"Knowing the location would surely come from the hack and then all sorts of permutations are possible.
Considering someone else was able to hack the iranian system with worm tech last year, which must have significant security ? The drone route might be possible.
Remember the tennage lad with aspergers, who uncle sam tried to deport last year, succesfully hacked the pentagon looking for et"
Or, just maybe a single engined UAV had an engine failure?
Have you heard of Occams Razor?