> You lost me.
It would seem that the implication is that the Saudi
pilot might have been suicide pilot in training.
As for the collision itself, it sounds like a classic
general aviation vertical stack-up on final. The date
strikes me as a coincidence.
> ... Further examination of the damaged airplanes showed
> two diagonal slashes on the bottom-side of the Cherokee ...
Suggesting that the Aztec was below the Cherokee.
Since the Cherokee was piloted by the Saudi, a deliberate
collision seems unlikely. These were both low-wing a/c.
The Aztec pilot needed to look up, and maybe back.
But by the time the controller realized he had two
a/c on final that didn't see each other, it may have
been too late for any corrective calls.
Maybe they picked 9/11/01 as the date for the attack because one of their boys was killed a year earlier?
Nope. The Aztec is substantially faster than the Cherokee. For the Aztec to have been below and ahead of the Cherokee as you hypothesize, the faster Aztec would have had to have flown under the slower Cherokee...and then reduced speed so much as to permit an accident. All without seeing the slow aircraft that he already flew under.
Not likely.
Heh.... I'd fire the guy that thought up the idea of practice suicide runs.
In all seriousness, this sounds like a traffic pattern collision to me. If I've noticed one thing in common with terrorist acts... they look like terrorist acts, therefore evoking terror... They don't try to make them look like accidents.
Was the Saudi pilot trying to land?
I understand they are not very practiced at that part.