To: mandaladon
The copilot (or pilot) flew the plane to the southwest coast of Sumatra and attempted a preplaned belly landing on a beach of Sumatra or one of the offshore islands. There is little communication or radar capability there.
18 posted on
03/13/2014 5:44:15 PM PDT by
kayak42
To: kayak42
How about satellite optical coverage?
19 posted on
03/13/2014 5:45:56 PM PDT by
nascarnation
(I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
To: kayak42
The copilot (or pilot) flew the plane to the southwest coast of Sumatra and attempted a preplaned belly landing on a beach of Sumatra or one of the offshore islands. There is little communication or radar capability there. Whoever was flying when they got pinged in the Straits of Malacca, turned off the autopilot and descended to avoid radar. Tried hand flying got vertigo burned it in to the IO.
110 posted on
03/13/2014 9:07:18 PM PDT by
xone
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