Just imagine what would have happened if the passengers had
been armed and killed the hijackers as soon as they began
the hijacking?



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"Richard Lamb" wrote in message
nk.net...
| Chad Irby wrote:
|
| In article
,
| "Bob Gardner" wrote:
|
|
| I have had the opportunity to fly both 737 and 747
simulators at the Boeing
| Training Center and at Flight Safety. I have had no
training in the
| operation of heavy jets...I just applied the knowledge I
had gained from
| flying cabin twins. In these full-motion sims I have
flown patterns to
| ILS's. I have no problem with the possibility of the
hijackers being able to
| do what they obviously did.
|
|
| Aiming a big, stable plane at a building over a thousand
feet tall and a
| couple of hundred feet wide isn't anything like a hard
trick, and they
| still almost screwed it up (note the severe bank when
the second plane
| hits, as the pilot tries to keep from missing).
|
| Consider how much worse it might have been if he had just
caught the edge of
| the building and sprayed a full load of flaming fuel and
wreckage all over the
| city.
|
| Grim, me thinks.
|