Air steward believes her plane was intended to be FIFTH 9/11 terrorist jet trends now
An air steward working on a flight waiting to take off on 9/11 told FBI investigators there were six suspicious people on her plane, and believes her jet was intended as a fifth plane in the terror attack.
Sandy Thorngren was a flight attendant on United 23, which was on the tarmac at New York's JFK airport on the morning of 9/11, lined up to take off at 9am. The plane was called back to the gate after the second tower of the World Trade Center was hit at 9:03am.
'The day after we were all called by the FBI telling us that they needed to interview us regarding the incident of what had happened on the airplane,' Thorngren told "TMZ INVESTIGATES: 9/11: THE FIFTH PLANE, which airs on Monday at 9pm ET on Fox.
'They came to our hotel rooms and individually talked to us. I did tell them that I felt there were some suspicious people on the airplane.
'And I pointed out exactly the four people in first class and two gentlemen in business. And the one that had the t-shirt on that had uncontrollable perspiration.'
United 23 did not feature in the official report of the 9/11 Commission, and there were never any confirmed arrests of those on board. U.S. officials have not commented on the years of speculation about the flight being a possible fifth plane planned for attack.
Sandy Thorngren, a flight attendant on United 23, said she told the FBI that there were six suspicious passengers onboard the plane
The World Trade Center towers are seen billowing with smoke on September 11, 2001, after the second plane hit at 9:03am
September 11, 2001, remains the deadliest terrorist attacks in American history, and saw 2,977 people killed in four separate attacks.
Four planes crashed that morning.
American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Boston bound for LA, and crashes into the World Trade Center's North Tower at 8:46am.
United Airlines Flight 175 also took off from Boston, 15 minutes after the AA flight, heading for LA: it crashed into the WTC's South Tower at 9:03am.
At this point, United 23 was on the tarmac, and told to return to the gate.
At 9:37am, American Airlines Flight 77, which had taken off from Washington DC, crashed into the Pentagon.
And finally, at 10:02am, United Flight 93, which had taken off from Newark bound for San Francisco, was downed in a field in Pennsylvania. Analysts now believe the hijackers were aiming for the White House or Capitol.
Thorngren, a flight attendant on United 23, told filmmakers: 'I definitely think Flight 23 was the fifth plane.'
She said that,
