Captain Steeeve Was Scheduled To Fly Flight 11 On 911 Here Is What Happened

On September 10, 2001, American Airlines First Officer Steve Scheibner packed his bag, put his name on the schedule, and waited for the call confirming his assignment to fly Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles the next morning. The call never came. A more senior pilot claimed the trip in the final 30-minute window. The man who took his seat — First Officer Tom McGuinness — was hijacked and perished when Flight 11 became the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In this episode of the Max Afterburner Podcast, former F-15E Strike Eagle combat pilot and Thunderbirds demonstration pilot Ryan Bodenheimer sits down with Captain Steeeve — Navy P-3 Orion submarine hunter turned Boeing 777 American Airlines captain — for the full story of that day, what he saw on the airline's computer screen when he logged in that night, and how one scheduling change rewrote the rest of his life. Subscribe to Captain Steeeve at @CaptainSteeeve and follow the Max Afterburner Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.