Reply #11: you could stand to read more closely... [View All]

[OnTheOtherHand]

OTOH: P911T cites the United dispatcher who sent many of these messages....

spooked: By the way, it was actually Ballinger who sent the messages....

Gee, ya think?

(I said "many" because -- well, surely you've put enough time into this to know why. Right?)

Again, the issue isn't whether Ballinger "know(s) something about how ACARS works."

Nor is it clear from your perusing of the technical documentation that the necessary message was sent of non-acknowledgement. Indeed, if the message wasn't received, then it is automatically resent. Not clear that these were resent.

You're almost making sense. Indeed it isn't clear that the messages were resent. Is it clear that the messages weren't resent? I've seen very few hard facts about what these logs actually log.

Also, kind of funny that Ballinger sends the message that two aircraft have hit the WTC-- TO FLIGHT 175, the flight he is supposed to be monitoring!

Apparently that's one of over a dozen identical messages that he sent to his planes within a two-minute period. You think he should have paused to consider whether to take 175 off the list? to the extent that it's sort of suspicious that he didn't? Really?