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(Spoilers) The end of Tom Clancy's 1994 book "Debt of Honor" featured a 747 being crashed into the Capital, which is about as close as fiction gets.
by trothamel 5y ago
(Spoilers)
The end of Tom Clancy's 1994 book "Debt of Honor" featured a 747 being crashed into the Capital, which is about as close as fiction gets.
- anonymousab 5y agoA bit closer is the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen, where a March 2001 episode featured a plot to crash an airliner into the world trade center and blame it on terrorists to justify a new war. Obviously 9/11 wasn't some government conspiracy to purposely spark new wars, but the other details are eerily similar.
- strogonoff 5y agoA plot one of the stages of which included potentially crashing an airplane into WTC[0], among other targets, was uncovered (mostly, it appears, by accident) and thwarted in the mid-nineties. The Lone Gunmen plot coincidence is less curious considering that plot could have served as an inspiration, although the means of hijacking were very different in the series. The sad thing is that uncovering that plot didn’t help prevent the actual attack based on it a few years later… [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot#Phase_III:_CIA_plane_crash_plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot#Phase_III:_CIA_pl...