на американцев всегда можно положиться в том, что они обязательно найдут правильное решение, но только после того как испробуют все остальные.

Hazmi and Mihdhar came to the United States to learn English, take flying lessons, and become pilots as quickly as possible.They turned out, however, to have no aptitude for English.Even with help and tutoring from Mohdar Abdul=lah and other bilingual friends, Hazmi and Mihdhar’s efforts to learn proved futile.This lack of language skills in turn became an insurmountable barrier to learning how to fly.36
A pilot they consulted at one school, the Sorbi Flying Club in San Diego, spoke Arabic. He explained to them that their flight instruction would begin with small planes.Hazmi and Mihdhar emphasized their interest in learning to fly jets,Boeing aircraft in particular,and asked where they might enroll to train on jets right away.Convinced that the two were either joking or dreaming,the pilot responded that no such school existed. Other instructors who worked with Hazmi and Mihdhar remember them as poor students who focused on learning to control the aircraft in flight but took no interest in takeoffs or land=ings. By the end of May 2000, Hazmi and Mihdhar had given up on learning how to fly.37 ...
Atta and Shehhi had not settled on where they would obtain their flight training. In contrast, Ziad Jarrah had already arranged to attend the Florida Flight Training Center (FFTC) inVenice,Florida.Jarrah arrived in Newark on June 27 and then flew toVenice.He immediately began the private pilot pro-gram at FFTC, intending to get a multi-engine license. Jarrah moved in with some of the flight instructors affiliated with his school and bought a car.46
While Jarrah quickly settled into training in Florida,Atta and Shehhi kept searching for a flight school.After visiting the Airman Flight School in Nor-man,Oklahoma (where Zacarias Moussaoui would enroll several months later and where another al Qaeda operative, Ihab Ali, had taken lessons in the mid=1990s),Atta started flight instruction at Huffman Aviation in Venice,Florida, and both Atta and Shehhi subsequently enrolled in the Accelerated Pilot Pro-gram at that school. By the end of July, both of them took solo flights, and by mid-August they passed the private pilot airman test.They trained through the summer at Huffman, while Jarrah continued his training at FFTC.47
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In 1996, Hanjour returned to the United States to pursue flight training, after being rejected by a Saudi flight school. He checked out flight schools in Florida, California, and Arizona; and he briefly started at a couple of them before returning to Saudi Arabia. In 1997, he returned to Florida and then, along with two friends,went back to Arizona and began his flight training there in earnest.After about three months, Hanjour was able to obtain his private pilot’s license.Several more months of training yielded him a commercial pilot certificate,issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in April 1999. He then returned to Saudi Arabia.56
Hanjour reportedly applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah after returning home, but was rejected. He stayed home for a while and then told his family he was going to the United Arab Emirates to work for an airline. Where Hanjour actually traveled during this time period is unknown.It is pos=sible he went to the training camps in Afghanistan.57
The fact that Hanjour spent so much time in Arizona may be significant.A number of important al Qaeda figures attended the University of Arizona in Tucson or lived in Tucson in the 1980s and early 1990s.58 Some of Hanjour’s known Arizona associates from the time of his flight training in the late 1990s have also raised suspicion.59FBI investigators have speculated that al Qaeda may have directed other extremist Muslims in the Phoenix area to enroll in avia=tion training.
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Moussaoui had been taking flight lessons at the Airman Flight School in Norman,Oklahoma,since February but stopped in late May.Although at that point he had only about 50 hours of flight time and no solo flights to his credit, Moussaoui began making inquiries about flight materials and simulator train=ing for Boeing 747s. On July 10, he put down a $1,500 deposit for flight sim=ulator training at Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota, and by the end of the month,he had received a simulator schedule to train from August 13 through August 20. Moussaoui also purchased two knives and inquired of two manufacturers of GPS equipment whether their products could be converted for aeronautical use—activities that closely resembled those of the 9/11 hijackers during their final preparations for the attacks.
On August 10,shortly after getting the money from Binalshibh,Moussaoui left Oklahoma with a friend and drove to Minnesota.Three days later, Mous=saoui paid the $6,800 balance owed for his flight simulator training at Pan Am in cash and began his training. His conduct, however, raised the suspicions of his flight instructor. It was unusual for a student with so little training to be learning to fly large jets without any intention of obtaining a pilot’s license or other goal.On August 16,once the instructor reported his suspicion to the authorities, Moussaoui was arrested by the INS on immigration charges.159
KSM denies ever considering Moussaoui for the planes operation. Instead he claims that Moussaoui was slated to participate in a “second wave”of attacks. KSM also states that Moussaoui had no contact with Atta, and we are unaware of evidence contradicting this assertion.160
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