Pentagon MASCAL

The Pentagon MASCAL ( Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, often Mascal Project ) was a business game -like exercise for mass casualties from 24 to 26 October 2000, the conference room of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The exercise involved the scenario of an accident in which an aircraft crashes into the Pentagon.

The exercise was to be used for building models and toy cars, included 17 emergency services that would need to cooperate with each other from one to three weeks. It ended with 341 adopted casualties. The scenarios was to ensure cooperation between the emergency services in case of accidents or treated in other scenarios terrorist attacks greater magnitude.

Aftermath

After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, in which actually a hijacked aircraft was piloted into the Pentagon, kept some conspiracy the United States for the perpetrators of the attacks and MASCAL for a preparation for it.

The pilot of this abused American Airlines Flight 77, Charles Burlingame, should, for example, according to a report in Loose Change have participated in the exercise as a former F4 pilot and have only started a few months before the attacks his work with American Airlines after he had previously worked for many years at the Pentagon. An investigation by the website 911myths.com refuted this argument. Burlingame was therefore developed in 1979 at American Airlines worked and worked until 1996, at the Pentagon. He had indeed developed anti -terrorist strategies, but a participation in MASCAL was not detectable. The only correct part is that Burlingame had actually eventually flown aircraft of type F4 as a pilot in the Navy.