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Used to be Singpilot...
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sioux Falls, SD is what the reg says on the bus.
Posts: 1,867
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What everyone seems to forget is that what happened is EXACTLY what was SUPPOSED to happen.
The Captain wanted to embarrass the Malaysian Government that had stolen the last 20-something elections, and had convicted and sentenced the leader of his opposition party of sodomy the day before the flight.
He accomplished the perfect plan. The INMARSAT pinger (that he did not know was there, installed by Boeing when the airframe was a white tail), was for datalink system MAS never bought. He was not trained on a system that was not installed, so disabling it was not on his list.
It is the perfect crime. Imagine if INMARSAT had not stepped up.....
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