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You have to have emergency plans before you ever take off. you have to have enough fuel to get to your primary and secondary in case something happens. so you actually program and have flight coordinates for airports other than the ones that youre going to but its to deal with emergencies or weather or problems at the airport and you cant get in. so its just a backup plan. >> patrick, i want to ask -- lets see. this one is from keith. could the transponder have been reprogrammed to emit a differ...

Minute ago, its real important that we establish the timeline, the communications timeline versus the acars timeline, make sure they match up and make sure thats accurate information before we start to rule out certain possibilities. meanwhile, mr. beatty made a comment a minute ago that i almost had to jump in. the reason a cell phone doesnt work from an airplane isnt because its being jammed by a signal from a foreign country, its because youre not near a cell tower. a cell phone just wont wor...