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originally posted by: Doctor Smith
I'm sure you have nothing.
originally posted by: Doctor Smith Those planes were remote controlled or those pilots were trained with exactly the same aircraft.
Your evidence for that claim is what exactly?
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Doctor Smith
Hani Hanjour was training on 737s in simulators, and all the other pilots were training in large aircraft on simulators. All had their commercial ratings.
At Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., 20 miles west of Washington, flight instructor Sheri Baxter instantly recognized the name of alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour when the FBI released a list of 19 suspects in the four hijackings. Hanjour, the only suspect on Flight 77 the FBI listed as a pilot, had come to the airport one month earlier seeking to rent a small plane. However, when Baxter and fellow instructor Ben Conner took the slender, soft-spoken Hanjour on three test runs during the second week of August, they found he had trouble controlling and landing the single-engine Cessna 172. Even though Hanjour showed a federal pilot's license and a log book cataloging 600 hours of flying experience, chief flight instructor Marcel Bernard declined to rent him a plane without more lessons.
By March of 2001, he had completed initial 737 training at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Mesa AZ.
He flew several flights in rented aircraft from the Caldwell Flight Academy
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Doctor Smith
Did you read the rest of it? He completed initial training in the 737 simulator in March of 2001, and there is information that he had gone back in June to continue simulator work.
He was military trained, and an awesome pilot, yet if you look at the FDR for that turn that he made to hit the Pentagon, it was so bad that almost any semi-skilled pilot would have made it. He was all over the place in that turn. It was barely coordinated.