Originally Posted by
Ian W
The range ring for the logon passed through the last radar reponse location +/- 3 miinutes to the accuracy of these rings. This was verified by comparing the known and calculated position of other aircraft.
I suspect this is one of the reasons for believing the aircraft was intentionally disappeared, as it's consistent with someone turning the power back on shortly after they knew they'd be out of radar range. I believe someone mentioned a few thousand posts back that the SATCOM terminal is on the same power bus as some other communication equipment, so turning off the power to that bus would turn all that equipment off.