> i highly doubt an IC could make something like this happen without approval from somebody. It would be a huge risk. I'd bet at least beer money that this was

> i highly doubt an IC could make something like this happen without approval from somebody. It would be a huge risk. I'd bet at least beer money that this was some "IC" career 747 guy (or bunch of guys) who organised, planned, and authorised this without actual authority, because he was "a 747 guy" and he tendered his retirement 3 months ago and today was his last day. And a delivery pilot who was either in on it or was prepared to claim plausible deniability and that he was just following the autopilots pre-planned route, which he assumed was fully authorised. What's the huge risk? They're gonna fire him???