Fred,
It is not a matter of anyone "accepting what I say". It was the
flight schools that said Hanjour wasn't even competent enough to handle a Cessna, it was a flight school that submitted a report to the FAA on the grounds that they thought his "pilot's license" was fake due to his lack of ability, and it was a flight school that refused to rent him a small plane.
http://www.newsday.com/ny-usflight232380680sep23.story
It was
air traffic controllers that stated that they thought that what was believed to be flight 77 on the radar was moving and maneuvering like a military jet. Not
me ...
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane" - Danielle O'Brien, Air Traffic Controller, Dulles.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/2020_011024_atc_feature.html
It was eye witnesses that have stated that the aircraft that struck the Pentagon came sweeping in at ground level, and eye witnesses like O'Keefe that saw a second aircraft right behind it. I have worked around alot of C-130s and would not mistake one for anything else. O'Keefe evidently was at least familiar with them as well, and even if it was not, it could only have been confused with a similar large four-prop of similar size.
Have you ever flown a plane? I have. It takes an element of skill to keep even a small single engine prop like a Cessna in a smooth and safe flying attitude because of the multi-elements of maintaining straight and level flight. There is pitch, yaw, horizon, roll, etc. Then there is rate of turn, loading factors, and constants that must be observed such as airspeed. For instance, when a plane is banked past a certain point in a turn there are factors which must be taken into account or it is easy to get into trouble fast. And then there is atmospheric wind speed and direction, changes etc. So Hanjour, who was not even able to fly a Cessna safely, flew a 757 like a military jet?
O'Brien's testimony (and those who saw it fly in a ground level) indicate that whoever was flying the aircraft that is claimed to have struck the Pentagon was an experienced and extraordinary pilot. Ask some experienced airline pilots what
they think of it when all of this juxtaposed with what the flight schools said of Hanjour. Ask them what they thought of the footage of the aircraft that hit the WTC. One factor that is very evident is that they were being flown with an element of
precision. They were not under the control of "student" pilots.
There is another issue with Hanjour's flight, and that is one of navigation. Using IFR is no easy task, yet Hanjour is alleged to have navigated a 757 off it's scheduled flightpath, found a course in the direction of the WH, then pulled an abrupt and spectacular 360, and vectored in to the Pentagon precisely in a rapid descent and came in at ground level. A Pan Am international Flight Academy employee said that Hanjour took three hours over a twenty minute problem and still gave the wrong answer in a test.
To quote another flight school employee of Pan Am International Flight Academy in Phoenix; "I'm still to this day amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon," the former employee said. "
He could not fly at all."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/national/04ARIZ.html?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/national/main310721.shtml