Maby, I've found that local news usualy just gets its feeds from AP and and the like, and they offer very little except teasers to get you to tune in. This of course does not include local stories about local incidents. ie. abc dallas gets its feed from abcnews which gets most stuff from groups like the AP or its own global corrispondants. But if the dallas mayor does something stupid as usual abc dallas would be the first on it as far as MSM goes.... but thats my opinion, i could be wrong, if so, disreguard.
as per the switch, i dont know what a terror alert switch would do on a plane that small, its been reported that there was no emergancy signal on the transponder.
www.cnn.com
BREAKING NEWS Russian news agency Interfax reports airliner sent "hijack" alert before disappearing from radar and crashing. Details soon.
/shrug, well i was wrong on this one
It was reported at the end of their broadcasting