is no terrorism link, but experts say this is a gaping hole in our national security safety net, considering several of the 9/11 hijackers trained at u.s. flight schools. in 2004, the ts anchts transportation safety administration, security administration, rather, was given a mandate to check all foreign flight students against terrorism, criminal investigation, and immigration databases. apparently that did not happen. in fact, tsa is the one that gave the go ahead for these brazilian nationals to get their pilots licenses, then revoked that okay, and now they re investigating how these students actually got their pilots licenses. the owner of this flight school is a man named siago dejesus, arrested back in july, charged with being in this country illegally, his deportation hearing is set for february. he claims he s not in the country illy and his flight school is still operating as we speak now, still teaching