Ruune Rebellion wrote:
He did though. He claimed anyone could fly a plane into the twin towers with no training. Thing is my best mate is a pilot, now for Qantas Claims that it would be 100% impossible for someone who trained in a crop spraying plane with no experience of a commercial jet liner to pull it off. But hey. He’s obviously lying and Cronus knows best
He's your 'best' mate now is he? Even my 5 year old has grown out of pretend friends.
So, Ruuuune, tell me, if it wasn't the hijackers, who was it? Suicidal expert pilots? Remote controlled aircraft? (because flying an aircraft by remote control would be so much easier, obviously) Missiles with holographic wings? Drones? Mass hysteria? And what happened to the real aircraft and passengers? Take your tin foil hat off and enlighten us, because if you're so certain it wasn't the hijackers, you must know what it was.
Anyway, get yer facts right. They had quite a bit of training and had logged hundreds of hours. Some had many hundreds of hours in simulators (including B737 and B767), and some held commercial pilots licences. They didn't need be any good at take-off, landing, or most of the complexities of flying. To achieve their mission they simply needed to navigate to their target and descend into it. It was a perfectly clear day with calm conditions and visibility probably over 50 miles at altitude.
Yes, there are some questions over controlling the aircraft at high speed at fairly low altitude, but for every pilot who insists it can't be done, there are plenty who say it can. There are forums full of squabbling pilots to this day (don't bother, the technicalities are probably beyond you). Either way, you know what, I reckon it can be done simply because it was.
*makes note to avoid Qantas*
