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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...
They evidently arrived in Boston the previous Sunday, drove back to Portland and then flew again to Boston. But this would have increased their exposure to airline security, which they had to clear once in Portland and again in Boston, since US Airways and American Airlines operate from opposite ends of the terminal. Yet, says Chitwood, "if these guys carried out this attack the way they did, they had a reason to be up here, but who the hell knows what...
...company called CarSharing Portland first introduced America to the shared-car concept. Last month it was bought by Seattle-based Flexcar, which wants to open in 30 cities over the next five years...
Officials confirmed yesterday that two of the suspected hijackers flew to Boston from Portland, leaving behind a rental car with Massachusetts plates. However, it remained unclear how the suspects passed through Logan security, and officials adamantly refused to discuss details of the investigation...
...There are many security issues the airports can adopt," says Dr. Richard Gritta, a professor at the Dr. Robert Pamplin School of Business Administration at the University of Portland, Oregon, and an expert on the airline industry. "Everyone will be very amenable in the short term. The question is whether the airports will stick with those measures in the long-term, when the shock of the attacks wears...