quit after the pilot said all was okay. why? nothing sinister. i think they keep trying to make the pilots every action and background sinister when there is nothing here. trashing the pilots is unseemly. turning off the transponder is the first thing a hijacker would do. that s right. the transponder can be subject to a technical failure like any other part of the cockpit. the prime minister referenced deliberate action. seem to be throwing under the bus the pilots. part of the narrative that it was something nefarious. these pilots have families and they are in great agony and distress. why would a bad guy take out the acars system? let s assume there is intervention in the cockpit? it makes no sense.
differ between the acars system. it is nothing anything in the cockpit. not like a cctv camera in the cockpit that they tape over to avoid them being spotted. the greatest thing a hijacker would be worried about would be the satellite would somehow see what was going on. that s not the case with the acars at all. so far and maybe i m cherry picking from the columns that i read from you, you are not casting aspersions on the pilots. in this case, it is swung to the technical. what i have been trying to do is pull it back all week and say we need to interrogate all of the technical possibilities for the