Software That Fights Plane Hijackers.
Yahoo!News has a very curious story today about software fights plane hijackers. Essentially, some 30 European businesses and research institutes are working to create software that would make it possible from a distance to regain control of an aircraft from hijackers.
The system "which could only be controlled from the ground would conduct the aircraft posing a problem to the nearest airport whether it liked it or not," according to extracts from next Monday's Der Spiegel released Saturday.
"A hijacker would have no chance of reaching his goal," it said.
The project costs 36 million euros (45 million dollars), of which the
European Commission is contributing 19.5 million euros, and involves aircraft maker Airbus, electronics giant Siemens and the Technical University of Munich.
The first results should be presented in
The system would be designed in such a way that even a computer hacker on board could not get round it.
If the software should see the light of day it would put an end to a debate in
posted by UncommonBusiness at 6:30 AM
4 Comments:
Soon enough pilots could be out of work if this goes well.
Yea! Go technology! But I'm sure some hacker will figure out a way to override it. Then what?!?
If that's the case, why would we even need a pilot. They can just fly the planes from start to finish. What will a hijacker do when he rushes into the cockpit and nobody is flying the thing?
I don't see the benefit.
If terrorists were threatening to blow up a plane unless their demands were met, forcibly landing it won't solve the problem. They'd be shredded before they landed.
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