CNN Chicagoland March 17, 2014 08:54:00
Piece of equipment? >> well, many pilots who are interested in aviation will, indeed, have a flight simulator at home, whether it's microsoft flight simulator or some such similar thing. this particular pilot had a rather more sophisticated system, but it's entirely possible it was for perfectly innocent purposes. however, having got this equipment, it is possible, of course, to plan possible scenarios, and the suggestion here being that he may have hijacked his own aircraft and practiced the flight using this equipment. so, obviously, the authorities will be looking at the recording data on h...