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Pooh Bear wrote:

Howard Berkowitz wrote:

Hijack is 7500. For some reason I haven't fathomed, the FAA ATC
procedure is to contact the aircraft by radio and ask "Sir, please
confirm you are squawking 7500."

Oh great ! What presence of mind ! What berk thought that one up ?

Any hijacker who knows what "squawking 7500" means will certainly know
enough about the rest of the system to either respond correctly or turn
the system back to the right freq.

The ones who *don't* know what it means won't catch the significance of
the message (and in the early moments of the hijack, they won't be
hearing the radio anyway).

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