Posted on 09/11/2001 10:41:46 PM PDT by Plummz
Last summer was a movement to ban local police from carrying into airports.
Something that has been bothering me, and surely most people, is the deadly accuracy of the suicide pilots. How could they hit their targets perfectly on the first try? What are the odds of this happening three times in a row? How could they eye-ball a large jet aircraft right into a perfect strike of each of the twin towers twice and then do the same thing to the Pentagon?This isn't as difficult as the experts would have you believe. If any of your theories were true, the flight paths would have been much more direct and made fewer turns, changes of altitude and speed.I do not think they could by themselves or by eye-balling it. Here is my theory...One of two things occurred.
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If you look at the radar traces that were shown on some of the networks, you'll see that the terrorist "pilots" didn't maintain constant speed, or altitude. They also followed routes that followed major highways, indicating they were navigating visually by landmarks on the ground, not by instruments.
Hitting a building the size of the World Trade Center isn't as difficult as you think. I don't understand why the "experts" and the media are spreading this disinformation. Probably because they don't want to scare the public by telling everybody that someone could do this with minimal simulator time, possibly even using only a cheap PC based simulator.
If you had, you would never have made comments as stupid as those contained in that lengthy post.
Weather was CAVU, the twin towers can be seen for almost 75 miles and it does not take a genius to point the plane in the direction you want to go.
Power management would probably have been the most difficult part of the task facing an inexperienced pilot but who says that these were inexperienced pilots?
Minimalism is an effective means of inciting terror in those willing to be terrorized. Be aware and prepared for low tech. If "something" does not look right, speak up, folks.
We are at peril, but most not afraid. Passive victims are surely most at risk.
We are in for a war of annihililation. They are killing us by the thousands, so we kill them first, by the thousands and thousands. Jihadeology is a pathological faith in murder. Kill it.
The only time in the past 10 years that I have gotten on an airplane is when I am going overseas. The hassle at the airports with all my computer, projectors, and weapons is not worth it. Besides, if the trip is under 400 miles, most of the time the door to door travel time is better driving.
And you have a lot more room in the vehicle than cramped into those economy seats when you are over 6 foot 5 inches and 260 lbs.
A reporter on FNC is speculating that the Pentagon plane's original target was the White House, but they couldn't find it, so then went for a bigger, easier target, the Pentagon.
Go back 1400 years. They were at one time world leaders, and now are trailing backwards, and hate us for our success and freedom.
Now, to kill all the Islamic-wogs, and be done with the pigs....FRegards
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