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In reply to the discussion: Skygate 911 [View all]dballance
(5,756 posts)I know several pilots who are checked out on the 757 and 767. Boeing designed them to be easy to check out on one if you already have on the other. I don't know a single one of those pilots who says they could have made the maneuvers that the barely trained, barely able to solo on a single-engine Cessna made that day. Among my friends who are pilots they all have thousands of hours in the cockpit.
It's just not statictically possible for so many rookie pilots with so little time in the cockpits of those large planes to have managed that - IMHO. One does not go from driving a Honda to driving a formula one race car without lots of practice and lots of experience on the track. The same is even more true for aircraft. One has to be checked out on each new type of aircraft before one is allowed to fly it. If one flies Airbus' then changing to a Boeing takes TIME and training and vice versa. The same is true of moving from a single-engine, Cessna that weighs than one of the landing the gear on a 757 or 767. You don't just do that by spending time in a simulator. Not to mention, reports show, they were all pretty bad in the simulators. It's difficult to believe that they ALL got that lucky on the same day. If one is being objective about it. Believing that is actually possible is like telling me that once you've driven a 20 or so foot pleasure boat then you're ready to pilot a yacht of 200' or more. That's just not practical to believe. And don't tell me "Well, all they had to do is keep it in the air on autopilot until they got where they crashed." That's absurd. The autopilot for each and everyone of those planes had to have already been programmed for their original destinations - not the WTC or the Pentagon.
No steel-framed building of the construction of WTC 7 has ever gone down in the manner WTC 7 went down due to office fires either before or since. There have been many office fires in buildings of the same sort of construction that didn't cause the entire building to fail.
If you have doubts about what I'm saying. There is a good book called "The Big Bamboozle." It is written by a pilot checked out as Captain on both the 757 and 767. Also on 747's.
I'm not saying I know who did 9/11. I'm not saying that it was an inside job. I don't know and probably never will. I'm just saying that what we've been told doesn't square up with common sense and most laws of physics.
It does seem rather odd to me that, all of a sudden, people were supposedly dwelling in caves in the Middle East; whose biggest hits before 9/11 were using car-bombs, suicide-bombers, and sneaking explosives into the WTC in a truck on small boat next to the USS Cole; suddenly, suddenly, master-minded a plan that subverted all of our national defenses. A plan so well coordinated and timed that it seems to me, at least, it took some pretty darned sharp people to plan and those skills don't seem to be evident in most of OSB-L's major attacks.
That's just a little too much for me to swallow.
Seger and Beachnut. If you want to debate Bob then why not choose a Google Chat or some other internet service that can be recorded and that in which several of us can participate? Bring your experts. We'll bring ours. It would be a lot more fun as an interactive debate rather than a series of posts on a board like DU.