Re: World Trade Center & DC?

[Mark Baker <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CamaroGen1@aol.com writes
>          Not nessacarily...once the plane is airborne.....not MUCH 
>    more than 
>    rudementary knowlage of basic aircraft functions would be nessacary 
>    to simply 
>    crash the plane....... 
>
I don't really agree with this. These aren't like the Beechcraft or
Pup's that I've flown before. Faced with the mass of buttons, lights,
dials, &c that is the flight deck is probably enough to un-nerve any
amateur pilot. Anybody with a rudimentary knowledge could probably fly
them straight, but anything beyond that needs some competence even with
all the magic of autopilots.
Three out of the four planes hit their targets, and the fact that the
second aircraft to hit the WTC was turning into its target suggests that
its pilot knew how to handle the craft. I've heard rumours that another
group of arabs arrested allegedly en route to another hijacking included
a qualified pilot.

Working on that assumption, and the requirement to qualify in the
757/767 gives a possible lead to the perpetrators. Some country or
countries must be missing commercial pilots, probably from their state
airline... any such nation has to be a prime suspect.

-- 
Mark Baker
http://www.lange.demon.co.uk/Millenniums_End/ME_Index.html
and visit http://www.the-isg.co.uk/ for the ME London Sourcebook