United Airlines Flight 175

United Airlines Flight 175 was a morning flight that regularly flew from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, to LAX in Los Angeles, California (Boston-Los Angeles route). The airplane on the flight, a Boeing 767-222 with registration number N612UA, was hijacked and crashed in New York City during the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was the second plane hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center. The first had been American Airlines Flight 11.

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Logan International Airport - Boston, Massachusetts - LAX - Los Angeles, California - Boeing 767-222 - Hijacked - New York City - September 11, 2001 attacks - World Trade Center - American Airlines Flight 11

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Flight 175 was scheduled to depart at 8:00 EDT, and left the gate at 7:59, but due to routine morning taxiing times, the flight departed the runway at 8:14. Had the flight been scheduled to depart 15 minutes earlier, it would have been hijacked at nearly exactly same time as Flight 11. The crew of Flight 175 knew about the prior hijacking by the time they were overtaken, at around 8:45. 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, though this is not substantiated. The assailants used knives and mace to kill members of the flight crew and the pilots.

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Fayez Banihammad - Mohand al-Shehri - Hamza al-Ghamdi - Ahmed al-Ghamdi - Marwan al-Shehhi

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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, as the plane had radically changed course and was not responding. Despite reports that one of the passengers called his mother and told her they were thinking of storming the cockpit, it appears that no such intervention took place.

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At approximately 9:03, Flight 175 flew 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.

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The image of the crash was caught by live TV because of coverage of the Flight 11 crash into the north tower 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.

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The flight route designation for future flights on the same route, departing at approximately the same time, was later changed from Flight 175 to Flight 1525 out of respect for those who died in the attack. Since then, United Airlines has renumbered all its flights, the current flight number is Flight 163.

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