-------- In message <[email protected]>, Joe Leikhim writes:
>My point is that, all of the discussion I have read ignores the >possibility that [...] The major point being ignored is that the terminal in the plane does a signon after approx 45-60 minutes (can't remember exact duration -- it's in the data released.) That means that the terminal was powered on. That implies it was previously powered off. The terminal doesn't power on by it's on, somebody is in the plane at that point, messing with circuit breakers. The hopeful interpretation is that somebody in the cockpit is heroically fighting to reconfigure the plane so he can call mayday and/or gain control. The conspiratorical interpretation is that in the time interval between the previous ping and the sign on, there plenty of time to land the plane at some marginally suitable strip, do what what you came for, take off, reconfigure the plane and autopilot and leave by parachute via the back door. The quick detour into the extreme high corner of the planes envelope which seems perfectly designed to incapacitate the passengers makes me lean towards the latter. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
