Accidental Activation Activates Fighter Jet Escort

by Anne McLaughlin on May 12, 2009 · 1 comment

in errors, transportation, usability

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Apparently there is a particular communication channel airlines use when they have been hijacked. This afternoon, an American Airlines flight was escorted by fighter jets to Miami when the channel was set on a flight from Puerto Rico.

This interface error sounds expensive. Can we assume the flight crew did not know they were using this frequency?

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