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Old May 5, 2004 | 1:56 am
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Originally Posted by Craig
The pilots would have been well aware of what was happening. When the transponder code for a hijack was received, a series of guarded (in case there really were hijackers) dialogues would have taken place between ATC and the cockpit.
Im not sure I follow your post.... if there was a malfunction, how can we be sure that the cockpit was knew about the beacon actually being activated...?
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