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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I read reporting last night that ATC lost contact with the pilots somewhere over New Jersey on the plane's flight to Long Island. So that's likely when the depressurization occurred.
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So they were likely flying for 3+ hours while unconscious. The plane's autopilot seems to have turned the plane around at the Long Island airport when the pilot did not manually engage the landing procedures.

We are very lucky that this plane had enough fuel to crash in a rural area. It's just dumb luck that it didn't crash into a city or a busy area.[/quote]
This is alarming and I would love to know more from aviation nerds why jets weren't assembled to investigate the first time they lost contact. I have seen the clip of the pilot landing at LAX and ATC yelling at him for not radioing back faster to confirm the runway was clear - like most people I assumed that when ATC radios you, you answer. So I am wondering how they not only lost contact but the plane didn't land, and it made it to DC before the Air Force assembled. God forbid it had run out of fuel over Manhattan, what a tragedy. [/quote]

Small planes do crash, sometimes in inhabited areas.  Remember the plane that crashed into the house by Gaithersburg?

But what do you think the ATC can do about an unresponsive plane at 30,000 feet?  Shoot it down?  Why would that be preferable?[/quote]
I am not asking that it be shot down after not responding to the radio once. I am asking why it was allowed to not respond to contact, not land as scheduled, and then fly almost 300 miles before the Air Force assembled. [/quote]what do you mean by, allowed? How do you suppose anyone not allows it? It's not at all unusual for ATC to lose communications with a pilot. Especially when they hand off from sector to sector, each with a different frequency. Sometimes they miss the hand-off or are on the wrong frequency. It's does t trigger any immediate alarms and communication is usually restored pretty quickly. [/quote]

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