Thread: Malaysian Airline loses contact with passenger airline
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Old 03-13-2014, 01:44 PM   #438
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Originally Posted by lowside67 View Post
I realize this, but the plane is not designed to ever have that transmitter turned off. If that is not supposed to be able to be turned off, there is no reason to believe why the ones from the engine wouldn't also be able to be turned off.

It doesn't actually fix anything to just add more transmitters if they can be turned off, and if they are going to be added and not able to be turned off, why not skip adding them and just make the main transmitter unable to be disabled?

Either way it doesn't fix anything to simply add more transmitters...

Mark
The transponders can be turned off by the piliot by hitting a switch on the cockpit. CNN just showed the switch. The system that sends engine data can't be turned off by the piliot.
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