RFT 325: Failure of Imagination
Prior to 9/11, instructions to airline flight crews were to "comply with hijacker demands".
- Secretary Rice: “I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile”
- 1972: Southern Airways Flt 49 threatened to crash into Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 1974: S. Byck attempted to hijack Delta DC-9 to crash it into White House
- 1993: Iran training pilots to fly into buildings
- 1994: Air France Flt 8969
- 1994: FedEx Flt 705
- 1994: Terror 2000
- 1995: Bojinka plot included crashing planes into Sears Tower, Transamerica Bldg, WTC, John Hancock Tower, U.S. Congress, White House
- 1996: Ethiopian Airlines Flt 961
- 1996: Chechen rebel threatened crash into Kremlin
- 1998: Kaplanicar (Turkish) attempt to crash airplane into tomb of Attaturk
- 1999: MI6 warned of suicide attack
- 1999: Research Div. of L.O.C warned of airplane attacks
- 1999: Keynote address at NDU warned of UAV attacks on buildings
- 2000: Security consultant warned “most serious threat to WTC was someone flying a plane into it”
- March, 2001: The Lone Gunmen – hijacked B-727 flown into WTC
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