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by voakbasda 1685 days ago
Flying bombs that are being controlled remotely. And we know there’s no possible way that a hacking or ransomware group could exploit that channel and fly it into a couple of towers, right? Inconceivable!!
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Fly-by-wire control of passenger airplanes hitting the World Trade Center was the plot of the 2001 series The Lone Gunmen[1]. Yes, that was 6 months before 9/11.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)#Si...

A gas bag that bumped into a building would bounce off. Or rip and the hydrogen shoot up to the sky.

So, no, not especially conceivable. Or plausible.

What's to stop the hackers from running the halt and catch fire instruction?
+1 for obscure references