Conversations with an Airline Pilot about 9/11 (1)
By James Perloff
Since publishing 9/11 Simplified I’ve received emails from six pilots, none of whom accept the official 9/11 story. Two were scheduled to fly in Boeings on the morning of 9/11.
Another is a UK-born pilot with about 20 years of flight experience. He is still actively flying as a captain on Airbus A300s, and spent many years training airline pilots. He has provided me with so many technological insights into aviation and 9/11 that I felt I should publish excerpts from our exchanges.
To keep his identity confidential, I’ll call him “Pilot A.”
Pilot A: Great shows about 9-11 simplified and I agree with most of your analysis so far, so please keep up the good work.
James Perloff: He knew from personal experience that the U.S. government’s theory of how the Twin Towers collapsed is bogus.
Pilot A: I know, like many others do, that heavy fuel like diesel and jet fuel cannot melt steel. Even Oxy-Acetylene or Oxy-Propane cutting torches require large amounts of high pressure oxygen injected into the fuel stream to melt steel, and it takes some time to get thick steel up to a softening/melting state. I went to tech college in the 90s to qualify as a welder and gas cutting was one of the disciplines. I’ve spent countless hours cutting and fabricating steel. I had an experience with an old 600 gallon diesel tank which I was cutting the top off to convert into a storage box. In the bottom below the drain plug level was some remaining fuel and sludge, but as I got about 3/4 of the way through cutting the lid off, the molten metal ignited the fuel in the bottom. The dirty fire that poured out the top burned for about 30 minutes, but the wafer thin (3 mm) steel didn’t even glow.
J P: Pilot A agreed with my article’s 10-point proposal that small nuclear weapons had destroyed the Towers, and also agreed with the thesis that pre-planted thermite had indeed been used at the level of the “airplane strikes.” Most of us in the 9/11 community have seen the famous footage of molten steel dripping from a corner of the South Tower
However, Pilot A had an insight about this I had not thought of.
Pilot A: Now I do think they used thermite as it was probably part of the structural weakening component, but could also have been part of the show to try and prove that “Look, jet fuel does melt steel!”.
J P: In my article I had discussed various evidences against jetliners striking the Towers, such as the uncontrollable speeds, and the impossible physics of an aluminum tail and wings and flying through 14-inch steel columns without breaking off. I had concluded that cloaked missiles, or possibly drones, were better explanations. I ask Pilot A what the likelihood was of commercial jetliners hitting the Towers.
Pilot A: Well, I have a couple of extra variables to your main idea for you to play with so here goes.
If you’re going to plan a dastardly event like a New Pearl Harbour to achieve all the things like more war, military spending, contracts for the corporate criminals, police state etc., then you want as much shock and horror as possible which includes, noise, fire, smoke and destruction on steroids. The planners would need this area of the operation a guaranteed certainty, no chance of foul-ups anywhere, total control, no variables, flawless. You wouldn’t use actual commercial jetliners piloted by humans to achieve this, too much to go wrong. E.g., the pilots could “chicken-out,” miss the towers, partially hit the towers, passengers could over-run the cockpit, the jet fuel might not ignite so no fire and explosion (more on that later), the damage to the building might be too little, pathetically small even, rogue military pilot ignoring orders to buzz off somewhere else might actually shoot the planes down and on and on it goes.
What’s better than planes flying into buildings? The illusion of planes flying into buildings. Especially if it’s a high explosive/incendiary guided missile with some sort of holographic projection device strapped to its back. Better still let’s have 3 or 4 of them for damage consistency to really make a statement. These can be controlled by a central source, have a known and guaranteed outcome because the military has umpteen thousand examples of the destructive power of missiles, and they can be sent to a specific target with pin point accuracy and timing – perfect.
Passenger planes are very difficult to fly accurately with only external visual reference. With no electronic guidance or without heads-up display technology it’s too risky to try and fly into a specific point by line of sight. Not all pilots have the same level of skill or experience, and this sort of thing you only get to practice for real once!! Simulators have their limits as well for this sort of practice.
