It’s Easy to Get Knives and Razors Onto a Plane, the Hijackers Found

In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: Real pilots like to fly planes. What explains a flight school student who doesn’t? FBI agents went to search Zacarias Moussaoui’s rooms. August 16, 2001: The intelligence office of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned airlines in an August 16 circular (“Disguised Weapons,” IN-2001-12) that terrorists might use weapons modified from everyday objects to hijack an airplane. Read More on Analysis The circular had no real impact on airport security because the 9/11 hijackers seem to have used only knives and…