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No, HE Couldn't Fly Either
George
Washington's Blog
Wednesday November 28, 2007
The fact that Hani Hanjour -- the alleged pilot of the
Boeing airplane which crashed into the Pentagon -- could
not fly at all is now being challenged by apparent
CIA informant Louai al-Sakka, who says that it was actually
Nawaf al-Hazmi who piloted the plane. Al-Sakka explains that al-Hamzi
was a "a veteran operative".
However, al-Hamzi was also a terrible pilot.
According to the New
York Times, al-Hamzi's flight instructor, Rick Garza, said:
''They had zero training before they got here, so I told them they had
to learn a lot of other things first,'' Mr. Garza said.
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Mr. Garza said that their aptitude for flying was poor from the
start, and that it never improved.
''It was like Dumb and Dumber,'' Mr. Garza said. ''I mean, they
were clueless. It was clear to me they weren't going to make it as pilots.''
Similarly, according to the CBC:
The two men [Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi] signed up for lessons
at a local flight school, but they were completely lacking in natural
abilities. After a few sessions their instructor, Rick Garza, told them
there was just no point in continuing, "They seemed to have a very
strong interest in flying larger aircraft and that's when they brought
up the subject of flying Boeings. 'Where can we learn to fly Boeings?'
I just kind of chuckled a little bit and said -'It's a long road before
you get to Boeings. Several years from now, but you have to start out
in a smaller aircraft. If you can't fly the little four-seat aircraft,
there is no way you are going to be able to fly a Boeing.'"
The two men reported back to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that learning to
fly was a lot more difficult than expected. He was surprised, "Bin
Laden and I never considered whether any special skills or talents were
needed to pilot an aircraft. We thought that learning to fly an airplane
was much like learning to drive a car; it was easily accomplished with
the correct instruction. It was a mistake in judgment."
So the official story cannot be rescued by this "new" information
from a CIA operative.
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