The article talks about needing to pull a circuit breaker to kill the transponde...

		bdonlan on March 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Expert Was Needed to Disable Malaysia Airlines Jet... The article talks about needing to pull a circuit breaker to kill the transponder - I thought the transponder had a mode selection switch on the pedestal that could be set to standby; is there something else to it that I'm missing?

Presumably it needed total disabling, not just switching off...