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Good night" means? >> at that point in the flight, the plane is already on automatic pilot. that plane went on to automatic pilot probably a minute and a half if not sooner after it took off from kuala lumpur. it's basically -- it's like you leaving the -- one person's office and going into another person's office. because you've been told to go from a to b. you're literally saying, thanks very much. good night. and then the next transmission would normally have been the pilot, what we call the npf. the non-pilot flying, he would have switched his radio to vietnam's wavelength and calmed out, ...
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