United Airlines Flight 175

Flight 175 was scheduled to depart at 8:00, but departed at 8:14. Had the flight been on time, it would have been hijacked at nearly the exact same time that the Flight 11 was. As it was, the crew of Flight 175 knew about Flight 11's hijacking by the time they were overtaken, at around 8:45 am. The hijackers were Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, Hamza al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Ghamdi, and the suicide pilot, Marwan al-Shehhi. They claimed they had a bomb, although there is no evidence they actually had one. They used knives and mace, and killed members of the flight crew and the pilots.

At 8:47, air traffic control received the first indications that the plane was hijacked. By 8:52 there was no doubt of an emergency situation, as the plane had radically changed course and was not responding. One of the passengers called his mother and told her they were thinking of storming the cockpit. They didn't have a chence; the plane crashed before the passengers had organized.

At approximately 9:03 AM EDT, Flight 175 was crashed into the south side of the southern tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 78 and 84. The plane was carrying 56 passengers (including the 5 hijackers) and 9 crew members. There were no survivors.

The image of the crash was caught by live TV and was broadcast around the world. It was continually replayed in news broadcasts over the next few days, and remains one of the most horrifying and unforgettable images of that day.

The flight route designation, for future flights on the same route, was later changed from Flight 175 to Flight 1525 out of respect for those who died in the attack.

United Airlines Flight 175

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