Template:(Between 5:45 a.m. and 5:53 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Two Hijackers Caught on Video

(Between 5:45 a.m. and 5:53 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Two Hijackers Caught on Video as They Board a Flight to Boston; Footage Shows Two Times
Minutes after arriving at the Portland International Jetport, hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari pass through the airport’s single security checkpoint, on the way to boarding their 6 a.m. flight to Boston. The checkpoint has a surveillance camera pointing at it, which captures them as they go through. [TIME, 9/24/2001;

Some reports say the pair passes through at 5:53 a.m. Other reports put it earlier, at 5:45 a.m.  Strangely, when stills from the surveillance camera are later publicly released, they show two time stamps, one of 5:45 and another of 5:53. When they’d checked in just minutes earlier, Atta and Alomari were observed wearing ties and jackets. But in the security video footage, they have just open-necked shirts, with no jackets or ties.