I can almost see the pilots that have probably tried this in the simulators and predict the outcomes. An educated guess would be overcompensation to try and maintain an accurate flight path at high speed. The air that planes fly through isn’t always constant. There are pools and eddies like a river with rocks, changing currents and speeds. All these require constant adjustment which is easily achieved on approach at 140 knots, with all the control surfaces moving at their full potential and the aircraft slow enough to keep inertia to a minimum. But completely impossible for a novice pilot with only some light aircraft flight experience.
I don’t know how you could do a last-minute modification to a flight path to achieve this accuracy at the speed they were supposedly traveling. Once you get above 200 knots all the moving surfaces (Ailerons, Elevators, Rudder) are in high speed mode and become either artificially loaded or movement restricted to prevent excessive loading and structural damage. If you were slightly off course, you couldn’t make any large corrections to the trajectory at the last minute; everything is done gently.
Plus eye-balling your way around a city you’ve never flown over before (if you believe the Muslim hijacker theory) is near impossible, even for a local city dweller! The city layout is different when looking down on it and the view from the flight deck is very limited, unlike a Cessna which has great views. And traveling at hundreds of knots makes this all the more idiotic to achieve.
So if the planes missed the towers, or partially struck the towers, or the jet fuel failed to ignite, then the Hollywood-style fireball scene is a flop. Jet fuel, which is basically paraffin, needs certain requirements to burn. Unlike the petrol gas (95/98) stuff that you put in your Chevy, Avtur (Aviation Turbine Fuel) won’t ignite if you pour some on the ground and throw a match or lighter into it. I know, I’ve tried it. It usually requires heat (compression chamber) and/or pressure (injector nozzle) to combust.
The likelihood, though, is that it would probably ignite because the engines were hot, but not guaranteed especially if the engines sheared off on the outside of the building. Yet more variables.
But the main problems I have with the plane crashes shown on TV is the lack of fuselage crumpling effect, therefore showing no deceleration at all and the complete melting of the entire machine into the buildings with no debris shattering off on the outside and dropping to the street.
The wing’s strength is primarily in the vertical axis, they’re built for lifting so they would shear off at the root upon contact with anything solid. That large leading-edge surface area and leverage against the wing root would rip them completely off. Try walking through a doorway with your arms stretched out and feel the force on your shoulders as your arms try to go through the wall. Now the fuel tanks might rupture and some of the fuel might go into the building, but no way the entire plane would.
Also airplanes are a semi-monocoque construction like an egg (monocoque) with a frame inside it. But the skin is pulled over the frame under a lot of tension to maintain aerofoil shape and increase strength. But when this highly strung aluminum skin is ruptured; it springs off as the tension is released. In fact it almost explodes off if a large enough area is damaged. Watch the wing and tail of this ATR as it clips a bridge in Taiwan shortly before crashing.
Notice how little damage was done to the bridge, but airplane bits flew everywhere. Essentially, and most people don’t want to hear this, but airplanes are hollow tubes of flying tin foil. They look big and solid from the outside but they’re hollow, light and flimsy in reality. They’re only designed to fly people and cargo around in relatively gentle conditions, but ramming solid objects, even water, will obliterate them. Airplanes literally shatter. They certainly won’t cut through concrete or steel – utter nonsense! No matter what the speed is. Every crash has similar evidence, but not on 9-11; they were super special flying machines on that day! I bet even Boeing and Airbus engineers have scratched many a head and nut since then!
Then there is the preposterous speeds they appeared to fly before hitting the towers, but the real nail in this coffin is “Pinocchio’s Nose,” the clip where one of the aircraft appears to fly right through the building with its nose intact. That did it for me CGI and/or holographic projection the whole show. The nose is fibreglass, always fibreglass so the radar can work. It couldn’t punch through glass and remain intact let alone concrete and steel.
J P: Here is a video that elaborates about the intact nose exiting from the South Tower:
In one email, Pilot A had mentioned that the Boeing Uninterruptible Autopilot system that is apparently fitted to Fly-By-Wire [computer-regulated] aircraft couldn’t be used either because the B757 and B767 [the planes used on 9/11] were conventional aircraft like the A300. FBW only came in with the A320, 330, B777 and later machines.
