Use care.
The author does not reference a known radar tracking system; actually names \none\.
Military transponders can be (and ARE) are toggled off and on by the crew according to orders.
Any transponders you see on a tracking system are ON because the military WANTS you to see them.
Any date/time in an archived track can be manipulated by the MIL *or* DoState/CIA to achieve a story-line.
DoState/CIA are hiring mercenaries to do their dirty.
Many believe that N2 was sabo’d by CIA-hired mercs.
Mercenary air crews can toggle transponders just as well as MIL.
This one smells of falsity from end to end.
IMHO
Thanks. I don’t know tech stuff. So...caveat empor.
Good catch, Cletus, on the radar tracking system, and the aircrafts turning on and off their transponders.
And I agree, that P8 —wanted— to be noticed... its designed to look for things.