I'm not really concerned about where he was aiming. It's the maneuver he made to begin with that I find incredible.
The fact that it's admittedly "very hard" to pull off is what interests me. It's very hard for someone with experience in that type of aircraft. Hanjour had zero experience but managed to pull off something damn near impossible.
I also find it extremely odd that he had that much time and freedom to do all of this in the most protected air space in the world, over the most protected land area in the world, without even the slightest bit of opposition from anything the government has at it's disposal.
You don't find anything worth questioning about that? One has to be a kook to question that? I'm shocked that anyone WOULDNT question that.
No.
We haven't had a hijacking in the US for nearly 30 years. So when there is a hijacking, I would expect some confusion; no matter how many hours of training have been done. We have hurricanes nearly every year in the US for example. Seldom (if ever) do you not hear about some cluster-f**k, some problems in the supply chain, some problems in command and control, etc... This is a yearly, predictable disaster that happens in the same places in the same season. Yet we still can't get them right.
What you're expecting is a robust response to a totally foreign incident. Ain't gonna happen.
When you add in that the NE United States is the most heavily traveled air corridor in the country (if not the world) and you have 4 planes out of several hundred that are airborne and you're expecting an interdiction, I think you're unrealistic in your expectations.
I'm not sure why you think he had "zero" experience. He had flown before.
I'm not sure why you think it is protected air space. The White House air space is but planes take off over the Pentagon every day.
I'm not sure why you think it is "impossible", it's very hard yes. Theres a reason 3 of the largest buildings in the world were hit, so they can see them from the air. He overshot it and turned into it.
If you don't think it happened as it was stated in the 9/11 Commission Report, what do you think happened?