It's on page 272 of my copy (or look up Alhazmi flight training in the index).

The word is not actually in a quote from the flight instructor, but is used by the authors (Miller et al.) to paraphrase him. The flight instructor, Arnaud Petit, actually said "He was able to take off and land nearly on his own. I thought he'd come back but he didn't. He was very excited after that first flight."

Alhazmi later had two other short lessons at another training centre, after which he was described as "dumb" and where he did not perform very well. My understanding is that when he was trying to land, Almihdhar was praying loudly for Allah to save him in the rear seat, which may have put him off a bit. It is also Almihdhar who drew the wings on backwards, not Alhazmi.

I doubt these three lessons in San Diego were enough for him to learn to fly a Boeing 757, but if he did fly Flight 77 (and I'm not saying he did), then he must have had more training they are not telling us about.

"How could the planes be controlled from the ground if the maneuver is sophisticated for a pilot?"

Remote controlled probably includes the ability to guide the plane according to coordinates and destination. It's my suspicion that it would not resemble a huge remote control plane but more like a pre-plotted strike right into the reinforced wedge. That is what I imagine because computer sophistication/technology use a combo of hardware and software. Just like the anti-aircraft missle batteries would be using a combo of hardware and software. /my2¢

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"It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular." (Hillary

"I flew the two actual aircraft which were involved in 9/11... Fight number 175 and Flight 93, the 757 that allegedly went down in Shanksville and Flight 175 is the aircraft that's alleged to have hit the South Tower. I don't believe it's possible for... a so-called terrorist to train on a 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it's design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns,.. pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G's... I couldn't do it and I'm absolutely positive they couldn't do it."

I haven't looked into the credibility of Russ Wittenberg, but if he is credible, this is pretty damning.