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These a cars. it took off here in kuala lumpur. did someone plot a course or the plane was just pinging off the towers? >> way points are like exits on highways on a road. say you are driving down a road and you see an exit. a way point is just an exit to another air route. they are definitively defined points in space. when we start talking about an airplane that was steered to a way point, that takes an intentional effort on the part of a flight crew. the fact that we have one, two, three, four way points means that bottom line, someone or an auto pilot that was preprogrammed to fly this rou...
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