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Agency
Was to Crash Plane on 9/11 |
By
JOHN J. LUMPKIN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — In what the government
describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S.
intelligence agency was planning an exercise
last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft
would crash into one of its buildings. But
the cause wasn't terrorism — it was to be
a simulated accident.
Officials at the Chantilly, Va.-based
National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled
an exercise that morning in which a small
corporate jet would crash into one of the
four towers at the agency's headquarters
building after experiencing a mechanical
failure.
The agency is about four miles from the
runways of Washington Dulles International
Airport.
Agency chiefs came up with the scenario to
test employees' ability to respond to a
disaster, said spokesman Art Haubold. No
actual plane was to be involved — to
simulate the damage from the crash, some
stairwells and exits were to be closed off,
forcing employees to find other ways to
evacuate the building.
``It was just an incredible coincidence that
this happened to involve an aircraft
crashing into our facility,'' Haubold said.
``As soon as the real world events began, we
canceled the exercise.''
Terrorism was to play no role in the
exercise, which had been planned for several
months, he said.
Adding to the coincidence, American Airlines
Flight 77 — the Boeing 767 that was
hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon —
took off from Dulles at 8:10 a.m. on Sept.
11, 50 minutes before the exercise was to
begin. It struck the Pentagon around 9:40
a.m., killing 64 aboard the plane and 125 on
the ground.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates
many of the nation's spy satellites. It
draws its personnel from the military and
the CIA.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, most of the
3,000 people who work at agency headquarters
were sent home, save for some essential
personnel, Haubold said.
An announcement for an upcoming homeland
security conference in Chicago first noted
the exercise.
In a promotion for speaker John Fulton, a
CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO's
strategic gaming division, the announcement
says, ``On the morning of September 11th
2001, Mr. Fulton and his team ... were
running a pre-planned simulation to explore
the emergency response issues that would be
created if a plane were to strike a
building. Little did they know that the
scenario would come true in a dramatic way
that day.''
The conference is being run by the National
Law Enforcement and Security Institute.
Updated: August 22, 2002 4:53 PM
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