Anonymous wrote:
Are cockpits outfitted with some kind of emergency notification button, that can tell air traffic control (or otherwise) that something like a hijacking as occurred, even with the tracking system turned off (or can be silently pushed to submit a signal, before tracking is turned off)? The plane is new plane - it's fit with highly secure cockpit doors, right?
I find it hard to believe that a hijacking could occur in this day and age without the ability to submit some kind of silent emergency signal.
I wonder if the pilots were disorientated somehow - I've heard that if that the pressure and air circulation system may have had problems, perhaps the pilots were in an altered state?
Or, it was deliberate?
From what I understand, it has not been 100% confirmed that the plane continued flying even after the signaling was turned off, or confirmed that it veered for over an hour in the other direction. It still has yet to be fully corroborated with other airplanes that may have traveled in that "turnaround" area.
Maybe the terrorist used knock out gas or small trained snakes that could go through the air vents of the plane a bite the pilots?