[struwwelpeter]

that E-Systems had fitted Electronic Warfare on the 747.

Some Soviet dezinformatsiya just lives on and on. ;-)

This may be referring to the airborne laser platform, or an E-4 upgrade. How about a link?

[TommyDale]

Not long after this incident, on "60 Minutes", there was a story reporting on an E-Systems employee being wrongly charged in a robbery of a Kentucky Fried Chicken. In the background of the E-Systems shot sat a 747. It was later reported that several "international versions" of the 747s were fitted with EW, "in case of a national security emergency" where the U.S. Government could possibly make use of the aircraft.