AMERICAN FLIGHT 77

Flight plan: Washington to Los Angeles. Crashes into Pentagon. 8:20:00 Plane departs from Dulles airport. 8:25:49 Plane is instructed to climb to 27,000 feet. 8:37:33 Plane is instructed to climb to 39,000 feet, but the pilot requests and is granted a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. 8:50:51 Last radio communication with aircraft.

8:56:00 Transponder contact lost. 8:56:32 Controller calls aircraft repeatedly: “American 77, Indy radio check, how do you read?” 8:58:38 An American Airlines dispatcher tells the controller that “we’ll get a hold of him for ya.”

9:02:17 On a second call to American Airlines, the controller says, “We, uh, we lost track control of the guy. He’s in coast track but we haven’t — we don’t know really where his target (radar location) is, and we can’t get a hold of him. Um, you guys tried him and no response . ... Yeah, we have no radar contact and, uh, no communications with him, so if you guys can try again.”

Dispatcher: “We’re doing it.” Controller: “All right. Thanks a lot.” 9:06:31 Controller: “You guys never been able to raise him at all.”

Another controller: “No, we called company. They can’t even get a hold of him. So there’s no, no radar, uh, no radio communications and no radar.” 9:25 Controller observes the plane moving toward Washington.

9:33 Controller informs Operational Supervisor, who in turn informs the Secret Service. The aircraft is observed completing a right 360-degree turn, just south of the Pentagon.

9:36 National Airport instructs a military C-130 that had just departed Andrews Air Force Base to intercept and identify it. The C-130 reports it is a Boeing 767, moving low and very fast.

9:38 Plane crashes into the southwest side of the Pentagon.

Hijackers: Hani Hanjour (Saudi Arabian), Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian), Majed Moqed (Saudi Arabian), Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian), Salem al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian).