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9/11 An Airline Pilot's Perspective
Paperback
21st Century United States History
ISBN13: 9781537023373
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 24 2016
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Does fate, coincidence, or divine intervention steer us to the major events in our lives? Even as a little boy, I had always wanted to fly. My earliest dreams were about flying like Superman, jetting around just using my arms as wings. I eventually got a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, and the USAF taught me how to fly airplanes. Later, at the airlines, I became a Captain, occupying the left seat. I had created my dream job.
On 9/11, I could have been piloting a transcon flying trip, most likely including a trip from Boston to Los Angeles, or from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles. The 9/11 terrorist hijackings were my routes and my aircraft, the Boeing 757 and 767. The terrorists could have chosen one of my flights. Instead, I was on vacation with my family, standing across the street from the White House when the attacks took place. We felt and heard American Airlines Flight 77 as it crashed into the Pentagon, forever changing my perspective.
Less than one month after flying was resumed following 9/11, a deranged passenger broke down my cockpit door with the intent to kill the terrorist pilots he thought were flying the airplane. While attempting to land, I later found out we were almost shot down by two F-16's. This is my story, but what about 9/11 itself? How could it have happened in the first place? On our soil? How could this happen to the most powerful country the world has ever known? To the country with its intelligence community, with its military, with our decades of combating adversaries around the world? We were sitting ducks! Was 9/11 a hoax? Was 9/11 a government conspiracy like some think the moon landings were faked by the U.S. government?
Seen through the prism of the 9/11 Commission findings, we can examine the failures of the intelligence community, the military, the lack of a clear government policy, and the mismanagement of the policies that were in place, all of which led to the 9/11 attacks. Will another 9/11 happen again? Have we learned the hard lessons to insure that it will not happen again?
This book answers these critical questions and offers my perspective of 9/11 from a pilot's point of view.
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