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Re:Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours by Blahah on Thursday March 13, 2014 @03:42AM (#7390498)
>You just need to turn off your transponder, and you can fly wherever you want?

Just from reading comments in the linked piece, it seems that is true for some parts of the world. The malay military didn't have an operational air defence radar system, or they might have had a better idea where it was going. And there are areas around the Bay of Bengal with no radar coverage either, which, if the plane was hijacked, might be where it headed.

Re:Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours by BorisMelnik on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:14AM (#7390583)
so much for China's unstoppable military
Re:Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours by pjc50 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:21AM (#7390596)
Malaysia is not China? For most of the plane's expected flight it was outside Chinese airspace.