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% On September 11, 2001, AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77, a Boeing 757 abrcraft, departed Dulles International Airport (IAD) at 8:20 AM en route to Los Angeles with S58 passengers and 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. 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 SE, 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). - 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 States on October 3, 1991, from Saudi Arabia to attend the English as 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 Sierra Aeronautical Academy Airline Training Center, also located in 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 ‘United States in November 1997 and again resided in Florida for approximately one month. He moved back to Arizona in December 19397 and resumed flight training at CRM. HANJOUR then began training at Arizona Aviation in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 1998, and continued there until his departure from the United States in April 1999. ea Over a span of three days in the Spring of 1999, 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 NAWAP ; ; AL-~HAZMI undertook flight instruction. In April 2000, NAWAF SE 5 REQ 3-lq 000000082