Originally Posted by chornedsnorkack
While flying with transponder left turned off is illegal, it is probably not that big deal, compared to the safety of airframe in respect to things like overspeeding, upsets and structural integrity of the plane. "Aviate, navigate, communicate"... one guesses that a pilot regaining control of cockpit would not think of switching on the transponder until after dealing with a lot of other urgent business!
So as I understand, there should be a possibility that the transponder was turned on by intelligent actions, small, but possible, is this correct?
What I am getting from everyone is that it was possible but not likely?
What was the probability for the tranponder to be turned on by accident and the probability by an intellegent human? 50%/50% or 90%/10% or simplly 100%/0%?