I find it kind of crazy that anyone with any kind of a physics background would agree with the major conclusions of the 9/11 report unless they were in denial. In fact, I think that the attorneys for one of the major insurers for the buildings had done such a great job in their discovery process that they were suing Saudi Arabia. They did *too* good a job. Then the whole case just vaporized.
Kind of like the underwear bomber. That case just quietly went away too. There was an attorney that wanted to testify in court that he specifically saw the underwear bomber be escorted onto the plane by some kind of black suited "fed" when the airline personnel would not let them on. It's changed the course of airline travel to the PITA it is today. The attorney never got to testify. The case vaporized with the guy representing himself and pleading guilty.
While I can't say that Phil actually "proves" his ideas (how can he), he builds enough of a plausible framework that others will be able to follow on and fill out and further his main ideas. It's a major break in the "wall". Just like a researcher does in science. The early people take the arrows in the back and later people figure it out. We once fully believed the earth was flat and that it was the center of the universe. But those early guys probably got burned at the stake for such blasphemy.
The architects and engineers who've questioned the official story have it right. They aren't even saying they know what happened! They are saying that more work needs to be done and a "real" investigation needs to be done because the current one is a crock. But it will never be done while the people currently in power are in power. Maybe post American Civil War (the one still coming) if anyone still cares by then.
I pretty much have as much *official* air time as the terrorist pilots in 9/11 did.
As for myself, being a private pilot trained in the exact same planes with the same skill sets and training that the terrorists had (well, okay, I never took "Boxcutters as a Weapons 101") I can say that it would be utterly impossible for me to do what the terrorists did.
And if there were any real terrorists that would have an inkling of what was going to happen on 9/11 I bet they would have LOVED to have loaded up a 727 with C4 and timed it so that it followed on the tail of the plane that hit the pentagon with a TOTALLY unobstructed run into the pentagon end zone! They would have taken out the WHOLE pentagon instead of just a wall. What a coup that would have been! There was only one day that could happen: 9/11/2001. Never before, never since.
One of the things people who are not pilots completely fail to realize (because they've never done it) is that when you're up in the air at 5,000+ feet, it looks completely foreign. You have no idea of where you are or where you are going because you have never seen the world from that perspective before. You have no idea what is what until you stare for a while and re-piece together what you are looking at from the new perspective. It takes some getting used to and without autopilot for a straight shot, you tend to follow known landmarks - like freeways and roads - if you can. Even then, when you look down for the first time on a road you've driven your **entire** life, you don't even know what it is. Is that a freeway or a major street? Oh, wait.... That's the wrong highway, I thought it was XXXX, that not, that's XXXX instead.
Unless the terrorists had specifically flown those routes before (and maybe they did) in planes under visual flight rule to become accustomed to the geography, they would have no idea of where they were nor where they were going. Any more than if I took anyone reading this and dumped you in the middle of any of a million National Forests and said, "Here is your compass, navigate to this spot. Sorry, I won't give you a map though. You won't be able to read it or understand it anyway." I am betting 99 percent wouldn't even have a clue on where to start adn the other 1 percent would fail along the way - it's daunting.
Whoever flew those planes had LOTS of training in both the planes and usage of the planes avionics. That had to come from somewhere they never had access to by the official story. It's waaaaaaay beyond beginning pilot skills.
And if they learned to use the planes avionics and nav. Where in the world did they pick that up? I couldn't do it and again, I have as much training as they did. They would know enough for basic steering and that is about it. If the building was in the path ahead they could control well enough to hit a target but that is not what happened. They could maybe even land enough on their own with some kind of minor to total wreck. Anything more is absurd.
Though I guess they could be coached on a flight simulator over several months of VERY specific step by step instruction. Much like memorizing a very specific song on the piano key by key but that is the only song you can play because that's all you know! Ask them to play something else and they have no idea of where to start because they don't even know notes.
Phil does a pretty good job of connecting dots which may or may not be overreaching but **IS** close enough to help someone else get the ball rolling to follow up and further his work. Just like Jim Garrison did during the Kennedy assassination. No one wanted to hear what he had to say. (And he was pretty well muzzled by those in power.)
What the 9/11 report indicates is akin to saying that a freshman in medical school was able to VERY satisfactorily complete a 4 hour open heart surgery on their own after only one or two semesters of study. I'm sorry, stuff like that just does not happen. To say it does is crazy but that's exactly what the 9/11 report says. Phil points out from the avionic perspective how complex the "4 hour heart surgery" was that the terrorists pulled off. It's nuts to think they could do it. Now it might be able to teach someone how to do an exact type of open heart surgery (only) in a year if that's all you teach them over and over and over and over. I don't know. But that's not a freshman with only a semester or two under their belt figuring it out on their own. It's some highly specific training.
And I will say that Phil's account of it is a whole lot more plausible than saying that I could do what the terrorists did because I know it would be 99.99999% impossible for me to do. I'll leave some room for it being possible because there is no such thing as absolutes.
I actually think Phil's stuff made a whole lot of sense. And some may be reaching but most makes sense. Others can confirm as they now know where to look. Even at its worst, it made a LOT more sense than the 9/11 report. The one thing he did provide is a framework for others to follow up on and extend - regardless as to whether he could "prove" his ideas or not. Kind of "the solving of the rest of the exercise is left to the student".
I would love to have known what new info Phil was going to spill that got himself killed. He never should have told a soul in advance. Just published it. I'm guessing someone who read his last book knew something and gave him a tip on where to look so he did.
Hopefully, Phil was smart enough to provide a "backup" to his work. Since he was (rightfully) admittedly paranoid, I am guessing that he did. I doubt he ever expected his family to be taken out too, though. That was probably a "shot across the bow" to other people who wanted to follow his path. But so many 9/11 researchers have "committed suicide" it's not even funny. Even after they've said, "I am absolutely and positively not suicidal" because they know what happens. Still, they do their duty regardless as to the cost they know they'll pay.
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