Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140317:11:40:00
Off position. that is real easy to turn off. the acars on this airplane you can never turn off that box itself because this box is continuously energized and why we have the ping after we lost the data. it's the data part that was disabled. and it takes a series of key strokes on an information system and a key pad to actually take the data system down. somebody would have to have a high level of knowledge of how to do that because that is not something that a lot of pilots would know, even under normal operations. >> steve rattner? >> so as a pilot, i agree with that, but even if you managed ...
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