BUFDRVR wrote:

Mailman wrote:

...which proves, yet again, how little journalists understand: setting the
transponder/IFF to emergency mode is done in a hijacking - or any other
emergency.

Uhhh...no. The ICAO transponder emergency distress code is 7700 while
hijacking is (I think??) 7200. There's also one for NORDO (No Radio) which
I think is 7600.

That would show or not, depending on the interrogator. I have no idea what
kind of coverage (and with what equipment) the Russians have. Even the
old(er) IFF on some Western military radars cannot always tell them apart.
--
Mailman


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