September 12, 2019

RFT 325: Failure of Imagination

7 minutes

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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By Captain George Nolly

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September 12, 2019

7 minutes

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