"Home Run"- Electronically Hijacking of Passenger Jet Aircrafts

Copyright Joe Vialls, October 2001

Edited for simplicity: by Deepak Sarkar, January 2006, www.kolki.com

What is ‘Home Run’? In the mid-seventies America faced a new and escalating crisis, with US commercial jets being hijacked for geopolitical purposes. Determined to gain the upper hand in this new form of aerial warfare, two American multinationals collaborated with the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) on a project designed to facilitate the remote recovery of hijacked American aircraft. Brilliant both in concept and operation, “Home Run” [not its real code name] allowed specialist ground controllers to listen in to cockpit conversations on the target aircraft, and then take absolute control of its computerized flight control system by remote means. Currently Swedish ‘Telia’ using Boeing’s ‘Home Run’ to Surf free of charge on-board airplanes.

Transponder and ‘Home Run’: Technically a transponder is a combined radio transmitter and receiver which operates automatically, in reference to 9/11 relaying data between the four aircraft and air traffic control on the ground. The signals sent provide a unique “identity” for each aircraft, essential in crowded airspace to avoid mid-air collisions, and equally essential for ‘Home Run’ controllers trying to lock onto the correct aircraft. Once it has located the correct aircraft, Home Run “piggy backs” a data transmission onto the transponder channel and takes direct control from the ground. This explains why none of the 9/11 aircraft sent a special “I have been hijacked” transponder code, despite multiple activation points on all four aircraft. Because once the transponder frequency had already been piggy backed by Home Run, transmission of the special hijack code was rendered impossible. This was the first hard proof that the 9/11 target aircraft had been hijacked electronically from the ground.

Helpless Pilots: Once control has been taken from the ground, regardless of the wishes of the hijackers or flight deck crew, the hijacked aircraft could be recovered using top secret computer codes and landed automatically at an airport of choice, with no more difficulty than flying radio-controlled model planes or military drones.

How a pilot operates an aircraft? In order to control an aircraft in three-dimensional space, the pilot uses the control yoke (joystick) in front of him, rudder pedals under his feet, and a bank of engine throttles located at his side. Without engine thrust the aircraft would not fly at all, so for more speed or altitude the pilot increases throttle, and for less speed or altitude the pilot decreases throttle.

In order to raise or lower the nose of the aircraft, the pilot pulls or pushes on the control yoke, which in turn raises or lowers the elevators on the horizontal tail plane. To bank the aircraft left or right, the pilot moves the control yoke to the left or right, which in turn operates the ailerons on the outer wings. Lastly, to turn left or right at low speed or “balance” turns at high speed, the pilot presses the left or right rudder pedals as required, which in turn move the rudder on the vertical stabilizer.

Automated Boeing 757 and 767:   Most modern jet air planes have automated flight management system which can be programmed to do everything a pilot would do and even more. On top of it Boeing 757 and 767 have “Home Run” option integrated with the Transponder to take that control from the ground, if and when necessary. The 9/11 perpetrators knew all of these very well sitting at the top of technology and intelligence and utilized it to justify 870 Billion dollars military spending.

Reference: "Home Run"Electronically Hijacking the World Trade Center Attack Aircraft, Copyright Joe Vialls, October 2001