2 civilian airliners down south of Moscow

(Krztalizer) wrote:

...which proves, yet again, how little journalists understand: setting the
transponder/IFF to emergency mode is done in a hijacking - or any other
emergency. All it does is to show the plane with a different display on the
radar screen.

Well, that depends if he squawks emergency, or if he squawks the hijack code.
Two different numbers - and I doubt many folks would dial in the wrong one
(although it has happened in the past).


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ia_plane_crash

It appears the Sibir airline's people are saying "activated an
emergency signal". The cockpit data recorders' info is detailed
somewhat in the article.