FLASHBACK: Inside Jon Scott's chilling on-air 9/11 report, how pilot training quickly led to bin Laden suspicion

Fox News ^ | September 10, 2021 | Brian Flood

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

It took less than one minute from the time a second plane struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, for Fox News anchor Jon Scott to utter the name of Usama bin Laden on air.

Scott’s chilling, eerie intuition before the towers collapsed seems remarkable two decades later – while the Al Qaeda founder has been known as the terrorist who masterminded the attacks for years, many Americans didn’t even know who bin Laden was at the time.

"I still remember the events of that day so vividly. It seems like it happened, you know, a couple of weeks ago," Scott told Fox News Digital.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: bojinka; jonscott; remembering; usamabinladen

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

"We just saw another one. We just saw another one… another plane just flew into the second tower. This has to be deliberate, folks . . . Given what has been going on around the world, some of the key suspects come to mind, Usama bin Laden, who knows what."

Jon Scott knew it was the Bojinka Plot, the plan to

[Resolute Conservative]

Bill Clinton knew who he was and did nothing.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

The Cole led to the Modern Bojinka.

[Colt1851Navy]

I went to a US Government Class on WMD and Mass Casualty and who was on the cover of our book but UBL himself, this was 1997. The Feds should have been on the lookout.

[Inyo-Mono]

I started my day on September 11, 2001 at 6:00 AM Pacific Time by starting my truck in the driveway to warm up the engine when I heard an ABC News reporter on the radio say that a plane had struck the World Trade Center.

I have to admit, before that moment I had never heard of the World Trade Center not being a follower of what goes on in New York. The news report made it sound like a small plane had crashed into the building, so I went back inside to grab a cup of coffee before climbing back into my truck to head off to work and then heard that a second plane had just hit the other tower. My first thought was “terrorists” then bin Laden because I had read an article about him in the L.A. Times a couple of years before naming him as a terrorist to watch out for.