A balloon defacto travels by air currents and has no manipulation features to change course, except up and down.
Most Choppers have a max distance of under 1000 miles and fly in such low altitudes that they constantly course correct due to more surface level changes in winds.
Every modern aviation vehicle has gps which according to the internet accounts for long distance accuracy.
Back in time before gps planes more often had to recalculate mid air or drastically course correct near destination due to historical documents. (See other post)
I just can’t see one person benefiting from this conspiracy. Maybe this is a simulation and the gods made it all up, I’m open to that idea, but ether way why would I care than. People are much easier to manipulate so why come up with a useless global generational expensive conspiracy?