You understand the difference between design and visualization, yes?
I can draw 30 foot tall purple dinosaurs in either 3D Max, 3D Viz, or Maya. Does this mean that these are accurate representations of reality? I can "design" a highway with a 30% grade in any of the three as well. Does this mean it should be built that way? I can change the dimensions of the plane and the topography over which it is flying to put a shadow just about anywhere between Boston and Albequerque. Does this mean AA77 never hit the Pentagon?
Once Maya puts in error-checking, QA/QC, and parametric controls, I may call it a design program, but I would still require the original files and parameters used by the cartoonist in question before I would consider any output to have any relevance to reality. Ephemerides and flight data are only a few of the parameters needed to replicate what could have been seen on that day.
However, I will retract and reword one thing I said originally.
"Incompetence in, incompetence out."
This is unreal.
YOU are the one who is brushing this image aside BEFORE checking its validity and accurateness for yourself.
YOU are the so-called ´teacher of AutoCAD´. You SHOULD be able to debunk it.
Have you actually followed the links I have posted as to Maya´s capabilities and its ´design vizualisation´?
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13577897&siteID=123112
The ´cartoonist´ is an aviation professional taught and advised by an expert who uses Maya to design components for GM and NASCAR.
I have genuinely asked the author for the data you ask for and he wants you to go and ask him yourself.
´Incompetence´? Prove it.