Boeing 777 Pilots: It's Not Easy To Disable Onboard Communications (No idea)

NPR ^ | March 14, 2014 | Scott Newman

[Drango]

No idea said the pilots.

Interesting...

[Rokurota]

Everything is easy if you know how to do it.

[al baby]

Great now they are in on the cover up

[exinnj]

Senior pilot was a tech geek who had his own flight simulator at home...

[dirtboy]

It is doable if you board the plane with the knowledge of such and the intention of such. The average pilot would not.

[colorado tanker]

This thing just gets curiouser and curiouser.

[Yossarian]

Which leads to the question which I've had for along time…

…which is: just how well are we checking out everyone who's servicing the planes?

[mountainlion]

The Korea pilots had no idea on how to land a plane without the computer. I suppose one of the stolen passports holders could have been an electronics expert for that model of plane.

[Revolting cat!]

It’s time that somebody brought up an Occam’s Razor to this investigation.

[Izzy Dunne]

the plane's satellite antenna appears to have kept communicating for at least 5 1/2 hours after Malaysia Air MH370 disappeared from air-traffic controllers' radar.

That's news to me. I heard it was about 4 hours after disappearance, or 5 hours after takeoff, and that was disputed by Boeing and Mal Air anyway.

[Izzy Dunne]

"So, to do this, you'd have to have some degree of premeditation and a lot of knowledge of the aircraft," he says.

That's an incredibly mundane thing to say.

[Vince Ferrer]

From another article...

...And Captain Zaharie was said to be so keen to maintain his high professionalism that he had even set up a flight simulator in his own home.

[Izzy Dunne]

Does anybody think that NPR is worth the money poured into it?

[chrisser]

I don’t know if this story is accurate or not, but, could it be that any pilot who would speak to NPR possibly isn’t the brightest of the bunch?

I know if NPR called me to talk to me about my job, I’d tell them to go pound sand.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The more I read about this, the more convinced I am that it was some kind of freak, once-in-a-million-years occurrence, and that nothing sinister is involved.

[null and void]

That's an incredibly mundane thing to say.

Yep, the headline tells the story they want to to see and remember, and the body buries the truth they want you to miss.

[Unknowing]

There is no such thing as signal intelligence.

There is no such thing as electronic warfare.

There is no such thing as “spoofing.”

Therefore pilots cannot learn anything about that stuff.

[null and void]

Does anybody think that NPR is worth the money poured into it?

Democrats and communists?

[Revolting cat!]

The more I read about this, the more I wish that there be no explanation whatsoever ever, like when my socks disappear in laundry!

[Izzy Dunne]

From a CNN story:

If Malaysia Air Flight 370 was indeed commandeered, the person or people responsible for it knew enough about civil aviation to know how to turn off the transponder. Of course, this is exactly what happened with three out of the four planes that were hijacked on 9/11 so it's a technique that is not unknown.