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How 9/11 Changed Flight Schools in Florida

Simulator at Phoenix East Aviation
Simulator at Phoenix East Aviation

September 07, 2011 | WMFE - This week on 90.7 is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks . Three of the hijackers who carried out those attacks learned to fly at Florida flight schools. In the years since 9-11 security procedures at flight schools have been tightened. 90.7s Tom Parkinson recently paid a visit to Phoenix East Aviation school at the Daytona Beach International Airport. He spoke with the school's vice president Andre Maye, who says that, just hours after the attacks on 9-11, officials from the F-B-I started asking questions about his flight school and its students.


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