I found what I was looking for the other day... information about the spin off series from the X-Files called The Lone Gunmen (yes, lone as in singular but plural men).
In
NZ we never got to watch the pilot #1 episode because of its content as it went to air after "the events of September 11".
The plot was that a commercial airliner had been hijacked and was going to be crashed into the World Trade Centre with the X-Files type of twist being that the plane was being remotely controlled. Some might consider this in bad taste given "the events of September 11" but there is a slight problem with that theory... the pilot episode went to air (in the USA) on March 4 2001... six months BEFORE "the events of September 11"
Here is a link for more of the plot line etc
http://home.earthlink.net/~killtown/lonegunmen.html Quote:
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The plane is closing rapidly on the WTC North Tower. The pilots struggle vainly to override the remote control signal, while Langly struggles to decrypt it. Frohike has gone to plead with Yves, who has the "Octium" chip stolen at the opening of the episode. After he threatens to divulge her true identity (her full name is an anagram of "Lee Harvey Oswald", though it is never clear what this implies) she agrees to patch in with her superchip and help them decrypt the signal. Somehow magically joining forces with Langley in the few seconds remaining (Maryland must have really good DSL connections) remote control is defeated in a predictable but nicely-done CGI near miss.
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WEIRD 
I have found somewhere to download the entire episode, now I just need to make space on my drive for it
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_ht..._Episode_1.htm