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To: CodeJockey

No. There is no switch to issue a May Day. All we have is a radio, which may have been disabled with the transponder. There is also a transponder code for emergency, but again, n avionics fire could easily have taken both those out.


63 posted on 03/18/2014 6:12:35 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat
No. There is no switch to issue a May Day.

Note to future commercial aircraft designers. If a situation occurs where a pilot cannot make a distress call, have doomsday switch on a panel on it's own dedicated circuit with it's own aux power supply that when hit sends a distress signal. Would have thought that would have been available.

70 posted on 03/18/2014 6:21:59 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Christian, Freeper, Tea Party Member, Bitter Clinger, Creepy White Cracker)
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