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

To: sea_urchin who wrote (11450)	8/18/2005 12:48:42 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

I agree. An unbiased evaluation of the flight skills demonstrated on 9/11/01 do not point to people who learned how to fly in flight simulators. The percission and skill in which the targets were struck was quite astonishing. You'd think some yahoo terrorist who took a 40 hour flight similulator class would probably either miss their target or hit it awkwardly. The fact that they hit the all three targets with such skill is mind boggling.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (11450)	8/19/2005 12:18:34 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

But I take an even more cynical view that terrorists could not have flown the planes in the manner they were, especially the one that hit WTC2 and also the Pentagon, both of which would have required a highly skilled pilot or else were radio-controlled. Did the 9-11 commission investigate the training that the 19 hijackers received, and did they get expert testimony on what level of skill would be needed to pilot a 757 into a target? I'm not a pilot, so I don't have the answer. But having flown in the passenger seat of a small plane, it wouldn't have been that much of a trick to take the stick and zero in on a target if it was visable. But the terrorists couldn't see the towers or the Pentagon...they would have had to have at least rudimentary navigation skills...and they would have to know how to turn off the transponders too. Can you get that from a flight simulator? There's no transponders in a Cessna trainer. Orca