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Originally Posted by FLYGEEZER View Post
Seahawk, could it be..that others are involved like route control folks & the confliction of information given by the government press releases ?
I'm a simple guy so I like to start with the basics: No conspiracies, but there are voids.

If I am responsible for either handing off or accepting Flight 370, as soon as it goes silent I am alerting the entire air traffic control system...and they no doubt have a protocol to handle just this situation.

Break out the check list and get busy.

I'd also like to hear the tapes of the controllers after the IFF/Transponder was shut off.

I lost the ability to transmit radio comms (could still hear them) once with a controller on a very innocuous IFR flight, had to squawk the lost comm code and the world lit up: Two popped circuit breakers later and we were back in business.

Trust me, when this flight went dark, the whole system was alerted.
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