The Remote Control Hypothesis:
Additional Support
Sam Aurelius Milam III
For some time now, I've believed that the airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, were remotely controlled.  I made that argument in the article Remote Possibility, in the April 2006 issue of this newsletter and again in Unnamed Agency, first completed on Thursday, August 28, 2008.
On Thursday, July 11, 2013, I watched a two-hour documentary called Curiosity:  Plane Crash.  It was a Discovery Channel production, first released in October of 2012.  It told the story of a research project intended to improve the understanding of what happens during the crash of a large airplane.  The researchers used a retired Boeing 727.  They installed some instrumentation, some crash dummies, and some high-speed video cameras.  They operated the airplane out of the international airport at Mexicali, Mexico and prepared a crash site in a stretch of uninhabited desert, a few miles south of the border.
The documentary had a few flaws.  The significance of certain events was overstated in the narrative, apparently for dramatic effect.  Their claim that they were making the first ever attempt to crash an airplane by remote control was refuted by their own footage of a previous attempt by NASA to do the same thing.  I believe that their claim that no large airplane had ever before been flown by remote control was false because, in my opinion, the airplanes that crashed on September 11, 2001 were flown by remote control.  Other than that, it was a reasonably well-done documentary.
The significance of the documentary follows from the fact that, since the airplane was to be crashed, the crew had to bail out a few minutes prior to the crash.  Because of that, according to the narration, it was necessary to control the airplane remotely during its final few minutes of flight.  I believe that claim to be in error.  My understanding is that those airplanes can land themselves using only the autopilot.  A software update in the flight computer should have enabled the airplane to crash itself.  I don't know why the researchers went to so much trouble to do it the hard way.  Maybe I'm wrong about the autopilot or maybe it was a subtle attempt to send us a message.  Read on.
To enable the remote control of the airplane, the researchers installed, in the airplane's control linkages, some servos and receivers for their control signals.  That raises another question.  My previous research suggests that such changes were unnecessary.  Information that I found on a Boeing website leads me to believe that the airplane already had the potential to be remotely controlled, requiring only some software changes in the flight computer.  However, the way that the researchers did it will also work.  What's most interesting is the controller that they used.  Now, pay attention because this leads to the whole point of this article.  To control a Boeing 727 in flight and crash it into the ground at the designated location, they used a standard model hand-held radio control unit of the kind that hobbyists use to fly model airplanes.  They bought the thing at a hobby shop.  They operated it from a Cessna 337 that they flew alongside of the 727.
Consider the implications.  A bunch of scientists and engineers, restricted by a research budget and a deadline, and using a hobby store gadget, can remotely control a Boeing 727, fly it to a designated location, and crash it.  That makes it seem reasonable that trained specialists in a covert government agency, with a budget measured in billions of dollars, using the best equipment available, should  be able to do the same thing, using any similar airplane.  A Boeing 727 isn't so vastly different from a Boeing 757 or a Boeing 767 as to make the idea seem implausible.
I recommend Pentagon Anomalies and Unnamed Agency. Both essays are available in The Sovereign's Library.  Go to http://sovereign-library.org.uk/.  Click on the link for "Directory of Writing by Sam Aurelius Milam III" and then look for "Consider the events of September 11, 2001".