On Tuesday 11 September 2001 18:55 pm, dep wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2001 18:36, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> | If you put your 5 yr old son behind the wheel of car (airplane) in
> | the empty parking lot of a shopping mall (the sky), got the car
> | moving (takeoff) and told him to "drive into store xyz" (the
> | WTC), don't you think he could do it?
> |
> | It's the same with a heavy jet. Once it is in the vicinity of the
> | WTC, it just takes some control movements to accomplish the task.
> | A few hours of training is all that is required.
>
> entirely untrue. driving an airplane is not at all like driving a
> car. while i agree that the people riding yoke at the times of the
> crashes were not the pilots of record, the people who were flying
> were pilots, and pretty good ones.
Then we agree to disagree... My qualifications: Commercial pilot/flight
instructor, instrument 2,500 hours.
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