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Hunter S. Thompson: You sort of wonder when something like that happens, well, who stands to benefit? Who had the opportunity and motive? You just gotta look at these basic things. I don’t assume that I know the truth of what went on that day, and yeah I just look around and see who had the motive, who had the opportunity, and who had the equipment, who had the will.
Hunter S. Thompson: I’ve spent enough time on the inside, and in the White House, and a bit on campaigns, and I’ve known enough other people who do these things, to know that the public version of the news, of an event, is never accurate, and these people, I think, are willing to take that even further. Reporter: It seems a very long shot to me, but are you sort of suggesting that this works in favor of the Bush administration?
Hunter S. Thompson: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DYLAN AVERY
“Here we’re talking about plastic knives, and using an American Airlines
flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this
building, and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.”
9:38, Arlington, Virginia: Hani Hanjour, allegedly executes a 330 degree turn, at 530 miles per hour, descending 7,000 feet in 2-1/2 minutes to crash American Airlines, Flight 77, into the ground floor of the Pentagon.
“[Flight 77] could not possibly have flown at those speeds which they
said it did without going into a high speed stall. The airplane won’t go
that fast when you start pulling those high G maneuvers. That plane
would have fallen out of the sky …”
Its final approach took it directly across Washington Boulevard, knocking light poles out of the ground, and bouncing off of the lawn before impact.
First, let’s meet Hani Hanjour. Hanjour had come to Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland, one month earlier seeking to rent a small plane.
However, when Hanjour went on three test runs in the second week of August, he had trouble controlling and landing a single engine Cessna 172.
Marcel Bernard: My name is Marcel Bernard, and I’m the chief flight instructor here at Freeway. Hani Hanjour. Well, basically what happened with him is he showed up at the Airport and wanted to get checked out in the aircraft. See, he was already certified. He didn’t come to us for flight training. Yeah, he already had a pilot’s license. Marcel Bernard: He had already earned his private instrument commercial at a school in Arizona. I don’t remember the name of the school, but he already had certificates in hand, and we sometimes, occasionally we have pilots who come to us who don’t want flight training but just want to rent our aircraft. Which is the case of Hani Hanjour. Marcel Bernard: Which is the case with Hani. He wanted to get checked out, as we call it, to rent our aircraft. And our insurance requires that he flies with one of our instructors to be found competent to rent. And that was the process that he was going through. The consensus was that he was very quiet, average or below-average piloting skills, English was very poor, so that’s about the best description I can give you for his demeanor. Very uneventful from my perspective.
“The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought
… all of us experienced air-traffic controllers, that it was a military
plane.” Regardless, air traffic controllers at Dulles International Airport that
were tracking Flight 77, all thought that it was a military plane. Second, the light poles. PLANE CRASH KILLS 3; WAS TO PICK UP EX-PRESIDENT BUSH, by CNN
On November 22, 2004, a private jet, on route to Houston, to pick up George Bush, Sr., clipped a single light pole and crashed a minute away from landing at Houston’s hobby airport.
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