Originally Posted by Double Zero
It's not often mentioned, but unfortunuantely Tom Clancy ( whose work especially 'Red Storm Rising' I admire very much ) came up with the idea of a hi-jacked 747 attacking the White House before 9/11.
Actually, all he was doing was copying a real incident from the Nixon era:
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Samuel Joseph Byck (January 30, 1930 – February 22, 1974) was an unemployed former tire salesman who attempted to hijack a plane flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport on February 22, 1974. He intended to crash into the White House in hopes of killing U.S. President Richard Nixon."
Samuel Byck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia