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		colanderman on Dec 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iran Releases Video Of Captured US Drone Plane I'd say the most likely scenario is this: low-level engineer discovers the frequency the drone is on, jams it, it lands itself, then the (pleasantly surprised) engineer claims to his superior that he intercepted it and commanded it to land.

JonnieCache on Dec 8, 2011 [–]

This sounds about right. It probably just turned out that it was trivial to force the thing into landing mode for whatever reason.

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