Oh, come on, Teribus! You thought the automatic landing system somehow misdirected two different planes so each one would strike a different tower of the world trade center from a different side? That would have been a preposterous coincidence. And you believed that after it had happened once, a second pilot would not have been alert enough to notice it was happening again?

No, get real. When the second plane struck it became clear to me that this was an attack.

Secondly, these planes were not landing at NY. They were flights from Boston to LA that had disappeared from radar screens for forty-five minutes only to appear again by crashing into the WTC. They were not utilizing the automatic landing system. Both had registered suspicious microphone activity, both had cut themselves off from contact with air traffic control. As a cilvilian, you did not know these things yet. As President, Bush would have been told. It was crystal-clear to the government at that time that these were hijacked planes.