However, I wanted to pursue the possibility of remote-controlling the planes further with Pilot A, because that theory has long been very popular in the 9/11 Truth community. I pointed out to him that Joe Vialls had proposed this in October 2001, just a month after the tragedy. I also mentioned that Hollywood had dropped hints about it. For example, an electronic hijacking of a plane with the intention of remoting it into the World Trade Center was predicted in the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen, which aired March 4, 2001:
Parts of Pilot A’s reply may contain more technical details than some people want to absorb (in which case they may of course skip ahead), but I believe he resolves this important question.
Pilot A: The article by Vialls, it’s only about 60% accurate when talking about aircraft systems with some very important points left out, either deliberately or through lack of knowledge. We’ve both heard about remote jacking a plane using Home Run or Boeing Uninterruptible Autopilot etc., and theoretically it’s possible in a fly-by-wire (FBW) machine, but physically impossible in a conventional airplane unless some engineer out there wants to explain to me how to overpower my muscles.
Conventional airplanes like the B757, B767, A300, etc. have a control yoke and pedals operating cables running the entire length and width of the airplane to the parallel actuators (hydraulic rams) which are directly connected to the moving surfaces like the elevators, rudder and ailerons. So when the pilot places a physical input into the control column, he is moving that cable along the various pulleys all the way to a lever/switch on the hydraulic rams, which in turn move the flight control surface, e.g. aileron. There are no computers in this basic operation, which is what made the old-generation aircraft so dependable in basic flight handling.
In a FBW system (on the other hand) there are no cables. The pilot has a joystick and when he moves it, it sends an electronic signal to a computer (or series of computers) which in turn decides how much to move the airplane by sending a signal to the hydraulic rams that operate the elevators, etc. Essentially the computer makes a series of logic calculations and has the final word in whether to allow the pilot to manoeuvre the airplane in such a way!
Yes, an early form of Artificial Intelligence, whereby the box decides how to fly the airplane. Same goes for the rudder pedals and thrust lever setup. So this could theoretically be hacked, but it wouldn’t come through the transponder system [as Joe Vialls had proposed in 2001] because that is easily switched off; it would more likely come to the Flight Management System (FMS) which has inputs from the many sources, but a main component is the GPS system. The GPS is essential in modern jets for Navigation, updating the aircraft’s position relative to the Earth, etc. The GPS antennae are hard-wired into the FMS and other systems like clocks, Inertial Navigation System (INS) and so on. I think this is the route that hackers would take, so who controls the GPS satellite data could theoretically control the airplane. The pilots could be locked out of the control loop of the airplane.
As far as data is available, there was only one B757 that was converted to FBW and it was a Boeing test subject and not released into production. It was essentially a Boeing plaything to see how to redesign their machines for the B777 onwards. Boeing have always been behind Airbus in technology, which is why the A300B4 (70s design) was the first semi-glass cockpit to enter production. Boeing copied it and put their own glass tech into their 757 and 767 later, but they were all conventional control machines. Then Airbus created the A320, the first FBW machine, and Boeing copied it with their B777. To back this up, our A300s were fresh off the Airbus factory floor in 2005, and they were not converted to FBW because the redesign and approval costs would be enormous. “Don’t fix what isn’t broken.” Redesigning an airplane is a major expense and Airbus would not do this to the A300, neither would Boeing for further productions of B757, 767 etc. It’s cheaper to design a whole new beasty with more advanced tech in other areas too and get a complete new approval.
I hope this clears it up, but I’m 99% sure that the planes on 9-11 were conventional airplanes, making it impossible to hack them from a remote source.
However, as Joseph P. Farrell would say, the “hi-octane speculation” of tech outside of our grasp like tractor beams, George Lucas Star Wars stuff, but I think Occam’s razor still prevails here until new evidence emerges maybe in the future to throw all this into a tailspin again!
That episode of The Lone Gunmen could be another predictive programming event. Who controls Hollywood? Could this plan have been in the works many years earlier, and they were already planting the official narrative into people’s minds, so that they could accept the lies as truth later on?
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February 8, 2019