Originally Posted by Ronnie
Image a flight takes off from London with a destination to the North West, e.g. Stockholm, Sweden.

And the authorities are now looking for the downed flight in an area about 2 hours flying time South and West of the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa.

Er, Stockholm is North East of London! And searching for MH370 off the Canary Islands? I don't think so. Certainly I've heard nothing about that and a google search throws up nothing (apart from that towed-boat mix up).

Re the pilots turning off the transponders, I saw footage on Sky news with a pilot in a Boeing 777 simulator & he showed it was quite possible for the transponders to be inadvertently switched off by a pilot as the switch for them is right next to another (can't now remember which one) which might be used routinely. Not easy to switch off by mistake but certainly not impossible either.


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