The Senate’s betrayal -/AFP/Getty Images Khalid Sheikh Mohammed In November of 2002, my two brothers and I traveled to FBI offices in Alexandria, Virginia and met with one of the lead federal prosecutors who was working on the criminal investigation of the 9/11 attacks. We were there to watch a video animation of American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that was hijacked by five Al Qaeda terrorists and flown into the Pentagon. We were desperate to find out anything we could about the flight because our brother, Charles F. Chic Burlingame, III, was its captain, the pilot in command that fateful morning. The video we were about to see — put together from the plane’s flight data recorder, or black box, and FAA radar tracking — would show us the plane’s every movement, from the time it pushed back from the gate at Dulles Airport to the moment just before it crashed into the Pentagon at 530 mph, one hour and 27 minutes later. We sat in silence for the entire duration of the video. The animation noted when radio contact ceased and when the plane’s unique radar signature, its transponder, was turned off. We watched, barely breathing, as the Boeing 757 changed [...] newsnyork/the-senates-betrayal/
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