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"...and this is the part which is confounding me ... how do you as the terrorist
have the level of sophistication to take over the controls of a sophisticated
airliner jet plane to be able to fly accurately into targets like hitting dead center
into the Pentagon which is a low building?"
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Hani Hanjour:
9/11 Pilot Extraordinaire
From the ridiculous to the sublime...
Federal Aviation Administration records show [Hanjour] obtained a commercial pilot's license in April
1999, but how and where he did so remains a lingering question that FAA officials refuse to discuss.
His limited flying abilities do afford an insight into one feature of the attacks: The conspiracy
apparently did not include a surplus of skilled pilots. [Cape Cod Times]
[Flight Academy] Staff members characterized Mr. Hanjour as polite, meek and very quiet. But most
of all, the former employee said, they considered him a very bad pilot. "I'm still to this day amazed that
he could have flown into the Pentagon," the former employee said. "He could not fly at all." [New
York Times]

Hani Hanjour as a Cessna 172 pilot

Cockpit of a Cessna 172

At Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., 20 miles west of Washington, flight instructor Sheri Baxter
instantly recognized the name of alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour when the FBI released a list of 19
suspects in the four hijackings. Hanjour, the only suspect on Flight 77 the FBI listed as a pilot,
had come to the airport one month earlier seeking to rent a small plane.

However, when Baxter and fellow instructor Ben Conner took the slender, soft-spoken Hanjour on
three test runs during the second week of August, they found he had trouble controlling and
landing the single-engine Cessna 172. Even though Hanjour showed a federal pilot's license and a
log book cataloging 600 hours of flying experience, chief flight instructor Marcel Bernard
declined to rent him a plane without more lessons.

In the spring of 2000, Hanjour had asked to enroll in the CRM Airline Training Center in Scottsdale,
Ariz., for advanced training, said the center's attorney, Gerald Chilton Jr. Hanjour had attended the
school for three months in late 1996 and again in December 1997 but never finished coursework for a
license to fly a single-engine aircraft, Chilton said.

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When Hanjour reapplied to the center last year, "We declined to provide training to him because
we didn't think he was a good enough student when he was there in 1996 and 1997" Chilton
said. [Newsday]

"This guy could not solo a Cessna 150 ... and what I mean by solo is a
pilot's first time out without anyone in the cockpit with him. It's the most
simple, the most fundamental flying exercise one can engage in..."
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Outline of the 9/11 Plot
[Excerpt]
On December 12, 2000, [Nawaf al Hazmi and Hani Hanjour] were settling in Mesa, Arizona, and
Hanjour was ready to brush up on his flight training [Brush up? He could barely fly a Cessna]. By
early 2001, he was using a Boeing 737 simulator. Because his performance struck his flight instructors
as sub-standard, they discouraged Hanjour from continuing, but he persisted.
After wisely investing $40 Hanjour produced the following miraculous results on 9/11:

Hani Hanjour as a Boeing 757 pilot

Cockpit of a Boeing 757

At a speed of about 500 miles an hour, the plane was headed straight for what is known as P-56,
protected air space 56, which covers the White House and the Capitol.

"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us
experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in
that manner. It's unsafe." [NATCA]
But just as the plane seemed to be on a suicide mission into the White House, the unidentified pilot
[Hanjour] executed a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver. The plane
circled 270 degrees to the right to approach the Pentagon from the west, whereupon Flight 77 fell
below radar level, vanishing from controllers' screens, the sources said.
Less than an hour after two other jets demolished the World
Trade Center in Manhattan, Flight 77 carved a hole in the nation's

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defense headquarters, a hole five stories high and 200 feet wide.
Aviation sources said the plane was flown with extraordinary skill,
making it highly likely that a trained pilot was at the helm, possibly
one of the hijackers. Someone even knew how to turn off the
transponder, a move that is considerably less than obvious.
[Washington Post]

"For a guy to just jump into the cockpit and fly like an ace is impossible there is not one chance
in a thousand," said [ex-commercial pilot Russ] Wittenberg, recalling that when he made the jump
from Boeing 727s to the highly sophisticated computerized characteristics of the 737s through
767s it took him considerable time to feel comfortable flying. [LewisNews]

Is it pure coincidence that the above mentioned "fighter jet maneuver" steered Flight 77 into a
barely habited newly reinforced section of the Pentagon? Why didn't the USAF intervene in the
aerial acrobatics of Flight 77?

On 27 November 2009 PilotsFor911Truth.org published a simple fact about the flight of Flight 77
which makes a conventional hijacking scenario impossible - according to Flight Data provided by the
NTSB the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight. The status of the door was polled every 5
seconds from 12:18:05 GMT to 13:37:09 GMT, and each poll logged the door as closed (a CSV file
of the log can be downloaded here).
No-one entered the cockpit of the plane during the flight, therefore it was not flown into the
Pentagon by an Arab hijacker.
What caused Flight 77 to hit the Pentagon? Electronic hijacking is a strong possibility...

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was

founded in 1997. The group's Statement of Principles [PDF]
published September 2000 stated that "some catastrophic and
catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would advance their
policies.
Dov Zakheim is a co-author of the Statement of Principles and an
ex-CEO of System Planning Corporation which manufactures
equipment to remotely pilot aircraft. Zakheim was appointed as
Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon by
President Bush on May 4, 2001. The Mastermind Behind 9/11?

The hit on the Pentagon:

The steep turn [of Flight 77] was so smooth, the sources say, it's clear there was no fight for control
going on. [CBS News]
The above is contradicted by this eyewitness recollection of the day's events...
William Middleton Sr. was running his street sweeper through the cemetery when he heard a harsh
whistling sound overhead. Middleton looked up and spotted a commercial jet [Flight 77] whose
pilot seemed to be fighting with his own craft. [SouthCoast Today]

If the pilot was wrestling with the plane's controls then it would not fly straight, but if the
plane was 'electronically hijacked' his actions would be irrelevant.
The following documents a remote controlled test flight in 1984...

On the morning of December 1, 1984, a remotely controlled Boeing 720 transport took off from
Edwards Air Force Base (Edwards, California), made a left-hand departure and climbed to an
altitude of 2300 feet. ... The aircraft was remotely flown by NASA research pilot Fitzhugh (Fitz)
Fulton from the NASA Dryden Remotely Controlled Vehicle Facility.
Previously, the Boeing 720 had been flown on 14 practice flights with safety pilots onboard.
During the 14 flights, there were 16 hours and 22 minutes of remotely piloted vehicle control,
including 10 remotely piloted takeoffs, 69 remotely piloted vehicle controlled approaches, and 13

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 remotely piloted vehicle landings on abort runway.
It was planned that the aircraft would
land wings-level and exactly on the
centerline during the [Controlled Impact
Demonstration], thus allowing the
fuselage to remain intact as the wings
were sliced open by eight posts
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cemented into the runway.
The Boeing 720 landed askew... [NASA] In the above photograph the B-720 is seen during the
moments of initial impact. The left wing is digging into the lakebed while the aircraft continues
sliding towards wing openers. [NASA]

The above brings up a question about the Pentagon impact. How could a first time flyer who
"could not fly at all" fly faster and more precisely than a NASA research pilot who'd had
numerous practice flights at his objective?

"I don't know ... if perhaps some type of navigating system or some type of
electronics would put two planes into the World Trade Center..."
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See also:
Leading GPS Software Suggests Superior Augmented GPS Service At WTC During 9/11 Attacks
Interview With Huffman Aviation Casts Doubt on Official Story
The Enemy is Inside the Gates
The Pod People and the Plane That Crashed Into the Pentagon
7 of the 19 Hijackers Are Still Alive

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