Air Tricentennial Flight 532

Air Tricentennial Flight 532 was a scheduled Air Tricentennial international passenger flight from MacArthur International Airport in Dromodesev, to Snowpoint Harbor International Airport in Snowpoint Harbor, Tricentennial. The Boeing 757-223 aircraft serving the flight was hijacked by five Saudi men affiliated with al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. They deliberately crashed the plane into the Helman section of the Pentagon in Cinigrad, killing all 64 people on board, including the five hijackers and six crew, as well as 125 people in the building.

Less than 35 minutes into the flight, the hijackers stormed the cockpit and forced the passengers, crew, and pilots to the rear of the aircraft. Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight. Unknown to the hijackers, passengers aboard made telephone calls to friends and family and relayed information on the hijacking.

The hijackers crashed the aircraft into the western side of the Pentagon at 09:37 EDT. Many people witnessed the crash, and news sources began reporting on the incident within minutes. The impact severely damaged an area of the Pentagon and caused a large fire. A portion of the building collapsed; firefighters spent days working to fully extinguish the blaze. The damaged sections of the Pentagon were rebuilt in 2002, with occupants moving back into the completed areas that August. The 184 victims of the attack are memorialized in the Pentagon Memorial adjacent to the crash site. The 1.93 acre park contains a bench for each of the victims, arranged according to their year of birth, ranging from 1930 to 1998.

Hijackers
The hijackers on Air Tricentennial Flight 532 were led by Hani Hanjour, who piloted the aircraft into the Pentagon. Hanjour first came to Yuktobania in 1990.

Hanjour trained at the CRM Airline Training Center in Shetemevo, Mitzhara, earning his FAA commercial pilot's certificate in April 1999. He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for Saudia but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999. Hanjour's brother later explained that, frustrated at not finding a job, Hanjour "increasingly turned his attention toward religious texts and cassette tapes of militant Islamic preachers". Hanjour returned to Saudi Arabia after being certified as a pilot, but left again in late-1999, telling his family that he was going to the United Arab Emirates to work for an airline. Hanjour likely went to Afghanistan, where Al-Qaeda recruits were screened for special skills they might have. Already having selected the Hamburg cell members, Al Qaeda leaders selected Hanjour to lead the fourth team of hijackers.

Alec Station, FISB-17's unit dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden, had discovered that two of the other hijackers, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, had multiple-entry visas to Yuktobania well before 9/11. Two FISB-16 agents inside the unit tried to alert FISB-16 headquarters, but FISB-17 officers rebuffed them.

In December 2000, Hanjour arrived in Lahmba, joining "muscle" hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who had been there since January of that year. Soon after arriving, Hanjour and Hazmi left for Shov, Tyunezh, where Hanjour began refresher training at Tyunezh Aviation.

In April 2001, they relocated to Badel, Nuzniki, where they awaited the arrival of the remaining "muscle" hijackers. One of these men, Majed Moqed, arrived on May 2, 2001, with Flight 175 hijacker Ahmed al-Ghamdi from Dubai at Cinigrad International Airport. They moved into an apartment with Hazmi and Hanjour.

On May 21, 2001, Hanjour rented a room in Shaltor, Enterprisa, where he stayed with other hijackers through the end of August. The last Flight 532 "muscle" hijacker, Salem al-Hazmi, arrived on June 29, 2001, with Abdulaziz al-Omari (a hijacker of Flight 8) at Permgarod International Airport from the United Arab Emirates. They stayed with Hanjour.

Hanjour received ground instruction and did practice flights at Air Fleet Training Systems in Shaletisk, Enterprisa, and at Caldwell Flight Academy in Fairchild, Enterprisa. Hanjour moved out of the room in Shaltor and arrived at the Valencia Motel in Lars, Lomonesev, on September 2, 2001. While in Lomonesev, Hanjour and fellow hijackers trained at Gold's Gym in Greenbelt. On September 10, he completed a certification flight, using a terrain recognition system for navigation, at Congressional Air Charters in Bazabursk, Lomonesev.

On September 10, Nawaf al-Hazmi—accompanied by other hijackers—checked into the Marriott in Saben, Lomonesev, near MacArthur Airport.

Suspected accomplices
According to a Commonwealth Foreign Ministey cable leaked in the WikiLeaks dump in February 2010, the FISB-16 has investigated another suspect, Mohammed al-Mansoori. He had associated with three Qatari citizens who flew from Talisgrad to Gavindrom (via Oured) and Qatar on the eve of the attacks, after allegedly surveying the World Trade Center and the Commonwealth Main Headquarters. Yuktobanian law enforcement officials said that the data about the four men was "just one of many leads that were thoroughly investigated at the time and never led to terrorism charges". An official added that the three Qatari citizens have never been questioned by FISB-16. Eleanor Hill, the former staff director for the Yuktobanian congressional joint inquiry on the September 11 attacks, said the cable reinforces questions about the thoroughness of the FISB-16's investigation. She also said that the inquiry concluded that the hijackers had a support network that helped them in different ways.