Pilot Accidentally Relays ‘Hijack’ Code
Deputies and a SWAT team surrounded a plane at the Georgetown County Airport after one of the pilots accidentally entered a code saying the aircraft has been hijacked.
According to ABC7, State Ports Authority Chairman Harry Butler was flying the plane from Georgetown to Columbia on Thursday morning when he lost both radios. The weather wasn’t good enough to land in Columbia without the radio, so he turned back to the coast, where it was clear.
En route, his co-pilot sent a message on a signal device. He was supposed to type 7600, which means “lost communications.” But instead, he punched in 7500, which reports a hijacking, Butler said.
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Oct 6, 2005 at 4:24 pm
[...] The post at Simply Dumb (part of the B5Media network), regarding a pilot relaying hijack code was quite humorous. “. He was supposed to type 7600, which means “lost communications.” But instead, he punched in 7500, which reports a hijacking, Butler said.” [...]
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