L a w

Enforcement Sensitive AMERICAN

AIRLINES FLIGHT

# 1 1

INVESTIGATIVE

SUMMARY

(LES)

O n

September 11,2001,

at approximately 7:59 a.m., American Airlines (AA)

Flight

#11,

a Boeing 767 aircr aft, departed from Log an International Airpo rt, Boston M assachu setts, bou nd

for

L os

Angeles,

California, with

81

passengers and

11

crew mem bers on bo ard. Five Middle East ern mal es usin g box cutters and possibl y mace or pepper spra y hijacked th e

flight

approxi mately 14 minu tes into the

flight.

The FBI has

identified five

hijackers aboar d Fligh t

11 .

They

ar e

MOHAMED

ATTA,

date

of

birt h September

1 ,

1968 (Seat

8D ,

Business Class); ABDUL AZIZ

A L

OMARI,

date o f birth May 28, 1979 (Seat 8 G , Business Class); SAT AM AL SUQA MI, dat e o f birt h June 28,1976 ( Seat 10B, Busines s Clas s); W AL EED AL SHEHRI, date of birth Decembe r

20,1978

(Se at 2B, First Cla ss) ; and WA IL AL S HEH RI, date of birth July 31,

1973

(Seat

2A ,

First

Class).

(LES)

T h e

cockpit voice recorder

from

th e

flight

has not

been recovered

from

th e

crash site.

A n unknown

individual keyed

th e

microphone that comm unicated with

the Air

Traffic

Control Tower

and the

following information

w as

recorded. Tower

w as

trying

to

verify

if

Flight

# 1 1 w as

trying

to

contact

th e

Tower.

T h e

person

o n

Flight

#11,

n o t

further

identified,

stated

th e following:

W e

have

some planes. Just stay

quiet

and you will b e o.k. We are returning to the airport. The

Tower

tried to

verify

again i f F light

# 1 1

was t rying to contact the Tower. The person on Flight

#1 1

stated th e

following:

Nobody move, everything is o.k. If you try to make

an y

moves

y o u

will

injure yourself

and the

airplane. L et's stay quiet.

T h e

person

o n

Flight

# 1 1

then

stated: Nobody move please,

we are

going

back

to the

airport. Don't

try to

make

an y

stupid

moves. (LES) I nte rvi ews of em ployees of the

airline

revealed three pre-crash telephone calls with the

following

details pertaining

to the

takeover

of the

aircraft.

BETTY

O N G

advised Ope rations

Specialist NYDIA

GONZALEZ that she was Fligh t Attendant Num ber 3 on F light

11 .

(RAY CORNELL

SCOTT,

manager

o n

duty

at the

Information

Center

fo r

Am eri can A irl ines

w as

advised of t he Emergency phone call and lis tened to t he call.) ONG sta ted the individu al who

w as

seated

in 9B

appeared

to be

dead. Fligh t Attendant Nu mb er

1 was

stabbed,

in

serious condit ion and h ad

been

placed on o xygen. Fligh t Attendant Num ber 5 had also been stabbed, but

was not

described

as

being

in

serious condition.

O N G

relayed that

a

passenger

who was

seated

in

10B

w as

currently

in the

cockpit.

T h e

passenger's name

w as

provided

an d

phonetically reported

as

SAMIR

A L

ASAQUAMI (SATAM

A L

SUQAMI).

O N G

advi sed that passeng ers seated in

seats

2A, 2B and

10

B participated in the takeover of Flight

11 .

These individuals were

identified

by the

manifest

as

Passenger

2A ,

WAIL

A L

SHEH RI; Passe nger

2B as

WALEED

A L

SHEHRI an d

Passenger

10 B as SATAM A L SUQAMI. O N G advised th e First Class

passengers

h ad

been

moved to t he coach secti on but did not

specify

if this was done by the

flight

crew

or the

hijackers.

O N G

began explaining that

th e

plane

w as

rapidly descending

an d

that they were

going

down fast. Thereafter

th e

phone call

w as

disconnect ed. SCOTT looked

at the

clock which

indi cated the time was

approximately

8:43

a.m.

LaAV

Enforcement Sensitive

JICI

04/19/02