Bowie Flight School Recalls Training 9/11 Hijacker

BOWIE, Md. -- Small planes buzz low over Route 50 towards the landing strip of Freeway Airport, where a decade ago a hijacker sharpened his flying skills before piloting American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
The visits by Hani Hanjour brought notoriety to this small airport -- one of several locations frequented by the hijackers in Maryland.
Hanjour was only interested in learning how to steer the plane, not takeoff or land, said Joe Gauvreau, a flight instructor at the airport.
"His attitude was so bad that one of the instructors who flew with him said he wouldn't fly with anymore," he said.
The government banned flights from the airport for six months following the attacks. Life has since returned to normal for pilots at the airport. Tighter restrictions governing airspace around Washington, D.C., limited where pilots who use this airport can fly.

[@quanthebronxny3996]

Hani Hanjour was a HORRIBLE pilot. Of Cessna 172 at that. That's the fucking training wheels of aircraft

[@polotiks-wx]

He litter flew the 757 in hard turns and had no idea what he was doing

[@bellamafiaquackafellarecor7770]

@@polotiks-wx The plane descended 8000 feet in a 270 degree turn, coming level with the ground at 530 mph. Hanjour couldn’t even perform basic maneuvers in a Cessna, 1 month before 9/11. Wake up

[@mikebyrd8278]

Conspiracy BS

[@titanicbigship]

@@mikebyrd8278but he can’t they sead in the records

[@mikebyrd8278]

@@titanicbigship I don't know what that's supposed to mean

[@joeysbestfriend2614]

Nothing adds up

[@joaoyapur1247]

so you learn to pilot one of those cesna or whatever small planes and with that you can get on a commercial airplane and crash it wherever you want...yeah,

[@kirkrintoul328]

Crashing a plane doesn't take that much skill.

[@chriswalker143]

It’s really easy

[@paulorocky]

@@kirkrintoul328 but they didn't crash it stupidly, they flew it into a building with pinpoint accuracy. I suspect the pilot hijackers had more flying experience than what has been revealed to the public.

[@kirkrintoul328]

@@paulorocky you have no way of knowing if it was "pinpoint accuracy" unless you knew how they planned to hit the building. The Pentagon is one of the largest office buildings in the world. All they had to do was hit it and they did.

[@shufflex3360]

@@paulorocky notice one thing dat the building was much wider than the planes......so it wouldnot take so much effort to hit.......
also one thing is that alshehi almost missed the hit. He hit the south tower at the right outer side, small mistake and half of the plane on ground

[@braindrain8922]

BOEING UNINTERUPTABLE AUTOPILOT

[@mikebyrd8278]

Didn't come out until 2006