Post by tankcommander on Sept 11, 2012 6:46:51 GMT -8
I would like to fly in a professional like manners one of the big airliners. I have to made my mind which of the followwing: Boeing 747, 757, 767, 777 and or Airbus A300 (it will depend on the cost and which one is easiest to learn).The level I would like to achieve is to be able to takeoff and land, to handle communication with ATC, to be able to successfully navigate from A to B (JFK to Heathrow for example). In a sense to be able to pilot one of these Big Bird, even if I am not a real professional pilot.
— Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, in a 2001 letter written to the Pan Am International flight academy. They guessed him to be a rich playboy, but when when they started training him they called the FBI. Reported (with his exact misspellings) by the New York Times, 8 February 2002.
I knew he wasn't real pilot material — he had actually studied his manuals and didn't talk about girls.
— Flight Instructor Clancy Prevost, regards his experience with Zacarias Moussaoui. Reported in Newsweek, October 2002.
Either end your life while praying, seconds before your target, or make your last words: 'There is no God but Allah, Mohammad is His messenger.'
— translated from written instructions for Mohamed Atta, the terrorist at the controls of AA flight 11.
The cockpit is not answering their phone and there's somebody stabbed in business class and there’s, we can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got Mace or something.
— Betty Ong. American Airlines flight attendant, AA Flight 11, phone call to AA reservations. 11 September 2011.
We have some planes. Just stay quiet and we’ll be O.K. We are returning to the airport. . . Nobody move, everything will be O.K. If you try to make any moves, you will injure yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.
— Mohamed Atta, hijacker on American Airlines flight 11, heard over Boston Center ATC frequency. Note use of the plural, 'planes.' 08:24 East Coast time, 11 September 2011.
Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New — New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out.
— Joseph Cooper, Boston Center air traffic controller, phone call to Sgt. Jeremy Powell at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), alerting them of a suspected hijacking of American Airlines flight 11. 08:37 East Coast time, 11 September 2011.
This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.
— Jeremy Powell, NORAD commander Northest Air Defense Sector, ordering two pilots at Otis Air Force Base, Cape Cod, MA, to scramble. 08:41 East Coast time, 11 September 2011.
What do I tell the pilots to do?
— CNN commentator Barbara Olson, passenger on American Airlines flight 77, cell phone call to her husband Justice Department official Theodore Olson, 11 September 2001.
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
— Madeline Amy Sweeney, American Airlines flight attendant, end of her phone call to supervisor Michael Woodward describing the hijacking of AA flight 11. She provided many important details before the plane was crashed into the World Trade Center, 11 September
A group of us are going to do something.
— Thomas E. Burnett Jr., Thoratec Corporation senior vice president and passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, cell phone call to his wife, 11 September 2001.
We're going to rush the hijackers.
— Jeremy Glick, software executive and passenger on United flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call, 11 September 2001.
Are you guys ready? Let's roll.
— Todd Beamer, Oracle software executive and passenger on United flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call to Lisa Jefferson, a GTC telephone switchboard operator (he didn't want to worry his pregnant wife). They talked for 13 minutes, during which they discussed the hijacking and recited together the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 — 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.' 11 September 2001.
They're coming.
— voice in Arabic, reportedly toward the to end of the United flight 93 CVR. 11 September 2001.
Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?
— Georgia Senator Zell Miller, during debate in the U.S. Senate regards approving guns in cockpits. September 2002.
— Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, in a 2001 letter written to the Pan Am International flight academy. They guessed him to be a rich playboy, but when when they started training him they called the FBI. Reported (with his exact misspellings) by the New York Times, 8 February 2002.
I knew he wasn't real pilot material — he had actually studied his manuals and didn't talk about girls.
— Flight Instructor Clancy Prevost, regards his experience with Zacarias Moussaoui. Reported in Newsweek, October 2002.
Either end your life while praying, seconds before your target, or make your last words: 'There is no God but Allah, Mohammad is His messenger.'
— translated from written instructions for Mohamed Atta, the terrorist at the controls of AA flight 11.
The cockpit is not answering their phone and there's somebody stabbed in business class and there’s, we can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got Mace or something.
— Betty Ong. American Airlines flight attendant, AA Flight 11, phone call to AA reservations. 11 September 2011.
We have some planes. Just stay quiet and we’ll be O.K. We are returning to the airport. . . Nobody move, everything will be O.K. If you try to make any moves, you will injure yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.
— Mohamed Atta, hijacker on American Airlines flight 11, heard over Boston Center ATC frequency. Note use of the plural, 'planes.' 08:24 East Coast time, 11 September 2011.
Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New — New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out.
— Joseph Cooper, Boston Center air traffic controller, phone call to Sgt. Jeremy Powell at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), alerting them of a suspected hijacking of American Airlines flight 11. 08:37 East Coast time, 11 September 2011.
This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.
— Jeremy Powell, NORAD commander Northest Air Defense Sector, ordering two pilots at Otis Air Force Base, Cape Cod, MA, to scramble. 08:41 East Coast time, 11 September 2011.
What do I tell the pilots to do?
— CNN commentator Barbara Olson, passenger on American Airlines flight 77, cell phone call to her husband Justice Department official Theodore Olson, 11 September 2001.
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
— Madeline Amy Sweeney, American Airlines flight attendant, end of her phone call to supervisor Michael Woodward describing the hijacking of AA flight 11. She provided many important details before the plane was crashed into the World Trade Center, 11 September
A group of us are going to do something.
— Thomas E. Burnett Jr., Thoratec Corporation senior vice president and passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, cell phone call to his wife, 11 September 2001.
We're going to rush the hijackers.
— Jeremy Glick, software executive and passenger on United flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call, 11 September 2001.
Are you guys ready? Let's roll.
— Todd Beamer, Oracle software executive and passenger on United flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call to Lisa Jefferson, a GTC telephone switchboard operator (he didn't want to worry his pregnant wife). They talked for 13 minutes, during which they discussed the hijacking and recited together the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 — 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.' 11 September 2001.
They're coming.
— voice in Arabic, reportedly toward the to end of the United flight 93 CVR. 11 September 2001.
Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?
— Georgia Senator Zell Miller, during debate in the U.S. Senate regards approving guns in cockpits. September 2002.