Foreign Press Foundation (FPF) editor Henk Ruyssenaars writes: Ever since I saw the airplanes crash into the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11, I’ve thought about which kind of virtuosi air acrobats those pilots must have been.

And wondered which kind of fuel they used to create this ‘melt down’ of even the steel constructions.

And I kept wondering because I do have a little bit experience with flying. In my work as a journalist I’ve ‘been flown’ all my life on commercial airlines, but also by pilots in choppers and bombers.

So I have some experience with planes, and the first time I was allowed to fly a small plane by myself was with some ‘flying friends’ who had a Piper Cherokee. Being a training plane with double controls the ‘maiden flight’ went very smooth all the way up to Stockholm, 800 Kms from the south of Sweden. It was 1971.

We had spoken to Anna and Jiri Porizkova ... political refugees from communist Czechoslovakia ... who had found a refuge and work at the University of Lund in the south of Sweden. We were asked to ‘hijack’ their baby daughter Paulina, who they had been forced to leave behind with a grandmother, when fleeing Czechoslovakia. The Porizkova’s plan was to make it happen during the ‘Air Fair’ in Brno that year, with the parents ‘preparing’ the grandmother in secret.

It would be ‘normal’ for two Swedish pilots/’businessmen’ to visit the Brno ‘Air Fair,’ where the grandmother was supposed to visit and deliver the baby at the plane. By soon taking of and flying under the radar, they’d make it with baby Paulina back ‘home’ to the waiting parents in Sweden, it was thought.

They had asked me as journalist/correspondent if it was possible to finance the whole ‘operation’ by selling the story to some big media in Sweden or abroad ... which was no problem. In short: the grandmother in Brno ‘knew nothing,’ got angry in fear and didn’t cooperate. The Swedish pilots came home empty handed: Mission aborted.

But, while I went to work and live for some years in Latin America as a correspondent, based in Chile during the hopeful President Salvador Allende period, the Porizkovas and pilots apparently had a second try and ended up for two years in a Czech jail. Which was no fun. After much international pressure Paulina came home first in 1974 ... and turned into a world famous model.

Later on, while based in North Africa, I was often able to fly a rather shaky ULM, a home-made ultra light plane which we had at the equally primitive Mornag airstrip, not far from Tunis. The piloting abruptly stopped when my very spinky Tunisian friend and owner of the small plane, took along a very heavy girlfriend. The plane went into a spin and crashed from around 100 meters altitude, killing both of them instantly.

I did never really learn to fly, but do know a lot about difficulties and crashes in aviation via my work, and as such I cannot accept the official version of the 9/11 crashes. And the fake of the so called ‘Pentagon crash’ is an insult too.

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But like Xaviera Hollander, I’ve never had any fear of flying itself. But I’ve always been told -- and have thought -- that this way of piloting such a big plane was close to impossible. And using a video on “How to learn to fly a Boeing 747” as some kind of evidence is an affront to<