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Happened with the ethiopian airliner several years ago. the hijacker commanded the pilots to fly them to a certain place. the pilot said we're going to run out of gas, we won't make it there and tried to do it anyway. >> wouldn't they have a moment to push a may day button to let the ground know what's going on. >> there isn't a may day button. would you have to put in a discreet transponder code of 7600 or 7700, depending on what the circumstance, is and then push the ident button so the air traffic controllers would find it on the radar. may not have had time to do that if this kind of situa...
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