Richard Miniter

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TRIGGERnometry · 9/11: The Full Story, 25 Years On with Richard Miniter · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

They needed planes that were gonna travel.

the full length of the continent of the United States, because they would have the most tons of fuel on board and therefore have the greatest explosive capacity.

So you wanted um

Aircraft that

were fully loaded, that were coming from airports that were had weak security procedures, and the ringleader, Muhammad Ata, flow out of a small airport.

in Maine and then changed planes to join a flight, I believe out of Logan.

I'm uh my memory is behaves on the

Uh, because they also thought that that flight uh would be easier for them to get into the system.

And the woman who

Gave him his ticket.

Testified that later that she thought he was a terrorist, but didn't want to discriminate against him or be unwelcoming.

So they knew this factor as well.

They took advantage of existing American weaknesses to exploit a system that they wanted to destroy.

Right.

Not all of them went to pilot school.

Very few did.

So there was at least two muscle on the plane.

They were meant to control the passengers.

And then there was a pilot and a co pilot who had received some pilot training.

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