Hijacker Pilots or Remote Control?
While remote control of the planes on 9/11 certainly seems like the most likely explanation for what happened, unfortunately there is no way to prove this with what is in the public record.
I do know that over ten years ago, I was getting on a commercial plane and somebody was telling me the airlines had the technology to fly commerical aircraft by remote control. And the question was why did they have pilots, and we all thought the pilots were a human safeguard, and that people wouldn't feel comfortable flying with only a machine keeping us safe.
And certainly with the global hawk and predator drones, there is ample reason to believe remote control flying is possible.
By all accounts, all of the hijackers, with the possible exception of Mohammed Atta, were very poor pilots. Unless this is disinfo (which we can't rule out but seems unlikely). If someone like Hani Hanjour really couldn't fly, couldn't pass his pilot's exam-- then there is every reason to think someone else was flying flight 77, especially given the tricky maneuvering that plane did. But who else would have flown a plane into a building if not a suicidal muslim fanatic?
This is why remote control flying is a powerful explanation.
It is also not clear how the CIA would recruit and train muslim arab pilots with the pilots knowing they would die in their mission. This is possible of course, but somehow it doesn't seem very likely.
The problem is that there just isn't enough known about how the hijackings worked. There is not enough data to make firm conclusions, and I'm sure that's the way the planners want it.
I do know that over ten years ago, I was getting on a commercial plane and somebody was telling me the airlines had the technology to fly commerical aircraft by remote control. And the question was why did they have pilots, and we all thought the pilots were a human safeguard, and that people wouldn't feel comfortable flying with only a machine keeping us safe.
And certainly with the global hawk and predator drones, there is ample reason to believe remote control flying is possible.
By all accounts, all of the hijackers, with the possible exception of Mohammed Atta, were very poor pilots. Unless this is disinfo (which we can't rule out but seems unlikely). If someone like Hani Hanjour really couldn't fly, couldn't pass his pilot's exam-- then there is every reason to think someone else was flying flight 77, especially given the tricky maneuvering that plane did. But who else would have flown a plane into a building if not a suicidal muslim fanatic?
This is why remote control flying is a powerful explanation.
It is also not clear how the CIA would recruit and train muslim arab pilots with the pilots knowing they would die in their mission. This is possible of course, but somehow it doesn't seem very likely.
The problem is that there just isn't enough known about how the hijackings worked. There is not enough data to make firm conclusions, and I'm sure that's the way the planners want it.
posted by spooked at 9:44 AM
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