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. 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]
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[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 "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.
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| 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... |
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