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originally posted by: samkent
Look through this one page and then tell us how they couldn't fly planes.
You conveniently forget that Hani Hanjour had 21 hours in a 737 flight simulators.
You conveniently forget that Atta and Alshehhi had 2 lessons (90 min ea) in 727 simulators.
You conveniently forget that Atta and Alshehhi had 1 lesson in a 767 simulator.
You conveniently forget that Atta and Alshehhi were offered jobs as co-pilots for a
It takes 1500 hours MINIMUM to become an FAA Airline Transport Pilot, and yet they miraciously were pros with 1 or 2 lessons in a flight simulator?
Calling Pilots for 911 truth and Military officers for 911truth websites as "conspiracy theorist"
originally posted by: Debunkology
Well let's get the opinion of a guy who has flown a Boeing 707, 720, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777. Has even flown TWO of the airplanes that were hijacked on 9/11. Flight 175, the second airplane to hit the World Trade Center, and Flight 98 which impacted in Pennsylvania.
The guy is also a former US Airfoce Pilot of 20 years. Over 100 combat missions. A commercial pilot for PanAm and United Airlines for 35 years.
Russ Wittenberg
His key statements which I posted in another thread.
Key Statements:
***I don’t believe it’s possible for a so-called terrorist to train on a [Cessna] 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it’s design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns, exceeding — pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G’s. And the aircraft would literally fall out of the sky. I couldn’t do it and I’m absolutely positive they couldn’t do it."
***“For a guy to just jump into the cockpit and fly like an ace is impossible – there is not one chance in a thousand,” (recalling that when he made the jump from Boeing 727’s to the highly sophisticated computerized characteristics of the 737’s through 767’s it took him considerable time to feel comfortable flying.)
***“The government story they handed us about 9/11 is total Bullsh1t plain and simple.” (Wittenberg convincingly argued there was absolutely no possibility that Flight 77 could have “descended 7,000 feet in two minutes, all the while performing a steep 280 degree banked turn before crashing into the Pentagon’s first floor wall without touching the lawn.”)…
***“Regarding Flight 77, which allegedly hit the Pentagon. “The airplane could not have flown at those speeds which they said it did without going into what they call a high speed stall. The airplane won’t go that fast if you start pulling those high G manoeuvres at those bank angles. … To expect this alleged airplane to run these manoeuvres with a total amateur at the controls is simply ludicrous…”
I have shown you that the hijackers had far more training and experience than you or your expert pilots site let on.
But that's the hook that these conspiracy site use.
I can understand why you believe in this conspiracy theory.
You don't have all the information out there.
But I don't understand why you limit yourself to info from conspiracy sites.
When you go to buy a new auto do you only look at anti Ford/Chevy sites?
You are buying into the 911 conspiracy based only on conspiracy websites.
That's exactly what they are.
originally posted by: Debunkology
It takes 1500 hours MINIMUM to become an FAA Airline Transport Pilot
In my neck of the woods FO's are hired fresh from flight school
Exactly. They were amateurs. And so the post that you disputed which was......
originally posted by: CALGARIAN
Yes, this was def FINALLY resolved... back in 2001.
The MASSIVE amount of fire debris that crushed the side of the building caused it to collapse.
WHY (or who) would have planted explosives in WTC7? lol.
originally posted by: firerescue
a reply to: Debunkology
Exactly. They were amateurs. And so the post that you disputed which was......
The hijackers had more training and flight time than WW II Japanese Kamikazes - most of whom first flight was their
last
The kamikaze had to hit targets smaller than WTC/Pentagon, which was moving and shooting back ...!!
originally posted by: JourneymanWelder
originally posted by: CALGARIAN
Yes, this was def FINALLY resolved... back in 2001.
The MASSIVE amount of fire debris that crushed the side of the building caused it to collapse.
WHY (or who) would have planted explosives in WTC7? lol.
a perfect free fall collapse from fire and debris? you really believe that?
originally posted by: JourneymanWelder
originally posted by: CALGARIAN
Yes, this was def FINALLY resolved... back in 2001.
