What is American Airlines Flight 77?
{{Infobox aircraft occurrence |occurrence_type = Hijacking |name = American Airlines Flight 77 |image = 757 pentagon.gif |caption = Two still images from a Pentagon [[American Airlines Flight 77#Security camera video|security camera video]] immediately before and after the crash highlighting Flight 77 prior to impact |date = {{start-date|Tuesday, September 11, 2001}} |type = [[Suicide attack|Suicide]] [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacking]] |site = West wall of [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]], [[Arlington, Virginia|Arlington]], Virginia |fatalities = {{nowrap|59, plus 5 hijackers, in aircraft<br />125 in Pentagon}} |aircraft_type = [[Boeing 757|Boeing 757-223]] |origin = [[Washington Dulles International Airport|Washington Dulles Int'l Airport]] |destination = [[Los Angeles International Airport|Los Angeles Int'l Airport]] |operator = [[American Airlines]] |tail_number = {{airreg|N|644AA}} |passengers = 53 (plus 5 hijackers) |crew = 6 |survivors = none from aircraft |injuries = 106 (on ground) }} '''American Airlines Flight 77''' was [[American Airlines]]' [[transcontinental flight]] from [[Washington Dulles International Airport]], in [[Dulles, Virginia]] to [[Los Angeles International Airport]] in Los Angeles, California. The flight flew every day in the morning on this [[route]]. On September 11, 2001, the aircraft flying this route—a [[Boeing 757|Boeing 757-223]]—was [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacked]] by five [[al-Qaeda]] terrorists. The hijackers crashed the plane into [[the Pentagon]] on purpose. The crash was part of the [[September 11 attacks]]. The hijackers went into the cockpit and made the passengers move to the back of the plane less than 35&nbsp;minutes into the flight. [[Hani Hanjour]], one of the hijackers who was trained as a [[pilot]], took over the flight. [[Passengers]] on the plane were able to make telephone calls to loved ones. They also called people to tell them what was happening on the plane. The hijackers did not know that passengers were doing this. [[Barbara Olson]], wife of [[Solicitor Gen