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Hani Hanjour couldn't hardly fly
Summary
Hani Hanjour, allegedly the pilot of Flight 77 into the Pentagon, was a notoriously bad pilot. Newsday reported that Freeway Airport in Bowie, MD, refused to rent a Cessna to the guy without more lessons after three test runs because he had trouble controlling and landing the single-engine plane. He was reported to the FAA five times by an Arizona flight school, because he was such a bad pilot they felt he should have his license revoked.
"Yet Hanjour...according to the official story, piloted a huge Boeing 757 in a 7,000-feet spiraling dive within two minutes, leveled the craft at tree-top level and smashed into the west wall of the Pentagon."
"Yet Hanjour...according to the official story, piloted a huge Boeing 757 in a 7,000-feet spiraling dive within two minutes, leveled the craft at tree-top level and smashed into the west wall of the Pentagon."
Source: Marrs, p. 24, and Griffin, p. 40-41
Analysis
Seems pretty miraculous that a guy who couldn't handle a Cessna could stun seasoned air traffic controllers with uncanny maneuvers like that. Would a guy like this even be trusted to try it? I have to admit that this one strikes me as really rather suspicious.
Bottom line, me, I give it:
Discussion
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Quotes
"When the theory about learning to fly this well at this puddle-jumper school began to lose ground, it was added that they received further training on a flight simulator. This is like saying you prepared your teenager for her first drive on I-40 at rush hour by buying her a video driving game."-- military expert Stan Goff
"He could not fly at all."
-- former employee of Hanjour's flight school
"I couldn't believe he had a commercial license of any kind with the skills that he had."
-- Peggy Chevrette, Arizona flight school manager
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1. tnt 11 Jan 2008 06:04:36 PM
Must have been another pilot.
2. john 11 Jan 2008 09:26:08 PM
Or remote control, or a missile.