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Originally Posted by billjam
I am not a conspiracy theorist, I kinda lean towards the pilot with a gripe scenario, however I received the "theory" below the mail today. Seems a bit OTT to me, especially the bit about outsiders flying the plane remotely. I am sure some experts here can shoot down this one (the theory that is!). Or not!
The Americans are withdrawing from Afghanistan; one of their command and control system (used for controlling pilotless drones) was hijacked by the Taliban when an American transport convoy was moving down from one of the hill-top bases. The Taliban ambushed the convoy and killed 2 American Seal personnel, seized the equipment/weapons, including the command and control system which weighed about 20 tons and packed into 6 crates. This happened about a month ago in Feb 2014.
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Personally, I think someone's imagination has been working overtime on this, at least that's what I hope.  |
The first paragraph kills it for me and is there remote control in civilian aircraft?
I doubt that very much. It would be way too expensive to install and maintain and there's no way that could be kept secret from the general public.