[41725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Analysis from a JHU CS Prof
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petr Swedock)
Wed Sep 12 00:57:50 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:26:24 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Petr Swedock <petr@ai.mit.edu>
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: >Also, it's worth remembering that airplanes aren't all that easy to
: > fly. This means that the perpetrators needed to find five adequate
: > pilots,
: Hmm. not actually sure about this - not having ever flown anything at
: all, but how much skill exactly does it take to keep something already
: pointed in more or less the right direction on target for two-three
: minutes until impact? ok, you couldn't expect a clean landing or even a
: halfway-smooth flight path from someone who has played a MS-Windows
: flight sim for a few months, but - if he was going from switching off
: autopilot to keeping the plane pointed at something the size of the
: WTC....... I would imagine it would all be on the yoke too, no throttles
: or concerns about airspeed given you are not really going to care that
: much what speed or acceleration you have on impact...
The planes were hijacked with knives and re-routed over large
distances: which leads me to believe the original pilots were
long dead.
The two towers were struck with great precision: it's not as
easy as it sounds.
The pentagon was *landed* on... in a most precise manner: It
takes a hell of a flyer to put a plane down like that.
There were no fly-bys and/or go-rounds.
There were no near misses.
There is no doubt in my mind that those in control of the
planes were skilled pilots.
Peace,
Petr
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