Harmon Seaver wrote:
"Raymond D. Mereniuk" wrote:
I don't see where only a terrorist group backed by the resources of a national government could pull this off. A week or two for planning and a group of people who can keep their mouth's shut plus the most important quality, big gonads and a desire to die for a perceived purpose.
So right -- all these people talking about "it had to be a big, well funded, well organized group with lots of resources" are talking total nonsense. It could have been a tiny cadre of eight or twelve people with no more money than to buy some plane tickets. Flying a plane doesn't take a heck of lot either, once it's in the air.
A friend of mine wonders if they had a Boeing flight simulator. Apparently they would need to know how to disable the autopilot and do a couple of other technobabble things a groundling like me doesn't recognise. But with access to a training simulator they could learn enough in a few days. Or so I am told. I suppose such machines are all over the place these days, Boeing having more or less a monopoly on medium-large commercial passenger planes. So there could be training facilities just about anywhere. I have no real idea how rare and/or expensive they would be. Ken