__/ [ Bobbie ] on Sunday 23 July 2006 07:38 \__
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:11:19 +0100, Stephen Fairchild wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Anti-hijack software under development
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | 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, according to the German news
>>> | magazine.
>>> `----
>>>
>> Now just wait until the first aircraft gets 0wn3d. The press will have a
>> field day.
>
> Hasn't there been a couple of incidents with the computers on the Airbus.
I did a quick Web search and all I could find were many comments in the
following item:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/03/1639249.shtml?tid=126
Search page for 'airbus'. Here is just one snippet:
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| Ding ding ding! Thank you. One need look only as far as the Airbus
| A-320that crashed at an airshow while doing a low fly-by; the computer
| prevented
| the pilot from increasing power to the engines, and the plane mowed a
| 200 foot wide swath through the forest and exploded in flames.
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