On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:58:47 +0100, you wrote: > >>Thats a very uninformed opinion you are offering. Did you not see any >>of the reports about how much it would cost to train people to fly >>those airplanes? Real flight simulators cost major, major bucks, and >>it costs about 50k to send someone to a school that has one. > >I wish it was uninformed.... but it's not. I think the discovery of the >flight manuals in the car >found at the airport illustrates how basic the knowledge they had was. >It dosen't cost much to learn to fly a basic plane. Sure, if you want to >become a fully fledged pilot for a commercial airline it takes thousands of >hours flight time and thousands of dollars. >But if you simply need to know the basics a few lessons at your local school >and a couple of hundred dollars would suffice. Believe me keeping a 767 in >the air and doing basic guidance isn't much different to doing it in a >Cessna. i.e. Pointing it at something and crashing it is easy. >Landing it safely and following all the charts and guidelines is more >difficult. Yeah, I heard about that...but while you might convince me about slamming into the side of the WTC towers being not that difficult, hitting the Pentagon as they did would certainly require a measure of expertise. > >Anyway I don't think they knew much about aviation.... >I know commercial pilots are trained to do what hijackers want to keep >situations calm and under control. I imagine the jackers asked them to fly >down the coast and once near NY I suspect they removed the pilots and guided >the aircraft themselves. I think this partly because of the third and fourth >aircrafts didn't do the damage they potentially could have done. > > >>Based on evidence? Thats lip service, no more, designed solely to keep >>Afghanistan out of the line of fire. I'm not saying we should bomb >>them or anything, but I certainly don't believe a word of what the >>Taleban has to say. Call me a knee-jerk Yank if you will... > >I'm not taking your right to be angry away..... go on be angry.... everyones >angry. Most of the world infact. >I don't think US citizens know quite how Upset, Shocked and Angry people in >other parts of the world are. We're f**ing fuming! >Just remember the world is watching and pretty much everyone has condemned >this act. If the US gov acts too hastily it will lose some of that support. >Imagine what could be done with 80%+ of the worlds governments on it's side. >That's enough to turn lip service into action.... even if the Taleban had no >intention of handing bin laden over. Simply blowing up some afgans up >innocent or not >will just draw more people to bin laden's cause.... and reaffirm some >Islamic peoples beliefs that the western world hate and despise them. Unfortunately, right now they are more right about that than they were two days ago... > >Anyway I'm finished that's my last word..... back to ontopic. > Understand, I wasn't ripping you with my previous post, just offering my opinion...
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