Call Placed from Payphone at Boston’s Logan Airport to 9/11 Hijacker Atta’s Cell Phone

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A three-minute call is made from a payphone at Boston's Logan Airport, in the gate area from where Flight 175 will later depart, to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta's cell phone. The 9/11 Commission will report, "We presume Shehhi [i.e., hijacker Marwan Alshehhi] made the call, but we cannot be sure." According to the commission, this is Atta and Alshehhi's final conversation. (9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 1, 451; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 4)

According to other reports, though, they later speak again briefly by cellphone while waiting for their planes to take off (see (Before 7:59 a.m.) September 11, 2001). (van Natta, and Zernike 11/4/2001; Elliot 8/4/2002)