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Perhaps someone could clarify my thoughts on one of the recent theories.
I understand that the transponder and whatever information radar sees could be changed. In other words, I think I understand that if this plane were on the ground somewhere, someone could be changing it's "signature" such that it would look like an ordinary commercial flight and would not arouse suspicion.
This line of thinking has been expanded to postulate that bad guys could fly a plane to a large metropolitan area and do bad things relatively undetected - at least until it was too late.
But correct me if I am wrong here, I just can't see this unique airplane ever getting back into the air without at least a couple of bells and whistles going off. As I understand it, the engine data that gets automatically sent to Rolls Royce or GE or whomever, is unique to the engines on this particular plane. If those engines fired up, we'd know about it in short order, right? Is there a way to disable that feature?? This would seem to eliminate any fear that the plane could be used in any way without the bad guys basically virtually dropping their pants.
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