijackers on United Airlines Flight 175 was led by Marwan al-Shehhi, originally from the United Arab Emirates with a stint in Hamburg, Germany as a student. See also: Hijackers in the September 11 attacks § United Airlines Flight 175: Two World Trade Center, South Tower During the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site, workers uncovered and identified remains from some Flight 175 victims, but many victims have not been identified. By 09:58, after 55 minutes of burning, the damage done to the South Tower by the crash and subsequent fire resulted in it being the first of the Twin Towers to collapse, killing everyone still inside the tower as it fell. News coverage of the crash into the North Tower led to Flight 175's impact being the only one of the four attacks to be televised live around the world. In the 21 minutes between the hijacking and the crash, three people aboard made phone calls to family members and colleagues on the ground and relayed information regarding the hijackers as well as casualties suffered by passengers and crew.Īl-Shehhi flew the airplane into the South Tower at 09:03, in an attack coordinated with the hijacking of Flight 11, which struck the upper floors of North Tower 17 minutes earlier. Immediately thereafter, they made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the cockpit. ![]() Unlike Flight 11, whose transponder was switched off, Flight 175's transponder was visible on New York Center's radar, which depicted the aircraft's deviation from its assigned flight path for four minutes before air traffic controllers took notice at 08:51 EDT. Lead hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi, who had trained as a pilot for the purposes of the attacks, was able to usurp the flight controls once the captain and first officer were eliminated. Twenty-eight minutes into the flight, the hijackers injured several crew members, forcibly breached the cockpit, and murdered both pilots while forcing anyone who remained to the rear of the aircraft. It was the second deadliest of the four crashes on the day in terms of both plane and ground casualties, surpassed only by American Airlines Flight 11. The Boeing 767-200 aircraft, carrying 65 passengers and crew, was deliberately crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing all on-board instantly and causing the deaths of more than 600 people at or above the building's impact zone, in addition to around 250 civilians and emergency personnel below. The flight's scheduled plan was from Logan International Airport in Boston to Los Angeles International Airport in California. United Airlines Flight 175 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. 850 (including emergency workers) at the South Tower of the World Trade Center in crash and subsequent collapse UA 175's path from Boston to New York City on September 11, 2001 ![]()
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