Editing Salem al-Hazmi (section)

==Attacks==
{{Main|American Airlines Flight 77}}
On September 11, 2001, al-Hazmi boarded [[American Airlines Flight 77]]. Airport surveillance video from [[Dulles International Airport]] in [[Northern Virginia]] shows two of the five hijackers, including Salem al-Hazmi, being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off [[metal detectors]].<ref>[http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/072304/nat_LA0604-2.shtml] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014025716/http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/072304/nat_LA0604-2.shtml|date=October 14, 2008}}</ref>

The flight was scheduled to depart at 08:10, but ended up departing 10&nbsp;minutes late from Gate&nbsp;D26 at Dulles. The last normal radio communications from the aircraft to [[air traffic control]] occurred at 08:50:51.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gregor |first=Joseph A. |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/info/ATC_%20Report_AA77.pdf |title=ATC Report American Airlines Flight 77 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |date=2001-12-21 |access-date=2008-06-01}}</ref> At 08:54, Flight&nbsp;77 began to deviate from its normal, assigned flight path and turned south, and then hijackers set the flight's [[autopilot]] heading for Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/info/autopilot_AA77_UA93_study.pdf |title=Study of Autopilot, Navigation Equipment, and Fuel Consumption Activity Based on United Airlines Flight&nbsp;93 and American Airlines Flight&nbsp;77 Digital Flight Data Recorder Information |last=O'Callaghan |first=John |author2=Bower, Daniel  |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |date=2002-02-13 |access-date=2008-06-01}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Glen |url=http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/planes_reconstruction.htm |title=Probe reconstructs horror, calculated attacks on planes |work=The Boston Globe |date=2001-11-23 |access-date=2008-06-01}}</ref>  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 on the ground in the Pentagon.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/info/AAL77_fdr.pdf |title=American Airlines Flight 77 FDR Report |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |date=2002-01-31 |access-date=2008-06-02 |archive-date=2007-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220623/https://www.ntsb.gov/info/AAL77_fdr.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>  In the recovery process at the Pentagon, remains of all five Flight&nbsp;77 hijackers were identified through a process of elimination, as not matching any [[DNA]] samples for the victims, and put into custody of the FBI. Forensics teams confirmed that it seemed two of the hijackers were brothers, based on their DNA similarities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-of-9-sept-11-hijackers-held/ |title=Remains Of 9 Sept. 11 Hijackers Held |date=2002-08-17 |publisher=CBS News |access-date=2008-09-30 |archive-date=2008-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930021707/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/17/attack/main519033.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/strbase/pub_pres/Edson2004.pdf |title=Naming the Dead - Confronting the Realities of Rapid Identification of Degraded Skeletal Remains |author=Edson, S.M.|journal=Forensic Science Review |volume=16 |date=January 2004 |access-date=2008-09-30 | issue=1|pages=63–90 |pmid=26256813 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>