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“As we had made it clear before, the airship, used for meteorological research, unintentionally drifted into U.S. because of the westerlies and its limited self-steering capability,” Mr. Liu said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2023

China's foreign ministry said the balloon was mainly used for meteorological purposes and had limited self-steering ability.

From Reuters • Feb. 8, 2023

There has been no word whether it too is supposed to have been blown wildly off course, given its "limited self-steering capability".

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2023

“It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course,” read the Foreign Ministry’s statement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

This ingenious piece of mechanism at once caused the ship to become self-steering.

From With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure by Hodgson, Edward S.