Right. If your control problems are so bad that you cannot avoid a clearly visible tall building, then you are not going to be flying straight and level either.
For this to have happened by accident, ALL controls would have to have been out. Otherwise the plane could have been crabbed or banked enough to avoid the building. If the plane had two engines, you could even have avoided the building simply by changing throttle controls.
To say a plane hit the most prominent building in that part of Italy, straight on, straight and level, with plenty of visibility, by accident is pure BS.
Some will say it is still possible this was a freak accident. Since anything can be possible if you accept high enough odds, I will say your odds of winning the lottery, twice, are better. If you want to find a benign explanation, pilot suicide for personal reasons is your best bet (which should not be ruled out).
Remember, if the public can be made to believe that it was an accident, then the terrorists will have failed in a big part of their mission: Cause terror.
If YOU were in charge, would you help the terrorists succeed, or would YOU try to deny them the result they crave. It is obvious what is going on.
BTW: Don't give me any of that "you are not an expert" crapola. I've spent lots of time flying in the Air Force, and what I just posted is obvious to anyone who knows how to fly.
I think there's a very good chance this was a most unusual accident, although I'm not ready to say it was NOT a terrorist act. But what you say makes a lot of sense and might explain what's going on. If I were in charge, you are correct, I would do my utmost to foil the terrorists' plans.
Which will make you look just that much more or a "Somebody who doesn't know what he's talking about" when this DOES turn out to be an accident! I spent lots of time flying on American Airlines, but that doesn't make me an expert!
If you want to find a benign explanation, pilot suicide for personal reasons is your best bet (which should not be ruled out).
Excellent points, all, beyond the snip above. I'm having a tough time believing that it is an accident as well.
I don't know much about air traffic control, but are records kept about when and where the plane changed directions? That's the evidence I'm most interested in at this point.
How many hours and in what MDS?
Yeah, but increasing terror "requires increasing government power". So, there's a motivation for the typical power-hungry government official to say it is a terrorist attack.
In the absence of anything better at this time, that is the most likely explanation.