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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 18 02:10:03 2014, in response to Ex-El Al expert: Iran likely involved in MH 370 Read more: Ex-El Al expert: Iran likely involved in, posted by DAnD124 on Mon Mar 17 00:08:13 2014. I'm gonna toss this one in here because an article in the NYTimes raised an interesting possibility to my mind:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html Mentioned in the article is that the FMS ("Flight Management System") computer can not only be operated by the pilots in the keyboard, but also REMOTELY to set waypoint instructions by the airline. I'm going to guess that this can be done over a communication link and therefore my own mind is wondering if it isn't possible (given this) that the plane conceivably could have been hacked. Iran, North Korea, China, Syria and a number of other nations have digital warriors FAR more competent than ours and thus I'm wondering if this might be a possibility. Since we have some pilots here, I'm wondering if the FMS could also be hooked up to other COMM systems and possibly a mass pwnage of the plane could have left the pilots unable to do anything if the system locked out their keyboard and prevented dropping out the auto pilot. I know it's far fetched and all, but I've seen even stranger pwnage. And Iran discovered the other day that their nuclear facilities had been "cyber-attacked" as well. What I don't get is why they would hit THIS particular flight, but I'm curious as to how FMS works in terms of "could it be?" My theory here would depend on how the airline can "preload" waypoints into that system and I have no idea of how it actually works. Flyboys? Any ideas? :) |
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