To: Don Earl who wrote (10357 ) 3/13/2005 11:44:34 AM From: sea_urchin Respond to of 20039 Don > if you wanted to have control over the situation, the last thing in the world you would want is to let the flights leave, then try to figure out some way to make them land Why should one want them to land? To make them "vanish" is far simpler. > Whatever theory a person may have about the second plane, whether it was a 767, or a 737, or a 737 cargo plane, it certainly was not a small fighter jet No question about that. My point is, whatever the plane was, it would have had to be both a special plane and specially prepared for the mission. > Flying a plane by remote control is hardly new technology. That's when you can see it flying around you. But consider what took place and the accuracy of the controls needed. It wasn't just take-off in the US and land in Australia or a fly around the park. > the claim is the ability to take external control of a passenger jet is something built in at the factory as an anti hijacking measure. I understand that. But in the situation of a "normal" hijacking the transponder would have been working and air-traffic control fully operative. None of that happened on 9/11. > Considering at least 2 members of PNAC had intimate knowledge of remote control technology, it was certainly within their means to use it on 9/11. I'm not arguing about that. I'm arguing about what actually took place not what might have. > All of the black boxes went missing. What if all of them recorded desperate pilots trying to figure out why their planes were flying themselves? What those black boxes recorded is anyone's guess? But, we'll never know, not while the present administration is in place. > There just plain isn't enough information in the public domain to nail down any of the theories about the planes. While I appreciate the concern of 9/11 researchers and pundits to be "respectable" and not the focus of scorn because of half-baked ideas, I have to say in defence of the so-called "fantasists" that all theories are not necessarily in the realms of fantasy. > About all I can say is even the goofiest of the theories make more sense than the one about how 19 wingnuts from the Middle East, who didn't know how to fly, are impossible to identify, and who were not listed as passengers on the flights, somehow managed to go heads up against a half trillion dollar a year military machine and win. You've said it.