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Lost Jet’s Path Seen as Altered via Computer
The New York Times ^ | Monday, March 18, 2014 | Matthew L. Wald and Michael S. Schmidt

Posted on 03/17/2014 6:59:33 PM PDT by kristinn

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To: kristinn

Sounds like some idiot reporter learned of the Flight Management System and just wanted to sound smart by using it in an article.


21 posted on 03/17/2014 7:31:19 PM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: txhurl

The article I saw only said that there was a flight engineer in the cockpit. So, that information was provided previous to today.


22 posted on 03/17/2014 7:33:30 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: KoRn

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a muzzie trip, that started from this muzzie ‘port aboard this muzzie ship!


23 posted on 03/17/2014 7:33:42 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: kristinn

Here is my question(If anyone here knows the answer that would be great) let’s say just for the sake of argument, that there was some catastrophic mechanical failure event taking place on the plane..would putting in this flight path on the computer make sense..or would the pilot just take the plane off of auto pilot and start flying back to an airport, any airport in the immediate area? I think it would be the most interesting to know WHEN the Pre-programmed U-Turn was programmed, BEFORE the flight or AFTER the flight was in the air..if it was before the plane ever took off that is the big game changer


24 posted on 03/17/2014 7:34:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: CodeToad

Except for this phrase ... “according to senior American officials.”


25 posted on 03/17/2014 7:36:16 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

If there is an emergency in flying the plane, you don’t try to control it remotely. The pilot would take control immediately.


26 posted on 03/17/2014 7:39:14 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: JouleZ

“So it was the Captain, with a computer”

No, it was the flight director which is built into the aircraft.

Every commercial aircraft has one and a lot of private aircraft do also.


27 posted on 03/17/2014 7:39:50 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Viennacon

Nahhh.. Flight software was probably altered even before aircraft left the ground and at some point, no matter what the pilots did it had no effect. The guy flying the plane was probably sitting in the passenger section via his laptop or perhaps in another country flying the aircraft remotely. Commands by the pilots were probably futile as they were locked-out completely. Part of the evil hack probably included killing their voice communications from the cockpit to ATC after ‘alright, good night’. You buyin?


28 posted on 03/17/2014 7:39:52 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Star Traveler

I’ll make a bet with you.

If it is used in some kind of terrorist attack, I bet the Obama adm. will have some version of the “spontaneous” lie to explain the timing of the attack itself.

Not the taking the plan as “spontaneous” but the attack itself.


29 posted on 03/17/2014 7:40:04 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Star Traveler

That’s what I thought, that if something horrible is happening on board mechanically, they wouldn’t even bother to do this, they would take the plane to the nearest airport, not bother punching in some fly path


30 posted on 03/17/2014 7:40:49 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Surely the pilot can take back manual control in such a situation. A plane hack?


31 posted on 03/17/2014 7:41:54 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: kristinn

I would love to know how they know this.


32 posted on 03/17/2014 7:42:22 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Viennacon
Surely the pilot can take back manual control in such a situation


33 posted on 03/17/2014 7:42:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Star Traveler

Yeah, but the computer that changed course may have received it’s orders from another computer, just like in Internetland.


34 posted on 03/17/2014 7:42:43 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: tahoeblue

That would solve the problem. Or put them out with sleeping gas.


35 posted on 03/17/2014 7:44:14 PM PDT by ncfool (Taking back America 2016.)
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To: Star Traveler

Except that phrase means nothing. Might as well have said, “I am making this stuff up.”


36 posted on 03/17/2014 7:44:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: kristinn

Seems to me I heard this a day or two ago. Maybe it was speculation at that time. Hard to keep track.


37 posted on 03/17/2014 7:44:28 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: JouleZ

I want to know why this particular plane, and or particular flight? Why steal THIS plane?

For cargo? For plane? For passenger(s)?


38 posted on 03/17/2014 7:44:55 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: Star Traveler

Especially this ace pilot.

I’m pretty committed to the wreckage/debris field off Pulau Palax, but this engineer changes everything. I think the pilot would have done everything to recover control, unless someone incapacitated him.


39 posted on 03/17/2014 7:45:03 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Viennacon

Mine: Plane was headed for Diego Garcia. It was intercepted and shot down. This happened during several golf games that included some precise mulligans. The specifics are sealed forever. Next EO?


40 posted on 03/17/2014 7:46:01 PM PDT by mcshot (Their fraud is malignant, deep, unending and perilous.)
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