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AngryAmish

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8. A friend of mine bricked his 777 by spilling a cup of coffee

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 09:41 PM

May 2015

All glass cockpit? Great until it turns off. Radio? Bricked too. Controls still worked somehow.

Then the stupid copilot put the code for hijacking instead of no radio. They almost got shot down. Luckily he was an old F 15 pilot and somehow kept his passengers alive.

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