Actually my flying experience is one hour each on a De Havilland Chipmunk and a Jet Provost!
Fair enough. Neither of those aircraft bears any resemblance to a Boeing 757. I have many hours in several small aircraft types, though sadly none recently. I have about 6 hours in the Boeing 757 simulator -- the real ones with actual cockpits used by airlines to type-certify captains, not the cheapie PC software-based ones. I have about 2 in the Boeing 767 commercial simulator. Since I have experience roughly commensurate with that attributed to the alleged hijackers, I'll keep my own counsel on what material differences exist between the aircraft types. I had no problem whatsoever translating my light plane piloting skills to the problem of handling a large "airliner".
One thing I will note: untrained pilots tend to overcontrol large aircraft. This leads to pitch and roll excursions that produce eccentric flight paths. In my opinion, the flight paths of the 9/11 aircraft resemble exactly what I would expect from a novice pilot trying to manage a big Boeing beast for the first time.
Does not the fuel requirements, oxygen requirements and a subsequent release of kinetic energy that preclude any human flesh surviving anywhere near such an enclosed environment?
Not at all. That is a common layman's misconception about airliner crashes. Crashes create highly localized and variable "zones" of heat transfer and mechanical interaction that can completely devastate some portions of the aircraft and its occupants and leave others relatively unscathed. Similarly we find that supposedly "delicate" airframe components or contents survive what we intuitively believe to be a complete catastrophe.
Yet, the kinetic energy inside the hot zone was enough to sublimate 250,000+ lbs of Commercial grade aircraft...
No. No one is claiming that. The Pentagon impact was, however, classed as a high-energy impact. That tends to shred the airframe components in very small pieces that would not generally be visible in scene-level photographs of the area.
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