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United Airlines Flight 175 is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

United Airlines Flight 175 has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 4, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
April 18, 2023	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 11, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that after being hijacked, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had two mid-air collisions with other aircraft before crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center (pictured)?

Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

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Section sizes

Section size for United Airlines Flight 175 (18 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,396	6,396
Background	15	3,668
Attacks	1,594	1,594
Hijackers	2,059	2,059
Flight	4,682	11,726
Boarding	7,044	7,044
Hijacking	1,874	9,836
Near misses	2,712	2,712
Calls	5,250	5,250
Crash	19,547	19,547
Aftermath	12,486	12,486
Gallery	607	607
See also	277	277
References	15	4,006
Notes	28	28
Citations	31	31
Sources	3,932	3,932
External links	2,549	2,549
Total	71,098	71,098