FROM..http://georgewashington.blogspot.com

Friday, January 13, 2006
Where's the Remote Control?
Some writers have claimed that the 9/11 hijacked airplanes were flown by remote control. So far, nothing has convinced me that the airplanes were controlled remotely.

However, as demonstrated below, the technology did in fact exist to control commercial airplanes by remote control as of September 11, 2001:

One day after 9/11, an article appeared on the top science and technology news service stating "hijackings could be halted in progress with existing technologies, say aviation researchers". The article quoted a transportation expert as saying:

"Most modern aircraft have some form of autopilot that could be re-programmed to ignore commands from a hijacker and instead take direction from the ground . . . ."

See also this article, in which the former head of British Airways "suggested . . . that aircraft could be commandeered from the ground and controlled remotely in the event of a hijack."

And Boeing states of its 757-200 (the type of airplane which slammed into the Pentagon), "A fully integrated flight management computer system (FMCS) provides for automatic guidance and control of the 757-200 from immediately after takeoff to final approach and landing."

In fact, before 9/11, remote-controlled planes could fly up to 8600 miles (from the April 24, 2001 edition of Britain's International Television News)

Indeed, more than 40 years ago, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested shooting down a military drone airplane, pretending it was a real airplane, and then blaming the attack on the Cubans as a way to justify an invasion of Cuba. See also this searchable html version of the relevant documents.

And airplanes could be flown by remote-control least as far back as 1944, as demonstrated by this secret mission by President John F. Kennedy's older brother involving the remote-control flying of a bomb-laden airplane to attack German targets inside France.

Moreover, sophisticated remote control systems were developed before 9/11 which could override manual piloting and which could, potentially, guide numerous planes simultaneously.

It is also alleged that "NORAD (the North American Air Defense Command) had at its disposal a number of U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-106 Delta Dart fighter aircraft configured to be remotely flown into combat as early as 1959 under the auspices of a program know as SAGE. These aircraft could be started, taxied, taken off, flown into combat, fight, and return to a landing entirely by remote control, with the only human intervention needed being to fuel and re-arm them."

And coincidentally, Fox TV ran a fictional drama 6 months before 9/11, in which the U.S. government intended to fly a plane into the World Trade Center via remote control and blame it on terrorists.

So it is beyond doubt that the hijacked planes could have been controlled remotely. Were they?

Well, it is indeed odd that the guy who supposedly flew a huge Boeing 757 into the Pentagon with the skill of a military jet fighter reportedly "could not fly at all". Strange, indeed.

But I am still waiting for convincing proof.

See also this and this.
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