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Secretary Rice: “I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile” 1972: Southern Airways Flt 49 threatened to crash into Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1974: S. Byck attempted to hijack Delta DC-9 to crash it into White House 1993: Iran training pilots to fly into buildings 1994: Air France Flt 8969 1994: FedEx Flt 705 1994: Terror 2000 1995: Bojinka plot included crashing planes into Sears Tower, Transamerica Bldg, WTC, John Hancock Tower, U.S. Congress, White House 1996: Ethiopian Airlines Flt 961 1996: Chechen rebel threatened crash into Kremlin 1998: Kaplanicar (Turkish) attempt to crash airplane into tomb of Attaturk 1999: MI6 warned of suicide attack 1999: Research Div. of L.O.C warned of airplane attacks 1999: Keynote address at NDU warned of UAV attacks on buildings 2000: Security consultant warned “most serious threat to WTC was someone flying a plane into it” March, 2001: The Lone Gunmen – hijacked B-727 flown into WTC