Experienced Pilots Attempt 9/11 Flight Maneuvers in Full-Motion Boeing 737 Simulator
October 8th, 2025Via: International Center for 9/11 Justice:
At the Turning the Tide: 9/11 Justice in 2025 conference in Washington, D.C., Dr. Piers Robinson presented the preliminary results of the International Center for 9/11 Justice’s 9/11 flight simulator study.
This groundbreaking project examines the plausibility of the official 9/11 narrative by testing whether the flight paths of American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 175 could realistically have been carried out by the men alleged to have commandeered those aircraft.
Using a full-motion Boeing 737 simulator, three highly experienced airline transport pilots—including two former fast-jet military pilots—were tasked with replicating the flight maneuvers recorded on September 11th. The study applied two levels of testing:
Stringent Test – replicating the precise complex maneuvers observed on 9/11, including Flight 175’s rapid descent and final banking turn into the South Tower and Flight 77’s 330-degree descending turn before striking the Pentagon at ground level.
Lenient Test – simply pointing the aircraft at the target and flying directly into it.
On first attempts, even these highly experienced pilots frequently usually failed to complete the stringent maneuvers. Many runs ended in missed targets, loss of control, or crashes short of the buildings. While subsequent attempts showed improvement, the findings suggest that such precision maneuvers are low-probability events, particularly for pilots with only a few hundred hours of training—the level attributed to the alleged hijackers.
Robinson emphasized that these results represent only Stage One of the study. The next crucial phase — Stage Two — will test pilots with experience comparable to that of the alleged 9/11 hijackers. This will allow researchers to directly evaluate whether such low-time pilots could have realistically carried out the observed flight profiles. Stage Two will commence later in 2025, pending funding and logistical support.
The implications of this research go beyond pilot skill. If experienced airline captains struggled to replicate the 9/11 maneuvers, the results point to the possibility that the aircraft were not under manual control but instead guided by automated systems.
In his 2004 book, ‘Crossing the Rubicon’, Michael Ruppert argued the plane was guided using advanced autopilot systems.
Hell of a book, at 675 pages–astonishing number of details and 900 footnotes. The autopilot aspect has been part of my understanding since reading it in 2004.
In his acknowledgements, something I found impressive:
“I must also thank two of the world’s most courageous, independent, and brilliant women: Catherine Austin Fitts, one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever had; and the most Honorable Cynthia McKinney, the former and next Representative of Georgia’s Fourth District. I have watched both of you endure and persevere through obstacles, attacks, and challenges that would have defeated stronger people than me. We have stayed united through all of them. I can’t tell either one of you of the number of times you have wordlessly instructed me about what strength is. You have told the truth where truth telling mattered most, and you have braved the retaliation from which others shrank. I would follow either one of you through flame and hail, and I know you have my back.”
Catherine Austin Fitts also wrote the forward to the book, after having crossed her own personal Rubicon 10 years earlier, by being a whistleblower to fraud at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
NH, haven’t thought of Ruppert in years. Wasn’t aware of his CAF acknowledgement. Thanks