During the Cuban missile crisis, operation northwood was presented to President Kennedy detailing a plan to fly remote controlled airplane over Cuba and have it blow up over Cuban airspace. The plane was going to be disguised as a commercial airliner and the passengers were to be college students on a trip. Media stories were to be generated before and after the plan was executed. One to set the stage and the others to manipulate subsequent support from the public for an invasion of Cuba by US military. Why is this relevant? It demonstrates the ability of the US government to fly aircraft remotely decades before 9/11

Movie: Wag the Dog with Dustin Hoffman. If you have not seen it, you must. Fantastic illustration of how govt can collude with news media and Hollywood to create a narrative.

https://ebrary.net/206660/engineering/boeing_patent_remote_control_takeover_aircraft

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I did hear another story at the time of 9/11. All kinds of military exercises all happened on that day that kept the Air Force away from the hijackers. One team were running a simulation program in which they controlled the flights of some aircraft. They flew them into buildings. They were surprised when the final screens they saw that day had a much more realistic ending than usual!

It could be that the planes were flown into the buildings by our own side who believed they were doing something else.

People talk as if this controlling of planes is a new thing. It was how JFK's elder brother, Joe, lost his life in 1944. A plane would be filled with explosives, a pilot would get the plane into the air and other planes would control it by radio at which point the pilot would bail out.

Joe, regarded as an experienced Patrol Plane Commander, and a fellow-officer, an expert in radio control projects, was to take a 'drone' Liberator bomber loaded with 21,170 pounds of high explosives into the air and to stay with it until two 'mother' planes had achieved complete radio control over the drone. They were then to bail out over England; the "drone," under the control of the mother planes, was to proceed on the mission which was to culminate in a crash-dive on the target, a V-2 rocket launching site in Normandy. The airplane... was in flight with routine checking of the radio controls proceeding satisfactorily, when at 6:20 p.m. on August 12, 1944, two explosions blasted the drone resulting in the death of its two pilots. No final conclusions as to the cause of the explosions has ever been reached.