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To: ctdonath2
Airplanes do not fly straight & level into the center of tall buildings on clear sunny days. They just don't.

The 25th floor is not the center of a 30 floor building. If the pilot had no control of the flaps, then it can happen. Or are you saying that it is with 100% certainty that it can never ever happen? Guess you can't say that huh?

528 posted on 04/18/2002 10:28:18 AM PDT by Bommer
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To: Bommer
The 25th floor is not the center of a 30 floor building.

Not vertically center, but it was close to horizontally centered on the building.

539 posted on 04/18/2002 10:29:45 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Bommer
So, a 70-year old man, who we would assume has been flying for a very long time, and maybe has taken this trip many, many times, just all of the sudden "forgets" there is a building there?

May I also mention that there was a HUGE train station nearby where people would have been going to?

It may very well be an accident. But it may very well not have been an accident.

555 posted on 04/18/2002 10:32:50 AM PDT by DJ88
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To: Bommer
Look at the picture. It certainly did hit the horizontal center of the building.
570 posted on 04/18/2002 10:35:43 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Bommer
"If the pilot had no control of the flaps, then it can happen"

Well... you just lost all your flying knowledge points with this one. I would also think you have "center" confused with "middle". The plane did hit "Top Center".

574 posted on 04/18/2002 10:36:16 AM PDT by bluecollarman
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To: Bommer
The 25th floor is not the center of a 30 floor building.

I was referring to the horizontal positioning (after hitting "post" I figured you'd miss the point). Look at the pictures - such a hit is hard enough to do intentionally.

If the pilot had no control of the flaps,

then he would have had to be intentionally flying straight and level at the building the moment ALL directional controls failed, a particular minute of angle (or less). Supremely unlikely.

Or are you saying that it is with 100% certainty that it can never ever happen?

There is one law of probability: small enough probabilities don't happen in real life.

Pointing the plane in the right horizontal direction would have been at best a 1/1296000 chance (one second of angle), multiplied by the chance of all 5 directional controls (four vertical, one horizontal) failing simultaniously at the moment he's pointing in that particular direction. Look at the crash photos again, with the impact perfectly horizontally centered, and an aesthetic distance from the top of the building - do you REALLY think this was just an accident?

There is a chance that all the air in this room will suddenly flow into my cube and implode me with the pressure. I'm not worried about it. Nor do I think that crash was accidental; maybe not terrorist per se, but not an accident.

613 posted on 04/18/2002 10:42:10 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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