Posted on 08/29/2002 1:41:13 PM PDT by DrLiberty
http://the-news.net/cgi-bin/story.pl?title=UK%20press%20back%20THE%20NEWS%20on%20Sep%2011%20attack&edition=666
This dopey article is wrong on so many issues I'm thinking that somebody remotely controlled the reporter's typewriter just to make him look like an idiot.
Do they have typewriters in Portugal?
That was the clincher for me. Sheesh. This belongs over on the American hating DU webshiite....
Perhaps the pilots were dead before it occurred to them that the planes were doomed and they should take those actions.
Yes, and a 737 has nowhere near the range to get from Edwards (Los Angeles area) to South Australia....hell, even 747's have been known to have to come to ground for fuel before they even get as far as Sydney...and southern Oz is another hour beyond.
Oh yeah, they had one of those.
Idiots.
GPS. Flight Management Systems. Simulators.
Actually, the two WTC hijackers nearly collided over the water while on the "final approach" to the Twin Towers. They weren't THAT good.
It further throws into doubt their ability to master the intricacies of the instrument flight rules (IFR) in the 45 minutes from take off to the point of impact.
They weren't "in the system," i.e., flying according to IFR. The day was VMC (visual meteorological conditions), or severe clear. Just because commercial airlines are required to fly under IFR doesn't mean that a hijacker of a commercial airline is gonna follow the rules! Sheesh.
A further question raised by the inquiry was why none of the pilots concerned had alerted ground control. It stated that all pilots are trained to punch a four-digit code into the flight control’s transponder to warn ground control crews of a hijacking - but this did not happen.
Because they were dead.
And for good measure, I'm sure the hijackers either popped the circuit breakers for the transponder or just turned it off.
So..this writer thinks we should not have gone to war with Japan at the time we did? Does he think Roosevelt planned the attack on Pearl Harbor with the Japanese?
At any rate, if we delayed declaring war after Pearl Harbor, we might have lost the war with Japan.
Yup. I always make my best and most informed judgements on three days' worth of sleep deficit.
1. There were calls from flight 93 describing the hijacking. Unless, of course, the military had some Arabs with knives as patsies to pretend to take over the plane.
2. Flight 77 (Pentagon) took a round-about course in the DC area. No reason to do that if it is controlled from the ground. The pilot was looking for a target, and I don't think that it was originally the Pentagon.
3. It isn't that difficult to fly a plane. Pilots earn the big bucks safely landing a plane in a driving rainstorm with a nasty cross wind. Flying on a perfectly clear day when you don't give a damn about flight lanes or clearing your flight into the 2nd and 3rd tallest buildings in the country with air traffic control isn't hard.
He said that all the evidence points to the fact that the pilots and their crews had not taken any evasive action to resist the supposed hijackers. They had not attempted any sudden changes in flight path or nose-dive procedures - which led him to believe that they had no control over their aircraft.
4. Before 9/11, the rule was "If a hijacker wants the plane, he gets the plane. No reason for people to die just to prevent him from going to Cuba." You just let the nice Arab man have the plane and let the authorities on the ground worry about getting the passengers and crew out safely. It wasn't until September 12 that the rule became "Anyone who tries to take the plane will die. If that means everyone else dies too, then so be it." (Except, of course, you can't arm the pilots. That would be dangerous for the passengers.)
Idiots!!
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