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Sunday, 05 June 2022 09:59
The technology to fly a Boeing 720 remotely-controlled existed in 1984
In 1984 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) teamed up in a unique flight experiment called the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID), to test the impact of a Boeing 720 aircraft using standard fuel with an additive designed to suppress the fire.
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Before 9/11
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Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:23
30 minute gap between when the FAA determined Flight 77 had been hijacked and when it formally told this to NORAD.
By Paul Thompson of History Commons.
Flight 77 took off from Dulles International Airport near Washington at 8:20, ten minutes after the scheduled departure time. [8:20, CNN, 9/17/01, Guardian, 10/17/01] Its last routine radio communication was made 51 seconds after 8:50, and then it failed to respond to a routine instruction.
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9/11
