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A two-year-old girl boarded a morning flight to Los Angeles. She never arrived

A two-year-old girl boarded a morning flight to Los Angeles. She never arrived

A routine family trip turned into one of the most shocking disruptions of a clear September morning: a two-and-a-half-year-old named Christine Hanson boarded United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston at 7:58 AM with her parents and never reached Los Angeles. How did five men pass through security with four-inch knives and take control of a less-than-one-third-full Boeing 767 while no distress call was made from the cockpit?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from boarding at Logan Airport through the final radio…

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