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dipsydoodle

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Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:25 AM Jun 2014

Power outage leads to MH370 hijacking theory

Hijackers may have tampered with cockpit equipment on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in an attempt to avoid radar detection, experts analyzing a report released by an Australian government agency said.

The report, released by the The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, showed there was a power outage that happened within 90 minutes of the missing jet leaving Kuala Lumpur.

The "not common" power event caused the Boeing 777's satellite unit to attempt to log on to a satellite after power was restored.

The process of the plane attempting to connect to a satellite is known as a "handshake".

“A log-on request in the middle of a flight is not common and can occur for only a few reasons,” the investigators said.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/24350399/malaysia-airlines-hijacking-theory/

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