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Subject: Re: KAL flight - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 6-Sep-83 05:48:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  6 05:48:32 1983
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inmet!bloom    Sep  6 01:11:00 1983


***** inmet:net.followup / vortex!lauren /  9:18 pm  Sep  3, 1983
   One particularly alarming story is now circulating.  The story
   is that sometime recently on the same KAL flight route at about
   the same point in the route where the recent flight was downed,
   flight personnel were running around the cabin getting all
   passengers to close their window blinders.  One passenger
   (who told this story) peeked out, and noticed that all of the
   navigational lights had been turned off!


I find this more unbelievable than alarming ... can you imagine the 
airline pilot (who constantly uses radar and radionavigation during
flights) who thinks that by blacking out his plane, he won't be seen
by the more sensitive military radar??

					Ray Bloom
					{harpo, ima, esquire}!inmet!bloom