Transponders
This old short article is still interesting and makes an important point about the transponders of the 9/11 planes being turned off.
Any pilot who was good enough to fly a large Boeing would have known that turning off the transponder would:
1) make the plane only somewhat harder to track by radar
2) would have immediately alerted ground control to a serious problem with the plane
So what benefit to the hijacker was gained by turning off the transponder?
There are of course many reasons to be suspicious of the whole hijacking story, but I think this is an interesting angle.
===> If one was a conspiracy theorist, one would immediately realize that turning off the transponder would make it easier for the plane to disappear-- for instance, to land at a secret location and to carry out a plane-swap of some sort.
Any pilot who was good enough to fly a large Boeing would have known that turning off the transponder would:
1) make the plane only somewhat harder to track by radar
2) would have immediately alerted ground control to a serious problem with the plane
So what benefit to the hijacker was gained by turning off the transponder?
There are of course many reasons to be suspicious of the whole hijacking story, but I think this is an interesting angle.
===> If one was a conspiracy theorist, one would immediately realize that turning off the transponder would make it easier for the plane to disappear-- for instance, to land at a secret location and to carry out a plane-swap of some sort.
posted by spooked at 9:48 AM
3 Comments:
Nonsense, they would still appear on the radar.
I'll go with answer number 1, "make the plane only somewhat harder to track by radar".
I think that if I was trying to use a plane to crash into a building I'd want every advantage I could get. Turning off the transponder would make the plane harder to track since it would now have to be tracked by "skin paint" and not by transponder data. This means a person, not a computer, would have to be involved in locating the plane. Also since the transponders provide altitude data, turning off the transponder makes determining a plane's altitude much more difficult. These things make interception much harder than they would be if the transponder was on.
Of course, I'm just using common sense here. I'm sure that in reality the Karl Rove secret mind ray malfunctioned somehow and made the hijackers turn off the transponders.
the whole "transponder" question is legit if there WERE indeed hijacked planes...but if one looks at Gerard Holmgren's work, there may have been NO PLANES at all...this leads to the NORAD/Air Force war games being conducted that day...the war games and terror drills are a major link to finding the truth...which planes were real, which existed, which didn't...flight logs, tail numbers, radar blips...Holmgren goes DEEP into this stuff...
www.911closeup.com
http://members.iinet.net.au/~holmgren/
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