and the reason was they didn t want anybody to know where they were. i m going to show ignorance. could there be any other reason for doing so eater to save power, because of an emergency, or you wanted to keep it simple because anything else was testing the system. i m just throwing darts here. i don t think so. i don t really think so. it s a very sophisticated airplane. with lot of redundant systems. you have to think about that. it s done for you automatically by that masterful computer they have. to me there s a reason for turning those things off and the reason is they didn t want people to know where they were going and didn t don t found. danny, how soon was it after the lockerbie disaster that we were able to connect, all right there was an explosive device on board or obviously a lot