List of Planes That Crashed Today

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List of Planes That Crashed Today The Associated Press Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001; 1:20 p.m. EDT

Details on the planes that crashed Tuesday:

–American Airlines Flight 11: A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots. The location of the crash has not been determined.

–American Airlines Flight 77: A Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport near Washington to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots. The location of the crash has not been determined.

–United Airlines Flight 93: A Boeing 757, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh while en route from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco. The plane was carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants.

–United Airlines Flight 175: A Boeing 767. The flight was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. It was carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. The airline would not say where the plane crashed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010911/aponline132046_000.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), September 11, 2001

Answers

It's a measure of the slowed economy that these aircraft were so empty of passengers. The death toll on the 4 planes *alone* could have been much higher.

Of course, airline business will get a whole lot worse now...

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), September 12, 2001.


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