Man, I just used MS Flight Simulator 2000 to recreate one of the flights into the WTC...

KDOG

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Good God....I took off from JFK and headed north then turned around.... My heart LITERALLY started pounding as the towers came into view... I struck the one with the aerial about 20 floors from the top. I got a chilling feeling right before impact. I don't understand how some one could really do it. Then I thought another thought ... imagine the people sitting in thier offices lookin out the window and seeing the plane coming... What could you do?
 

ERJ

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I feel so bad. When I was younger, back in the days of flight sim 2 or 3 I remember taking a few dives into the Sears tower / TWC. Of course that was with a single engine prop that would bounce off. It was about the only fun I would have back then with that game. Not so funny anymore.

ERJ
 

Kipper

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Trust me, if you were: A. a complete religious fanatic bent on mass destruction to convert people and convince them of a "second coming." B. Clinically insane. C. A terrorist whose purpose was to destroy as much as possible in the most efficient and effective way possible, it would be completely within your ability to do so.

Basically, these guys were so psycho about what they were doing that committing an act as obscenely horrendous as crashing a fully-loaded commercial jet liner into a skyscraper was within their ability...
 

metallibloke

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<< Basically, these guys were so psycho about what they were doing that committing an act as obscenely horrendous as crashing a fully-loaded commercial jet liner into a skyscraper was within their ability... >>



You're right, but its still so hard to imagine that they could be so messed up to do something like that.
 

nubbie

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<< Good God....I took off from JFK and headed north then turned around.... My heart LITERALLY started pounding as the towers came into view... I struck the one with the aerial about 20 floors from the top. I got a chilling feeling right before impact. I don't understand how some one could really do it. Then I thought another thought ... imagine the people sitting in thier offices lookin out the window and seeing the plane coming... What could you do? >>


Hmm, nothing! THey did not have a chace!
 

DefRef

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If you think about it, it didn't hurt them a bit. One moment they were plowing the plane into the WTC, the next...they're BURNING IN HELL!!!!!!!! (That's when the pain started.)
 

iamshady

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<< If you think about it, it didn't hurt them a bit. One moment they were plowing the plane into the WTC, the next...they're BURNING IN HELL!!!!!!!! (That's when the pain started.) >>



Very very true...
 

Yo Ma Ma

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I'm not sure which would be worse, to be in the 1st bldg and have it be totally unexpected, or in the middle of evacuating 2nd bldg and then get hit with a 2nd plane :( How horrifying.