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		keypusher on March 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/S... No, you misunderstand. Stephenson actually had a hijacked 747 in one of his books shadowing another to avoid radar detection in the same way as described by this article.

kps on March 18, 2014 [–]

In REAMDE, not a 747 but a small private jet.

The story also had the jet ‘disappear’ on the boundary between ATC zones. This was actually the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the first reports about MH370.

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