The Precursor To 9/11 That Was Dismissed | Mayday: Air Disaster

9/11 took the world by surprise. We asked how could it have happened. On Christmas Eve in 1994, an Airbus carrying 177 people and 15 tons of highly flammable jet fuel explodes over Paris. Burning debris rains down on the City of Light, setting fire to everything in its wake. It’s a catastrophic precursor to 9/11… Only it never happened! How did French authorities prevent one of the worst outcomes for AF8969? Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 2 Episode 3 “Killing Machine”: French intelligence had learned that the hijackers intended to go on to Paris and explode the plane over the city. It’s said that French jet fighters were ordered to accompany the plane with instructions to shoot it down if it veered from its course. Once in Marseilles, the French authorities conducted a cat-and-mouse game with the terrorists. Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follow