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The Events of 9/11 From a Professional Pilot's point of view
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Capt. Dan,
If MH370 was remote controlled could it have fit into regular airspace over Pakistan or Afghanistan, say for instance taking a position of a plane that had been circling for 6 hours and fell off around the same time MH370 would have entered that airspace? Can call signs be changed in the air? Does local air traffic report those incidents?
Thanks!
Miss Cleo
Quoting: MissCleo Hi Miss Cleo, Well, as for a swap in mid air; it is definitely possible if preparation was done. It would take modifying the transponder. Each aircraft has a transponder hex code that is hard wired. The transponder beacon code is changed every flight by the pilots. But the hex code is unique to every airframe and cannot be changed without special programming. It can be done though... As for local traffic, the sky is so big that it would be easy to have 2 aircraft change places in flight without anyone ever seeing it. Would GLEK be a call sign easily manipulated in that situation? But how did they disable all the passengers? No texts no towers and lack of oxygen? Sadly, dealing with the people would be the easiest part of the operation. Depressurization is just a matter of a circuit breaker and switch. TSA isn't going to stop remote controls. Richard Reid the Christmas underwear bomber was stopped by wet matches. Again, the desire to down planes isn't going away. When do we get fed up and disarm the source? Is this regular conversation in Union meetings?
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