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Just to confirm, is the story still that one of the 'hijackers' was identified after his passport was found on the ground in Manhattan?
Gareth, I have heard this story in several cases, including I believe the other plane that crashed in the field as well. I think one of the things they found was a passport for one of the culprits on that flight, the big thing is that they were all in perfect condition when found, prompting the conspiracy folks to conclude that they were planted.
However in the case of flight 11, it's fact that the hijackers were identified by the cabin crew of the flight itself. As flight 11 was being taken over and flown toward the towers, 2 of the cabin crew made recorded telephone calls to American airlines staff. They began making phone calls on the in flight phones when the takeover started, they became alerted when business class became filled with what they described as a substance like mace and they were having trouble breathing in the forward section. It was at that point that they also lost contact with the cockpit as nobody was answering the phone in there and they were locked out. One of the attendants was able to reach a ticket desk at the airport where she was based and was speaking to her co-workers, she gave them the seat numbers of the hijackers which they pulled up on the computers, they all registered using their real identities. They first name that came up when they checked the seat numbers was Atta, the alleged leader of the group.