Flight 77 began to deviate from its normal, assigned flight path and turned south.[50] The hijackers then set the flight's autopilot in the direction of Washington, D.C.[51] Passenger Barbara Olson called her husband, United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson, and reported that the plane had been hijacked and that the assailants had box cutters and knives.[50][52] At 09:37, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west facade of the Pentagon, killing all 64 aboard (including the hijackers) along with 125 in the Pentagon.[53]