I suspect that the piece is not saying the terrorist is a pilot. In the sentence that contains the phrase below, I suspect that the author was quoting a pilot named Dragan Jovanovic, i.e., the translation has “told” whereas it should be “said”.
told RTS penzionsani pilot Dragan Jovanovic.
I didn't imply it said that.
What my point is this just happened and already theyre implying the intruder could not bring the plane down.
I was looking for a better explanation why it couldnt be done, if the intruder was a trained pilot or knew how to shut off the engines or how to put the plane into a dive.- Tom