I could teach you how to do that in 20 minutes in X-Plane 6.0
later recalling that "he could not fly at all."
The procedures and techniques necessary to safely and legally operate a commercial aircraft as well as to be considered "able to fly at all" by pilot instructors are far harder than flying into the twin towers
Yeah and the actual pilots got the hard parts out of the way, of starting up the plane, navigating the airport, communicating with ATC, and taking off. "he could not fly at all" means jack shit when the goal is to crash the plane
"They almost had to hit the towers like they were threading the eye of a needle," said Michael Barr, director of aviation safety programs at the University of Southern California and a former Air Force fighter-bomber pilot.
Neither of his former students was ultimately able to obtain a pilot’s license and both ended up as two of the four muscle men aboard American Airlines Flight 77, threatening the crew and passengers with box cutters and knives, while another terrorist, Hani Hanjour, flew the Boeing into the Pentagon
another terrorist, Hani Hanjour, flew the Boeing into the Pentagon
And another would-be terrorist who was part of this plot decided to just abandon it and head back home because he got bored.
I'm not sure if there's any analysis of the proficiency of the terrorists who flew the planes into the buildings out there, nor how this was determined conclusively, because I haven't done a deep dive into the subject myself.
But what is important to understand is that this paints a picture of how professional, or rather how unprofessional, this operation was.
Oh yeah thats the Pentagon guy, no that was easy too, give me 25 minutes I'm not even kidding. He just approximately landed on the building going full speed. The only hard part about actually landing is hitting a safe speed at the proper angle and not sliding off the end of the runway due to too much speed.
The Pentagon is (or at least for a time was) the largest office building in the world, too. It's enormous. Probably easier to hit than the Twin Towers.
I could teach you how to do that in 20 minutes in X-Plane 6.0
The procedures and techniques necessary to safely and legally operate a commercial aircraft as well as to be considered "able to fly at all" by pilot instructors are far harder than flying into the twin towers
Yeah and the actual pilots got the hard parts out of the way, of starting up the plane, navigating the airport, communicating with ATC, and taking off. "he could not fly at all" means jack shit when the goal is to crash the plane
If anything, being unable to fly is exactly why the plane crashed
Hijackers flew skilfully to targets, experts say
Flight trainer flunked 2 9/11 hijackers
And another would-be terrorist who was part of this plot decided to just abandon it and head back home because he got bored.
I'm not sure if there's any analysis of the proficiency of the terrorists who flew the planes into the buildings out there, nor how this was determined conclusively, because I haven't done a deep dive into the subject myself.
But what is important to understand is that this paints a picture of how professional, or rather how unprofessional, this operation was.
Other evidence that points in this direction is the movements of Mohammed Atta (and I believe one of his co-conspirators) on September 10th.
Atta, at least, could fly a plane.
But he didn't fly into the towers, he flew into the Pentagon.
A 5-story building, at ground level, while doing 850 kph in a civilian airliner, less than 20 ft above ground. On the first try.
After executing said corkscrew maneuver in an unfamiliar airplane.
Oh yeah thats the Pentagon guy, no that was easy too, give me 25 minutes I'm not even kidding. He just approximately landed on the building going full speed. The only hard part about actually landing is hitting a safe speed at the proper angle and not sliding off the end of the runway due to too much speed.
The Pentagon is (or at least for a time was) the largest office building in the world, too. It's enormous. Probably easier to hit than the Twin Towers.