The Saudi national prepared more carefully for his role than did the other pilots, familiarizing himself with the air traffic out of Dulles airport.
Hani Hanjour used a computer for more than an hour at Kinko's in College Park, Maryland, on, researching flights and communicating with friends and relatives in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi national had checked into the nearby College Park Motel on August 6, traveling with one of his musclemen. He took a check ride with flight instructors at Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland, on the 9th.
Saudi citizen Hani Hanjour, the last of the pilots to arrive in the United States, and the only Saudi among the four pilots, first came to the United States in October 1991 and enrolled in English language school in Tucson. In 1996, he returned to pursue flight training, completing language training in Oakland, California, before moving to Arizona where he obtained his pilot's license in 1999. Hanjour returned to Saudi Arabia but couldn't get a job with any commercial airline.
After failing to secure employment in late 1999, Hanjour traveled to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda. His pilot and English language skills were immediately identified, as was his Saudi citizenship, and he was asked to join three other pilots to prepare for the planes operation and the 9/11 attacks. The other three arrived in the U.S. in June 2000, and in December, Hanjour arrived at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, continuing on to San Diego where he picked up Nawaf al-Hazmi—the orphaned muscleman who had been abandoned by Khalid al-Mihdhar. The two drove to Mesa, Arizona, where Hanjour took flight lessons to renew his certification, practicing handling the controls of large commercial airliners.
Hani Hanjour familiarized himself with D.C. airspace before piloting a hijacked commercial jet into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.His certification renewed, in April 2001, Hanjour and al-Hazmi moved to Northern Virginia, then to New Jersey, and then finally to Maryland. At each location, Hanjour continued flight training. By August 10, he knew that his flight would be leaving from Dulles International Airport.
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