[patent]

When I was a bit younger a group of us when up to Canada to do some fishing. We took two small planes. On the way back one of them ran out of gas. You can't get much worse in the way of engine problems then that, flat out of gas. Despite that the pilot still had time to land. He was going land on the road until a car came around the bend smack dab in the way. He had time to look around for somewhere else, but couldn't find much, so he had to ditch in the tree tops.

Regardless, in one of these small planes you have lots of time to decide where you are going, and I can't see any good reason why the pilot would hit the biggest building in town by accident. I have no idea if this was a terrorist attack or not, but if this was truly an accident the pilot probably needed help getting his shoes tied in the morning too.

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[Travis McGee]

If he took off from Switzerland, he wanted to hit with max fuel, hence Milan and not Rome.

The structural "lesson learned" by terrorists on 9-11 is to hit near the top of a skyscraper to collapse it and get max return for your energy input. The low flat Pentagon was a "dud" strike by comparison.