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NYC-bound Virgin Air Flight 45 squawking Hijack code; being diverted to New Brunswick, Canada
ABC News | 6-3-5 | ABC News

Posted on 06/03/2005 7:25:05 AM PDT by Petronski

The pilot says the hijack code is an error and the plane is secure, but naturally the authorities are not trusting him.


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To: Age of Reason

Yes ... do you remember Swiss Air 111?


361 posted on 06/03/2005 7:01:09 PM PDT by NorthOf45
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To: Modernman

I've been looking for that book for a while now. I guess I'll have to order it online.


362 posted on 06/03/2005 7:06:16 PM PDT by NorthOf45
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To: NorthOf45

Which one was that?


363 posted on 06/03/2005 7:15:27 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
Swiss Jet Crashes Near Peggys Cove
229 aboard, no survivors

The Halifax Herald Limited
September 3, 1998

Airline officials confirmed this morning there are no survivors from the crash of a Swissair jet that went down off Peggys Cove late Wednesday night with 214 passengers and 15 crew members on board.

Flight SR-111, a triple-engined MD-11 similar to a DC-10, was reported to have tried an emergency landing on the water off Blandford at 10:18 p.m.

"We lost it on radar seven (nautical) miles south of Peggys Cove," an official from the Halifax Search and Rescue Centre said.

Searchers have recovered 36 bodies and early this morning said they had located the tail section of the large jetliner.

Divers were searching in 75-150 feet of water for more wreckage and the jet's flight recorder, or black box.

Four of the bodies had been recovered from the water by 3 a.m. There were no initial signs of survivors.

Swiss Air Flight 111 News Coverage
364 posted on 06/03/2005 7:51:13 PM PDT by NorthOf45
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To: Petronski
This is a Transponder.
The hijack code would need to be entered into this "radio" in the airplane. It is just dialed or in the newer versions, typed in. There is NO CHANCE IN HELL that you could mistakenly put in the Hijack Code.

All pilots know the code - they also know the importance of it.


365 posted on 06/05/2005 7:18:05 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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