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...plane. Once there, they turned off the aircraft's self-identifying beacons known as transponders, a move which renders the planes somewhat less visible to air traffic controllers. And each aircraft performed dramatic but carefully executed course corrections, including a stunning last maneuver by flight 77. The pilot of that plane came in low from the south of the Pentagon and pulled a 270-degree turn before slamming into the west wall of the building...
...than 12 hours after the attacks, US officials told TIME that their sense that he was involved had gotten closer to what one senior official said was 90 percent. The next morning, US officials told TIME they have evidence that each of the four terrorist teams had a certified pilot with them, some of whom had flown for Saudi Airlines. It?s not yet clear whether the pilots were trained in the US, or in Saudi Arabia or both. Intelligence officials believe each team had four to five persons. Some team members, it is thought by US intelligence, crossed...
...Taliban hosts rushed to express their condolences to the U.S. and proclaim their Saudi guest incapable of an attack of such sophistication. But it is precisely the level of training and investment in an operation that required men to simultaneously hijack four planes in different cities and skillfully pilot and navigate them to their targets that makes Bin Laden a prime suspect. The attack appears to have been beyond the known capability of the Palestinian terrorist groups whose supporters took to the streets Tuesday to celebrate the gruesome event...
MBTA officials said that buses were chosen for the pilot program to avoid the much larger costs of running the T for even a single additional hour...
Ridership on the Night Owl buses will be monitored during the pilot program and the Night Owl program is seen as the litmus test on whether late-night public transportation will be economically viable in Boston. Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Kevin J. Sullivan said that the objective of the pilot program was “not looking for ways to pull the plug,” but rather to gauge demand...