Do you think the average person would have the skills to fly an airliner into the 911 buildings?

World Trade Center: Yes
Pentagon: Absolutely Not
White House: Not even close

My reasons are based on the 50 hours I have in a Cessna 172.

The World Trade Center was a large vertical target. An airliner can be steered left, right, and down without a lot of talent I suppose. The towers could be seen from a long distance, so plenty of adjustments could be made along the way.

The Pentagon, on the other hand, is just about a flat target. That is a COMPLETELY different set of circumstances with no room for error. If you asked me beforehand I would have guaranteed that no student pilot would hit that building in a million years.

Student pilots CONSTANTLY land small airplanes way down the runway past the numbers. The simple reason is that when you point the nose down the plane goes faster and it’s really easy to overshoot.

I seriously believe that any student trying to hit the Pentagon with an airliner on the first try would miss long by a mile or two
I’m just trying to understand how a student pilot (they were only students at best) could be so accurate with no skill, under enormous kamikaze pressure.

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