United Airlines Flight 175

United Airlines Flight 175
	UA 175's flight path from Boston to New York City on September 11, 2001.
Air hijacking summary
Date	Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Summary	Airplane hijacking, Suicide attack
Place	World Trade Center, New York City, U.S.
Passengers	51 (plus 5 hijackers)
Crew	9
Fatalities	60, plus 5 hijackers, on aircraft;; approximately 900 (including emergency workers) at the South Tower of the World Trade Center
Survivors	0 (None on Aircraft)
Aircraft type	Boeing 767–222
Airline/user	United Airlines
Registration	N612UA
Flew from	Logan Int'l Airport
Flying to	Los Angeles Int'l Airport

United Airlines Flight 175 was the second hijacked airplane of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The flight was traveling from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

It crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The plane was hijacked by five members of al-Qaeda. The plane was a Boeing 767. 56 people (including 5 hijackers) and 9 crew members died in the crash. The time of the crash was 9:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time. Unlike American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the North Tower 17.5 minutes earlier, Flight 175 was the only plane seen live on television because of the media attention drawn to the scene from the crash of Flight 11.

Aircraft

The hijacked aircraft at San Francisco International Airport in 1999.

The plane shortly after crashing into the south tower of the original World Trade Center.

The aircraft used in the attack was a Boeing 767-222. The aircraft had a registration of N612UA, and it was built in 1983 by Boeing.^[1] The airplane could seat 168 passengers in total (10 seats in first class, 33 seats in business class, and 125 seats in economy class). On this particular flight, 56 passengers (5 of which were hijackers), and nine staff members. All together, United Airlines Flight 175 carried 65 people on the morning of September 11.^[2]

United Airlines Flight 175 Media

Gate C19 at Boston's Logan International Airport was the boarding gate of United Flight 175 on September 11, 2001. An American flag was added to memorialize the site.
Two New York air traffic controllers communicate the positioning of United Airlines Flight 175 live.
Diagram of the impact position of both aircraft
A video showing UA175 crashing into the South Tower
After burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower collapsed at 9:59, 29 minutes before the North Tower's collapse, despite being hit 17 minutes later.
A piece of fuselage on the roof of 5 World Trade Center
Airplane engine parts from Flight 175
Panel S-2 of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum's South Pool, one of three on which the names of victims from Flight 175 are inscribed
A portion of the fuselage from the flight