The False dilemma scenario and the alleged 9/11 hijackers.

When considering this ongoing argument between the identity of the parties that assumed control over the planes' flight paths, the false dilemma logical scenario applies:

	Hijackers on board.	Remote Control.
Takeover of the planes
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We have four logical possibilities here:

A: Neither hijackers, nor remote control.

B: Hijackers only.

C: Remote control only.

D: Both hijackers on board *AND* remote control.

I think we all agree that the "neither" option is highly unlikely, and can be pretty much ignored… but still exists as a logical possibility.

The "both" option, however, allows the perpetrators not only the best chance of success of the mission, but also a very strong and convincing story *with lots of physical and circumstantial evidence* (security cam videos, passports, DNA, phone calls from passengers, etc) that there were physical hijackers on board, while keeping the "remote control" aspect totally hidden. (Technology to control planes by remote has existed for decades, by the way).

As we know, since none of the alleged hijackers were anywhere near capable pilots, and the intended mission required considerable piloting skills (especially the final part of the flight path of AA77 into the Pentagon… a tight, precision 360º descent losing thousands of feet in altitude in a couple of minutes), there would have been a considerable risk, re. the success of the operation, that someone at the controls might have screwed up. Two of many possibilities that had to be avoided:

1. One or more of the the planes could have easily missed its target, thus having to fly in a large circle around the highly restricted and heavily monitored NYC or Washington DC area in order to have another go (thus greatly increasing the chances of being intercepted). Failing that, those in control might have been forced to crash or ditch their plane in a place where the wreckage would be easily found and examined...

2. One of the planes might have hit one of the Twin Towers a glancing blow with a wingtip and crashed spinning somewhere into a Manhattan street. This scenario would have left a huge set of clues and evidence .. a lightly damaged WTC Tower and a plane wreck which would have been closely examined in the aftermath. Such would have been an outcome that the planners should have gone to great lengths to avoid, especially given the "scientifically-proven-beyond-all-reasonable-doubt" conclusion that the Twin Towers were demolished with pre-placed explosives. (Examining a still standing WTC tower would have revealed the telltale evidence!). As it happened, three planes hit their targets full on, and very little remained, no persons survived to tell tales, and both the Twin Towers implosions' completely destroyed any incriminating macroscopic sized evidence of how they were taken down… exactly the most likely desired outcome.

It is quite possible that hijackers could have been drilled and trained, as patsies, without knowing the identity of their paymasters, but final control of the planes remained in the hands of personnel unknown, from a secure undisclosed location…..

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As an afterthought: The (bizarre) crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 some 22 months prior to 9/11, in which the co-pilot was desperately fighting to regain control of his erratically and inexplicably behaving plane, was a most effective priming of the US (and world's) public of the notion of the "Islamic suicide Jihad pilot" into the individual and collective psyche. There is no evidence that the pilot in this case either wanted to commit suicide, or had any militant Islamic tendencies, or had any connections to al Qaeda/terrorist groups. I speculate here (don't we all on occasions in the 9/11 theater)….. but perhaps this was an experiment to determine how the remote takeover of a commercial plane could be executed, not only leaving no trace of remote control (apart from wild maneuverings), to also "educating" the public to the specter of Muslims who wanted to crash commercial planes and kill people. This accident occurred just off the US East Coast… how very, very convenient!