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re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:12 pm to MountainTiger
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:12 pm to MountainTiger
Just a little more information on the protocol required to effectively disable ACARS...
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Turning off the radios and ACARS would be more difficult. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel spoke with commercial pilots, including two who have flown Boeing 777s similar to the jet that vanished with 239 people aboard.
He says the pilots tell him that those systems are "pretty hard-wired into a modern aircraft. "They said you'd have to go through big checklists, you'd have to possibly pull circuit breakers if you wanted to deactivate [all the communications equipment]," Brumfiel tells All Things Considered host Melissa Block.
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Posted on 3/21/14 at 8:44 am to Cs
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Just a little more information on the protocol required to effectively disable ACARS...
I just saw an aviation 'expert' on CNN "New Day" who claims that ACARS can simply be turned off through computer interface. I will try to find a link to someone who agrees that acars can be turned off on the computer/ in the cockpit.
But I must admit that even if the Pilot somehow became disoriented & turned off his transponder it is just unimaginable that he would be so unlucky to accidentally turn off ACARS as well.
Maybe not a complete mechanical breakdown but some electronic malfunction?
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