Acrylic frame assemblage displaying an American Airlines travel jacket containing a travel itinerary, four baggage claim stickers, and a business card stapled to the travel jacket. A ticket receipt and upgrade certificate are tucked into the jacket sleeve. 

The contents of the travel jacket are issued to Merrick (formerly Cariaga-McMahon) for two flights, one dated September 4, 2001 for American Airlines Flight 4 from Los Angeles to New York. The second flight is dated September 11, 2001 for American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles. 

Mounted on the right side of the assemblage is an invoice from Tzell Travel Specialists dated August 31, 2001 and issued to Cheeba Sound, Attention: Merrick Cariaga-McMahon. The invoice lists the two flights including the September 11, 2001 American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles. 

In fall 2001, Merrick Siebenaler (formerly Cariaga-McMahon) was living in Los Angeles, California and working for Cheeba Sound, a music record sublabel of Virgin Records America. Early that September, Siebenaler received an assignment to accompany a Cheeba Sound artist, American pop-blues singer Nikka Costa, on an advance trip to the MTV Video Music Awards, scheduled for September 6 in New York City. The travel agency, Tzell, booked Siebenaler’s round-trip flights. After the awards event in New York, Siebenaler intended to meet up with friends in Boston before flying home to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning September 11, taking American Airlines outbound Flight 11. However, inclement flying weather obliged him to return to Los Angeles sooner than expected, delivering Siebenaler back to California from New York mere hours before the hijacking of the transcontinental flight on which he’d originally been booked.

In remembrance of the historic day and as a testament to his own chance circumstances, Siebenaler retained his original travel jacket including his flight itinerary and travel agency invoice confirming his reservation on the ill-fated Flight 11. Days later, he had them professionally mounted in an acrylic frame by a company in West Los Angeles that had previously framed music albums and vinyl discs for Cheeba. For years, Siebenaler kept the assemblage of items in his home until donating them to the 9/11 Museum in 2024.