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Originally posted by William
One question to keep in your mind when you consider this outrageous theory; which billion-person army is going to capture and control a significant percentage of the U.S. population?
[Edited on 18-3-2003 by William]
Originally posted by Gazrok
but it won't work in America...
It may have worked for the Germans with the Jews...but you just wait and see what happens when a soldier tells me to "dig a hole"...I'll bury that shovel right in his head! Sure, I may go down, but I'll take 'em with me! It's that mindset that prevents this sort of thing. Americans are just made of different stock...I firmly believe that, and it was evident on 9/11 when those guys took that plane down instead of letting it get to it's target....
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
Originally posted by Gazrok
but it won't work in America...
It may have worked for the Germans with the Jews...but you just wait and see what happens when a soldier tells me to "dig a hole"...I'll bury that shovel right in his head! Sure, I may go down, but I'll take 'em with me! It's that mindset that prevents this sort of thing. Americans are just made of different stock...I firmly believe that, and it was evident on 9/11 when those guys took that plane down instead of letting it get to it's target....
Yep..they kept it from hitting it's supposed "target" but an entire plane full of people were not able to stop 3-4 people with "box cutters" far enough to save their own lives.
I fully belive that entire plane full of people COULD have (if the story of flight 93 is true) overcome the "armed" hijackers and re-gained control over the cockpit. In such an event, ground controllers could have instructed the passengers on how to operate and land the plane.
Remember, the plane pretty much flies itself w/the onboard avionics...
These people might by some be considered "heros"...
But they ALL still DIED.
Hm
Originally posted by emsed1
reply to post by Candycab
Yes... a PILOT watching over them. I am a pilot with years of both fixed and rotary wing experience.
I have also spent probably hundreds of hours with airliner flight simulators and I can tell you there is absolutely no way anyone that is not a commercial ATP pilot with type-certification on a heavy multi-engine jet that could land it.
Never mind the fact that there is panic, dead bodies, blood, fighting, etc.
Who exactly is going to tell you what to do? Air Traffic controllers don't know how to fly 757s.
How will you talk to somebody? Where is the radio? What channel do you use? Which button do you push to turn on autopilot? How do you push any button when the plane is in a spin/dive with positive and negative G forces flinging you around?
I think you have been watching too many AIRPLANE movies.
It's true that some modern jetliners have autoland procedures, however they have to be programmed in the Flight Management Computer with the specific runway assignment/airport/approach pattern.. etc.
Then the Flight Director, Flight Management Computer, Autopilot and nav system all have to be coupled.
All that aside... how do you even know where you are?
Take a look at this picture and tell me (even without dead bodies, blood, terrorists, spinning/diving G forces) and let me know what button you would push first to land the plane.
Exactly.
You can't.
Never in history has an untrained pilot landed a jetliner by him or herself relying on instructions from air traffic control.
Ever.