Story from CNN.com

[Elwood]

From CNN.com :

"Knives and box cutters

Although officials said the attacks appeared to have been well planned and executed, a passenger on the plane that hit the Pentagon said in cell phone call to her husband that the terrorists were armed with knives and box cutters.

The passenger was Barbara Olson, a CNN commentator and wife of Solicitor General Theodore Olson.

Attorney General John Ashcroft has briefed members of Congress, telling them that the hijackers on the planes were working in groups of three to five members.

"We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts -- these crimes -- to justice," Ashcroft said.

American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members en route from Boston to Los Angeles, slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m.

About 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also en route from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers and nine crew members aboard, crashed into the south tower. The building exploded into flames and collapsed.

Hours later, fire caused another building, 7 World Trade Center, to collapse. It had been burning since shortly after the planes stuck the Twin Towers. Other nearby buildings are ablaze in the area.

A Boeing 757 jet plowed into the Pentagon at 9:45 a.m. Witnesses said the plane hit what is known as the "Army Corridor."

FBI sources said the aircraft was an American Airlines flight that had been hijacked after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles.

A fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco, crashed in a wooded area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Police said there were no survivors. There were 38 passengers, five flight attendants and two pilots.

"The plane is thoroughly disintegrated," Jim Marker of Somerset County's 911 Emergency Management Center told CNN. "There are no remains, no survivors.

Senior FBI sources said, "There is no doubt the planes [all four] were hijacked."

Intelligence sources told CNN there were indications of attempts to divert the United flight from Newark to crash at Camp David, Maryland, the presidential retreat. It is unclear how that plan may have been thwarted.

U.S. military officials said none of the planes were shot down by U.S. aircraft.

They did not know that specific plane was involved. Callers from two of the other hijack planes called on cell phones to say their planes had been hijacked. "

 

http://www.cnn.com/2001....p>There are some other good short articles on this page.  this is just one of a series on this page.  check it out.

[General Lee 01]

The news companies are reporting all the cell phone communications between all the flights.

On one of the planes, the hijackers (according to victim who locked himself in the lavatory) stabbed a flight attendant w the "weapons".

On one of the other flights, A flight attendant phoned the airline, told them they had been hi-jacked, and that the assailants killed the rest of the crew.