The MASSIVE amount of fire debris that crushed the side of the building caused it to collapse.
WHY (or who) would have planted explosives in WTC7? lol.
a perfect free fall collapse from fire and debris? you really believe that?
originally posted by: LaBTop
NIST repeated Davids research on the 2.3 seconds of free fall acceleration in the onset of the WTC 7 collapse.
No resistance at all from any building material over about a 35 meters vertical trajectory during 2.3 seconds.
Do you have a really interesting explanation, other than your above one?
The conclusion by independent scientists and engineers that WTC7's destruction was a controlled demolition is supported by a large amount of physical, eyewitness, and other evidence. Most notably, the sudden onset of collapse was followed by a period in which the building fell over 100 feet in free fall. This was shown by Scientists' member David S. Chandler and presented during the public comment period, forcing the government scientists to back down on their claim that no physical laws were violated by their theory. For more information on WTC7 and controlled demolition, see Evidence for WTC7 Ignored or Unexplained By NIST ( www.scientistsfor911truth.org... ) on this site and the article Freefall and Building 7 on 9/11 by David Chandler. ( 911speakout.org... )
David Chandler : NIST's computer model predicted 5.4 seconds for the building to collapse down to the level of the 29th floor. John Gross and his team found the time the roofline reached the 29th floor, then picked a start time exactly 5.4 seconds earlier to give a measurement that matched the model to the nearest tenth of a second. They took their start time several seconds prior to the actual start of freefall when nothing was happening. The building was just sitting there, with the clock running, for several seconds. Then it dropped, with sudden onset, and continued for 2.25 seconds of absolute freefall.
So, NIST now acknowledges that freefall did occur. How do they explain that?
They don't.
They simply state, without elaboration, that their three-phase collapse analysis is consistent with their fire-induced collapse hypothesis. The only thing about the three-phase analysis that is consistent with their collapse hypothesis is the 5.4 second total duration, measuring from their artificially chosen starting time.
In other words, they make no attempt to explain the 2.25 second period of freefall. They just walked away from it without further comment.
The fact remains that freefall is not consistent with any natural scenario involving weakening, buckling, or crushing because in any such a scenario there would be large forces of interaction with the underlying structure that would have slowed the fall. Given that even known controlled demolitions do not remove sufficient structure to allow for actual freefall, how could a natural fire-induced process be more destructive? Add to that the synchronicity of the removal of support across the whole width of the building, evidenced by the levelness of the roofline as it came down, and the suddenness of onset of collapse, and the immediate transition from full support to total freefall. Natural collapse resulting in freefall is simply not plausible. It did not happen. It could not happen. Yet freefall did in fact happen.
This means it was not a natural collapse. Forces other than the falling upper section of the building suddenly destroyed and removed the supporting columns for at least eight stories across the entire length and width of the building.
The freefall of Building 7 is one of the clearest of many "smoking guns" that proves explosives were planted in the World Trade Center buildings prior to 9/11, 2001.
It takes 1500 hours MINIMUM to become an FAA Airline Transport Pilot, and yet they miraciously were pros with 1 or 2 lessons in a flight simulator?
Japanese kamikaze pilots
Comparing it to a lumbering complicated passenger jet.
At Huffman Aviation flying school, 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi pass various pilots’ tests. On August 14, 2000, according to the 9/11 Commission, they pass their private pilot airplane tests, with Atta scoring 97 out of 100 and Alshehhi scoring 83.
Having finished their flight training at Huffman Aviation and passed their commercial pilot license tests (see August 14-December 19, 2000), future 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi spend December 29 and 30 at the SimCenter flight school at Opa-Locka Airport, near Miami. Saying they want to join an Egyptian airline and need experience in a large plane, they each pay $1,500 in cash and spend six hours, split over the two days, training in the school’s Boeing 727 simulator.
If anything his training would have confused him.