9/11 Flight Crew Believes Their Plane Would’ve Been the 5th to Be Hijacked: ‘There Was No Doubt’

A documentary recounting the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, points to a fifth airplane possibly being hijacked that fateful day in American history.

According to a TMZ report published Friday, September 11 — the attack’s 25th anniversary — their documentary TMZ Investigates 9/11: The Fifth Plane investigates whether or not United Flight 23 would’ve been involved in the attacks.

In the documentary, which was previously released on YouTube, United Flight 23 crew members documented what they saw that day. Before the flight was able to take off, they claim that four people — who crew members felt acted suspiciously — sat in first class and were anxious to get off the ground.

“In my mind, there was no doubt that we were a target of a plan that would have taken us to our end,” said flight attendant Barbara Brockie Smaldino.

“The people that were in first class, they wanted to take off,” recalled flight attendant Sandy Thorngren. “They didn’t want to eat.”

However, United Flight 23 — which was scheduled to take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport at 9 a.m. and fly to Los Angeles — never left the airport because the crew learned that the United States was under attack.

Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda hijacked multiple airplanes and attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that morning. A fourth plane — which officials believe was intended to hit the White House, per CNN — crashed in a field in Pennsylvania during a passenger revolt. The attacks killed 2,977 people and injured thousands more. It is the deadliest terrorist attack in history.

“They open the door to let everybody out, and as I’m handing out jackets to passengers in the business class, one passenger asked me, ‘Did they get the White House?'” recalled Thorngren. “I said, ‘I would have no idea.'”

There was also a person on the plane who allegedly asked the purser on the flight if he could show his young son the cockpit of the plane.

More unusual activity that allegedly took place on United Flight 23 is discussed in the YouTube documentary, which also insinuates that there may have been a cover-up that took place to not let the public know there could’ve been a “fifth” flight on 9/11.

A voiceover in the documentary states that the FBI left questions unanswered, adding: “We have requested information about Flight 23. We even filed a Freedom of Information request. We did not get a reply.”

Remembrance and commemoration events are held this year to mark 25 years since the attacks.