m., when two hijackers slashed two female flight attendants, and Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari rose from their seats to go to the cockpit. Lewin, seated a row behind them, moved to stop the pair, "not realizing that another [hijacker] was sitting behind him," the report said. The hijacker behind Lewin, probably Satam al Suqami, stabbed him in the back. That was likely the only way they could have killed Lewin, his friends said. "If anyone was going to get him, they were going to come from behind," said Todd Dagres, a venture capitalist who met Lewin when he was studying at MIT and later backed his company. "Nobody that approached him from where he could see him would ever get the better of him, ever.