Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@brl-vgr From: ron@brl-vgr@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: KAL007 Message-ID: <12156@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 16:39:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12156 Posted: Thu Sep 29 16:39:40 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Oct-83 21:47:31 EDT Lines: 8 From: Ron Natalie The whole point of inertial navigation systems is not to use radio. (Hence INERTIAL before NAVIGATION). Of course, it might be jammed by an electromagnetic pulse, perhaps the Soviets detonated a nuclear device nearby to lure the plane off course. -Ron