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Originally posted by manta
swapped the planes in mid air, landed at a military air base and the pasangers were taken away and killed.
Simple answer but that how they COULD have done it. I personally dont think they did it like that at all.
On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.
He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.
"In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death," he said.
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.
"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
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President Bush gave the military orders to intercept and shoot down any commercial airliners that refused instructions to turn away from Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.
"I wholeheartedly concurred in the decision he made, that if the plane would not divert, if they wouldn't pay any attention to instructions to move away from the city, as a last resort our pilots were authorized to take them out," Cheney said on "Meet the Press."
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Originally posted by TheShroudOfMemphis
That way they can blame the hijackers and just need to convince people that guys who couldn't fly single engine cesnas could actually pull off the moves that make military pilots scratch their heads.
Originally posted by defcon5
Originally posted by TheShroudOfMemphis
That way they can blame the hijackers and just need to convince people that guys who couldn't fly single engine cesnas could actually pull off the moves that make military pilots scratch their heads.
I am getting quite tired of seeing this remark, its based on opinion, nothing else. Others that have had flight experience disagree with it. This person had professional simulator time, a 757 is no harder to fly then a Cessna and is in fact more stable, and a 3 mile 270 degree descending turn is not a difficult maneuver. Any pilot that thinks this maneuver is difficult needs to go back to flight school…
The FBI has refused to release an audio record or transcript of Flight 93's voice recorder with the excuse: "we do not believe that the horror captured on the cockpit voice recording will console them in any way."
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Originally posted by defcon5
Well let’s see what is the tough part of flying a commercial airliner as opposed to a Cessna?
1) Setting the controls up, doing the checklists.
2) Taking off.
3) Navigating in accordance with the ATC.
4) Landing.
How many of those things did he have to do?
None, the controls where all set, the engines running, plane flying and he had no intention of landing nor following ATC.
What is harder about flying a Cessna?
1) Lack of power and size, makes it less stable to fly, more prone to weather.
2) No fancy navigation instruments, map, compass, radio, whizwheel, to navigate.
3) No local area radar.
4) No autopilot.
5) Almost no warning indicators of any type.
The reason that pilots do not start out flying 757 has nothing to do with their complexity; it has to do with their expense and the number of passengers. You start out as a 1st officer on a DC-9, which is a much more manual plane to fly, because it is the smallest, cheapest plane that is flown, and you move up from there. You have to amass air hours to get your hands on anything that has more responsibility in way of cost and lives on board. That is besides the fact that every pilot out there would be fighting to get to fly one since the cockpit was large, roomy, comfortable, and sparse, plus it was the most automated, meaning the least amount of work for the pilots.
When I first started at the airport the 757 was one of the newest planes there, and there was one parked at Eastern every night. It was the coolest plane there at the time since it was one of the first to be fly-by-wire and have the glass cockpit. I would talk with the mechanics working on it all the time, and I was told several times by different ones, that the 757 is one of the easiest jets to fly ever made. Vastly overpowered engines, glass cockpit, fly-by-wire, ACARS, you name it. Compared to the 727’s, 737’s, and DC-9’s of the day, it was like a playing a big computer game.
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Exceptionally progressive avionics systems, under which are a slowness platform supported on laser gyroscope and computer are available to you for the flight management system as well as for the digitized air value indication. In the teamwork with automatic flight guidance and thrust control systems (autothrottle) these components cause an optimal fuel consumption. The new avionics generation can take over practically the whole control of a flight, so that the crew functions basically only as a system manager.
Originally posted by mrmakeout
ok. so my question is an easy one to answer
Originally posted by TheShroudOfMemphis
That way they can blame the hijackers and just need to convince people that guys who couldn't fly single engine cesnas could actually pull off the moves that make military pilots scratch their heads.
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The three pilots in Florida continued with their training. Atta and Shehhi
finished up at Huffman and earned their instrument certificates from the FAA
in November. In mid-December 2000, they passed their commercial pilot tests
and received their licenses.They then began training to fly large jets on a flight
simulator. At about the same time, Jarrah began simulator training, also in
Florida but at a different center. By the end of 2000, less than six months after
their arrival, the three pilots on the East Coast were simulating flights on large
jets.
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In the meantime, Jarrah obtained a single-engine private pilot certificate in
early August.
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Despite Hanjour's poor reviews, he did have some ability as a pilot, said Bernard of Freeway Airport. "There's no doubt in my mind that once that [hijacked jet] got going, he could have pointed that plane at a building and hit it," he said.