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Originally Posted by coldwar
Incredible! So if it's this complicated to keep a big plane on course and oriented correctly, could somebody explain it to me again how a bunch of terrorists with no real flight experience, and with navigation transponders switched off, managed to hit three targets so accurately on 9-11? The Pentagon one is especially mind-boggling as it needed such a long run-in at nearly ground level. Who was doing such a good job at compensating for wind direction on that one?  |
Well, my take is as follows: the VAST majority of the time pilots get their landings right, so while it's very difficult and nerve-wracking, I'm sure, it's far from impossible. Plus, those 9/11 goofs weren't landing airplanes, they were crashing them, so whether they were "crabbed" approaches or not didn't much matter.
One of the pilots in this thread will chime in and set us straight, hopefully. They're the ones to ask. I can tell you about flap overspeed inspections and servicing landing gear snubbers, rigging flight control cables, etc..., but none of the exciting stuff. 8^)
Chris