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Daniel Hopsiker interviewed a flight instructor who wasn't very impressed with the flying skills of the one pilot he was training, Hani Hanjour, alleged by your source to be the most experienced pilot of the bunch.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by ipsedixit
Daniel Hopsiker interviewed a flight instructor who wasn't very impressed with the flying skills of the one pilot he was training, Hani Hanjour, alleged by your source to be the most experienced pilot of the bunch.
Why is this little tidbit always the one to keep coming up? Didn't Hopsiker interview anyone else, any other CFIs who had contact with Hanjour, or for that matter, with any of the others?
My understanding is Hanjour, and others, trained in Pipers, mostly. Hanjour wanted to rent a Cessna, a 172 to be precise. Now, it is not a complicated machine, the 172, but it is different in some aspects to someone who was only familiar with the Piper...like a Warrior, or whatever he learned in and built his time in.
We know his English sucked, and he likely was a very, very marginal pilot, at best, when it came to the myriad tasks and procedures involved in flying, from pre-flight, starting the engine, taxiing, radio techniques, airwork, and, landings. To a crappy pilot used to a Piper, he'd not be accustomed to the feel of the 172, especially the elevator...it flies like a brick, as some would say. I'm sure he hit the nosewheel so many times the CFI said 'no go' to his desire to rent.
Heck, when I was a CFI I saw it quite often...guy comes in, wants to rent, and you end up giving him an hour of instruction that he should have got from someone else. AND these were Americans! Licensed! Who spoke fluent English!
But, I digress. In the B757, Hanjour merely had to know to operate the Mode Control Panel and through that, the AutoPilot. Shoot, they can train monkeys to push buttons in the right sequence! MicroSoft Flight Sim has programs that will familiarize you with it.
All he had to do, once in the vicinity, is spot the Pentagon (easy, it's real big!) fly around it, circle back, descend, point and whammo!
Originally posted by weedwhacker
All he had to do, once in the vicinity, is spot the Pentagon (easy, it's real big!) fly around it, circle back, descend, point and whammo!
......the most secure building on the planet gets circled by some terrorists and allowed to smash into it.....
This guy, an airline pilot who actually flew two of the planes involved in 9/11, doesn't agree with you about how easy it would be to execute the Pentagon manouver.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Originally posted by Crakeur
Can't the real investigation focus on how this happened, not focus on coming up with some of the most inane and ridiculous propaganda around?
If so, then I'm guilty of bringing out nothing but pure fiction and nonsense! This thread therefore may kindly be closed. Thanks!
Cheers!
Originally posted by Nutter
Originally posted by mmiichael
Just checked. The 4 9/11 pilots were trained and licensed in the US between 1999 and 2000. One had a commercial pilot's license, 3 other private pilot's licenses.
And my point still stands. How does one become a licensed pilot (commercial in one case) that doesn't have the training to even land the darn plane?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by mikesingh
Let me see if I get all of what you're theorizing.
The heavily accented voice (presumed to be Atta, AAL11) when he thinks he's on the PA, but keys the mic on the ATC frequency, telling the passengers that he is 'captain' now, and 'we have some planes'...that Atta and company were stooges? What I mean is, this notion that you dupe the Arabs, tell them to hijack, and they don't know they're gonna die, because the "Jooooos" are going to remotely take over the airplanes and crash them?
What story were the Arabs told? Extortion? Prisoner swap?
The sounds on the UAL93 voice recorder, at the cockpit intrusion..."Hey! Get outta here!..." etc. The chanting in Arabic as the United was being intentionally flown into the ground after the passengers rose up.
You see, there are contradictions to your theory that you may wish to reconcile, if you can.
My battery is low, so I'll wrap up (for now) with this: As to the C-130 airborne remote control platform --- you will have to show evidence of such an airplane (well, two actually) being n the air in the vicinity of NYC that morning.
Also, look up a paper titled "Human Factors in UAV Flight" It can be found at faa.gov.
Thanks.
This whole issue of 911 and responses to it are so sad. As to 'tapes' and other audio 'evidence'- I can't believe you could be serious. I do audio engineering among other things at my employment, and I could have you ( yes , PROVEN to be you in a court of law ) say pretty much anything I want if I can only record your speech for a couple of moments. It would help if I owned a telecommunications business...
Ah, people have no idea how bad it really is .
How long has it been since that movie with Gene Hackman, ' Enemy of the Strate' ? ' Wag the Dog' ?
We are hopeful, and just don't want to believe it.
But, we're always shown both sides of the coin... the Mask has two sides.
Who are these people who actually claim ( with a straight face ) to be descendents of Juda- one of the true low-lifes of the Torah ( old testament ) ?