Originally Posted by
bille1319
I doubt if all the pax were duped. I usually carry a hand held satnav which works fine by a window seat. Surely there must have been a few awake by the window seats could see that the a/c had changed course dramatically and it being a half moon that night would cast changing shadows on the wing. Therefore it would seem to me that intervention by the pax is highly likely at the later end.
Maybe. Surely most were taking a nap, as it was the midnight to dawn flight from KL to Beijing. You'd want to be rested if you had a meeting the next day, eh?
edit: thanks to threemiles for recalibrating me on the above.
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Originally Posted by GF
I'm also, based on years of military experience, somewhat cynical about military capability everyone assumes exists.
That's at least two of us. Having an air defense system does not provide omniscience. Sad but true, given the expense of such things.