American Airlines Flight 11

American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 from Boston to Los Angeles departed from Boston's Logan airport at 08:02 EDT. It was fully laden with fuel for the six-hour flight. At 08:48 it crashed into the north tower of New York's World Trade Center killing all 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and both pilots.

Flight details: Captain John Ogonowski or one of his his crew members managed to push a button that allows air traffic controllers to hear some cockpit conversation. "Don't do anything foolish. You are not going to get hurt," a hijacker was heard to say at 08:28.

Hijackers: Suspected hijackers on this flight have been named by the FBI as Waleed M Alshehri, Wail Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami.