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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (1693)	8/4/2003 10:26:41 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

I'm in favor of more investigation and greater transparency. I'll maintain my minority view that taking over controls of a jetliner in mid flight and guiding it to a specific destination would be no problem at all for someone with some air time in any type and some training in the specific type. I won't go into specifics for obvious reasons. I have no jet training, just what I've heard from friends and what I've read, but I am confident I could do what those hijackers did with no simulator time or even looking at the manuals for the type. It's just not that hard. Could be the pros and military folks don't want to let on how simple it is, but I'd say it's pretty apparent the hijackers figured it out. They did do a fair amount of training and if they prepped their navigation plan and the rest of the timing etc, what they did is very plausible to me. It's sure as heck a a lot more plausible than thinking that someone rigged these planes for robotic remote controls and flew them that way. There is no way in the world that experienced pilots would go through a preflight and not see that all kinds of additional equipment was on board. Ask your brother in law about that one. I'll bet he agrees with me.