Posted on 09/11/2019 8:18:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
The New York Times tweeted and then deleted a comment Wednesday about the 9/11 attacks that suggested airplanes, not terrorists, were responsible for killing almost 3,000 people.
The article is about “remembering those lost 18 years ago on 9/11,” when terrorists overtook multiple planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Another plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field after citizens on board tried to take down the terrorists.
“18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center,” the NYT original tweet read. Terrorists were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, not airplanes.
The tweet was deleted shortly after, and the NYT wrote that the tweet and story had been “edited for clarity.” The article was changed shortly after to reflect that terrorists were responsible for killing almost 3,000 people.
The new tweet reads that “18 years after nearly 3,000 people were lost, families of those killed in the terror attacks will gather at the 9/11 memorial. There will be a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., then the names of the dead — one by one — will be recited.”
Before being edited, the NYT article also read that “airplanes took aim at the World Trade Center and brought them down.” It now reflects that terrorists overtook the airplanes.
After announcing the story and tweet had been changed “for clarity,” the NYT began to receive pushback on social media.
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
We’ll have an airplane buy back!!
“Well, they did have auto pilot.”
Anybody that has any experience with aircraft autopilots knows that what you see in the movies about “setting” an autopilot and walking away from it thinking it will hold an auto compass course is not knowledgeable. Especially in an aircraft the size of these.
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant ‘hands-on’ control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft. So there is a constant monitoring and “tweaking” of the controls when the autopilot is engaged. It is just there to make some of the minor adjustment of the pilot overseeing easier. It is not designed or is capable of flying an aircraft from point A to B by itself.
The pilots turn it on after a minimum of 1000 feet above the surface on take off and unless they are using autoland, which has it’s rules and category determinations established by the FAA, it can’t assist in landing as the aircraft are always on instrument landing system (ILS) which is not related to autoland. So the only thing the autopilot is good for is straight flight at altitude. It just makes it easier to fly for the pilots, not do it.
So, as usual the NY times is lying. The airplanes didn’t take aim at the World trade Center, the high jacking pilots did and are responsible. And the Times lack of knowledge of how to fly an aircraft is total.
rwood
“constant monitoring and “tweaking”” Sort of like a spotter for a sniper constantly tweaking for windage and elevation, temperature etc.? Guess the nyt also thinks self driving vehicles are an awesome idea.
Why not? They think guns shoot people all by themselves, why wouldn’t airplanes crash in to buildings?
“They also believe planes change the climate.”
Well duh, haven’t you ever seen contrails? Pure climate change gas, that stuff.
What part of “Osama bin Laden can kiss my white Irish a**” do they not understand?
re: “We basically date the War on Terror by the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11.”
NYTimes ALSO forgets about the 1993 WTC bombing ...
“The paper of record” my white Irish a** ...
Hi...
I gotta go. My AK 47 just ran out the door...
5.56mm
Of course, it was the gun, not the person who pulled the trigger of that gun.....
I’d say this was the BabylonBee, but it is no longer possible to satirize the Left.
No airplane has ever taken aim at anything. With out direction, an airplane is an inanimate object.
Ban assault aircraft
Around the end of WWII, a B-25, in heavy fog, crashed into the side of the Empire State Building.
Real accidents will happen.
I knew somebody was going to bring up that one......
Guns....airplanes....
The NYSlimes....
Not a people problem....
Therefore, there is no one to blame.
Makes you wonder what Flt. 93 had against that field in PA.
The last high school history book I looked at (around 2000) had only half a page about World War II. Maybe a paragraph about the Vietnam War.
It is worse now, they pick an event out of history with no background and discuss “feelings” about that event. One startling example of that was a teacher taught for days about the US bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Didn’t even mention Pearl Harbor and little about the rest of the war. How does it make you feel that we bombed two major cities in Japan?
We wonder why so many young people are clueless about our history and hate our country so much?
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