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They seemed to be in a rush to fly the big planes. Long before they were really ready, before they had the 1,000 or so hours any airline would demand of a future jet pilot, they invested in expensive time in a training device. The 727 full-motion simulator is a multimillion-dollar contraption that twists and bucks and turns on hydraulic pistons like a Disney ride. But the technology is good enough that airline pilots use simulators regularly to train for emergencies that are too dangerous to practice in a real plane: a double-engine failure...
Some of the future hijackers developed a connection with Portland, Maine, that investigators are still puzzling over. Getting to and from that city has become easier in the past few years as the big airlines have laid on small-jet routes to link it to Boston and other Northeastern hubs. The Portland airport still has just one security checkpoint, which has a surveillance camera pointed at it. On Tuesday, shortly before 6 a.m., the camera captured an image of Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari clearing security in the quiet airport for a US Airways flight to Boston. "In the photo...
...seat on board just before takeoff. Investigators deliberately set off 25 emergency-exit alarms, only to find almost half of them ignored. They accomplished all this, according to the Inspector General's findings, with apparent ease, "piggybacking employees through doors, riding unguarded elevators, walking through concourse doors, gates and jet-bridges...and cargo facilities unchallenged, and driving through unmanned vehicle gates." The massive amount of construction going on at the nation's airports, including two of last week's suspect ones, Logan Airport in Boston and Newark airport in New Jersey, also gives slews of unauthorized workers room for mischief...
Many families won't get anything back, the bodies of their kin already cremated by burning jet fuel and returned to earth and ash and dust. These families will hold a funeral with an empty...
...walked 20 blocks, past bloody survivors and jet parts, until he saw the street in front of the store. It was a mountain of detritus. He searched in vain, then called his voice mail. Guzman had left a message saying once again she was staying put, as instructed. "I lost all hope when I heard that," he says...