If someone wanted to jam cell phone signals, for the few minutes it took the passengers to black out from hypoxia or for hours of an off-course cruise, that's easy to do. My jammer cost about $50 iirc. No doubt there are better ones available, but mine works reasonably well (though not for an area the size of a widebody fuselage, but again, it's a really easy problem to solve).

**** that. I do not want to be on a plane where the pilot is like "Yea sure cmon in!" You stay in your area, I'll stay in mine.

OMG. I am involved in aviation and find that, post 9/11, this is happening in Canada or US. The LAST person I would want in the cockpit is a passenger wanting to.....well....visit the cockpit.

I'm telling you all, Australian outback! Plane landed there, refueled, was flown to iran/wherever. Passengers are stranded in the outback!

Mid-flight you do this??

I'm pretty sure you need to be an active pilot to use the jump seat and I assume you need to be verified before doing it. At least by the rules.

im curious, why do u own a phone signal jammer?

I agree. I don't mind because I like it better in the front than in the back, but tbh I'd rather not have a stranger come look around in the cockpit myself. They might be selective with who they let in the cockpit, but the fact I am not a guy, not scary-looking shouldn't change anything. If I have bad intentions I would have probably thought through the fact I can't take 2 pilots down in a whiff... Good thing I always just want to enjoy the view up there and chat with the pilots about their plane etc.

especially mid-flight. They usually don't allow it close to take-off and landing because they are more busy.

Good point. And on a side note, id love to visit your cockpit aswell

I myself wouldn't allow it ever

When the Aliens do come I bet you won't be so smug and self-assured then, will ya smart guy?

haha. Firm but straight! Good girl

LOL

Some pilot dude on CNN said saying "Alright, good night." on the radio is inappropriate and code for telling air traffic that something is wrong.

If they have all the passengers still, and want money... Just float out a picture of whose "up first" say you want your $100 Billion by tomorrow at 3pm. If not received, float picture of first ups head blown off, followed by who's up next. Easiest game ever.

Lock to get your 100 Billi

I hear it all the time. Its totally standard to hear that when on an instrument flight plan or with flight following in general aviation. I live right on the edge of coverage between seattle center and oakland center. Hear it all the time handed off from one to the other.

This took way too long to get made. Well done.

yeah there's no such code in aviation land that I know of, besides the transponder code you punch in when you have an emergency, hijack or radio communications failure. CNN dude makes quite the statement there. I don't know how those things work over there, but yes officially it's not standard radio communications, but it happens all over the world. They say hi and bye when entering and leaving the frequency. Wishing someone a good night wouldn't be considered weird but rather polite in the countries I flew. Maybe it's different there. Ofcourse that's just part of what he said, maybe it makes more sense with the rest of his story which I don't know or haven't seen.

You should get that receiver out of your ear

but yeah you're right, it's pretty standard to greet on the radio, although the FAA R/T officials might disagree (read;deny).

what country in the world is giving terrorists $100,000,000,000 for 250 people?

and let say that did happen (and under no circumstances would it, for many reasons), that's the most traced/tracked money in the history of money.

some rando from Malaysia goes from busto beggar to having $100 billion and everyone's like, 'yeah, musta just found some rich tourists to buy some trinkets'...lol

I stole it from reddit.

What gives rise to the ambiguity re the 2 possible routes the plane may have taken?

I don't use it any more, but have to keep students in my classes from texting the whole time, which was disruptive. I used it a few times but eventually decided it wasn't worth bothering to turn it on.

The satellite data.

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They can see which 'degree' it would have had to be on and then they look at how far it could have flown in that time and based on that they presume it could be in the highlighted areas.