The military got first word of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking nine minutes before it hit the World Trade Center.

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He included the airline in his claims for damages after American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles struck the north tower of the trade center, killing 86 passengers and crew members, along with the hijackers.

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The mood was much more somber at the Pentagon memorial a few miles away, where 184 people died when a hijacked American Airlines Flight crashed on September 11, 2001.

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On Sept. 11, 2001 Lewin, Akamai's chief technology officer, boarded the American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles, on his way to a business meeting.

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