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9-11 Commission Report — Part 19
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On September 11, 2001, AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77, a
Boeing 757/aircraft, departed Dulles International Airport (Iad) at
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6 crew members on board. At 8:50 Am, the last routine radio contact
with the aircraft was made and at 8:54 AM, the aircraft began an
unauthorized turn to the south. Shortly thereafter, radar contact was
lost. At 9:39 AM, Flight 77 deliberately crashed into the southwest
side of the Pentagon, Alexandria, Virginia.
S Investigation to date has determined that Flight 77.
was hijacked by five Middle Eastern males. The hijackers have been
identified as KhALID AL-MIHDhAR, date of birth May 16, 1975 (Seat
12B, Coach Section); NAwAF AL-hAzmI, date of birth August 6, 1976
(Seat 5E, First Class); HANNI HANJOUR, date of birth August 30, 1972
(Seat 1B, First Class); SALEm AL-HAzmI, date of birth February 2,
1981 (Seat 5F, First Class; and MAJED MOQED, date of birth June 18,
1977 (Seat 12A, Coach Section).
7SK The five Flight 77 hijackers were in the United
States on visas and passports from Saudi Arabia. HAnJouR is the
earliest known entry into the United States. He entered the United
a Second Language (EsL) program at the University of Arizona.
Believed to have returned home to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of
1992, HANJOuR re-entered the United States in April 1996 and resided
in Florida for one month. HAnJour then moved to California, where
records indicate he attended ELs Language School in Oakland until
August 1996. HAnJouR began flight training in September '1996 at
Oakland. HANJouR continued flight lessons after he moved to Arizona
at the end of September 1996 when he attended one month of training
at Cockpit Resource Management (crm) in Scottsdale, Arizona.
He then
returned to Saudi Arabia for one year. HAnJouR returned to the
approximately one month. He moved back to Arizona in December 1997
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Arizona Aviation in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 1998, and continued
there until his departure from the United States in April 1999.
-(8) Over a span of three days in the Spring of 199g, AL-
MIHDHAR, NAWAF AL-HAZMI, and SALEM AL-HAZMI obtained visas in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia. Following a meeting,in the beginning of January 2000
with a knOwn USAMA BIN LADEN associate, AL-MIHDHAR and NAWAF AL-HAZMI
entered the United States at Los Angeles, California, on January 15,
2000, and settled in the San Diego area.
While residing in San
Diego, both AL-MIHDHAR and NAWAF
AL-HAzmI undertook flight instruction.
In April 2000, NAWAF
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