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The wreckage of four - U-2s shot down -- and displayed
Interesting. I (and I'd think many others) have never seen 4 U-2s
sitting together.

Meanwhile that got me off into reading about - recon. planes
The wiki entry - RQ-4 Global Hawk says, "In March 1999, a Global Hawk
inadvertently responded to a termination signal emanating from Nellis Air
Force Base after the aircraft lost the Edwards AFB signal." Huh?? Okay,
guess that's clear. Bummer!

Clear as mud!

Well, the bottom line / end result seems fairly clear,
there was a safety mechanism, but between radio control signals
from Nellis and Edwards, they 'flubbed up' on controling
this 'mechanism', and so the plane (35+ million $) destroyed itself.

(reminescent of, "Mr. Bond, we regret to inform you,
but during inspection, you luggage was destroyed.")

The exact "hows" of this are muddy/murky to me.