Displaying items by tag: Flight 77
Wednesday, 11 August 2021 23:10
Five of the hijackers lived in a motel right outside the gates of the NSA at Fort Meade.
Nineteen men armed only with box-cutters and their fanaticism successfully hatched a plot totally unnoticed by America's $40bn a year intelligence-gathering machine.
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The Pentagon
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Wednesday, 11 August 2021 23:05
Alleged Hijackers may have trained at U.S. Bases.
U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in Tuesday's terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s.
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Before 9/11
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Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:23
30 minute gap between when the FAA determined Flight 77 had been hijacked and when it formally told this to NORAD.
By Paul Thompson of History Commons.
Flight 77 took off from Dulles International Airport near Washington at 8:20, ten minutes after the scheduled departure time. [8:20, CNN, 9/17/01, Guardian, 10/17/01] Its last routine radio communication was made 51 seconds after 8:50, and then it failed to respond to a routine instruction.
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9/11
