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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
Bookman, Stewart's plane was being tracked because it was in trouble - It was out of control - and had been for quite some time - They were tracking it to make sure it didn't come down in the middle of a city or something. Today, an aircraft that gets drastically off course or doesn't respond to a radio transmission will soon find itself with the company an F-15 or something - that is because of 9-11. Prior to that it would not have stirred up a lot of excitemment.
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Apparently we have read differing stories. I understand that there was no response from that plane (or one could sloppily assume that it was out of control?!?!?) ANYWHO..so if I would take what you said to my internal PC I would think that it WAS Ok to go around flying not responding to FAA but not OK to be out of control.
Stewarts plane flew for HOURS before it crashed BTW.