
Passenger Planes Shot Down
Black Box Down
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Air Lines 15 Couldn't Communicate With Air Traffic Control.
At the height of the coal war, planes were flying between us and soviet air space. Air lines 15 used high frequency radios which have a higher range than very high frequent but there's vulnerable interference and static they didn't understand. The end result is, o seven couldn't directly communicate with air traffic control. So there's really no way for them to know. There's no way for anyone to tell them,. They probably should have noticed that they were off course, buti didn't notice. Chrisye: But if you think about it like a risk map, you think about that eastr you tink about a world map. You ever play risk?Chrisye: We'll
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