[ExI] suicide pilots

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 10:58 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> *Sent:* Saturday, April 25, 2015 8:17 AM
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> *Subject:* [ExI] suicide pilots
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> >…“Modern aircraft are increasingly connected to the Internet,” notes a
> U.S. Government Accountability Office report. “This interconnectedness can
> potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics
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> >…Why not monitor all planes and when one is screeching towards the
> earth, just take remote control of it and prevent pilots from crashing?
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> The military already does this, but it doesn’t need to communicate with
> the ground.  The technology is called ACFIT for
> Anti-Controlled-Flight-Into-Terrain.  If the plane is plummeting, it
> decides when to assume the pilot has perished or lost consciousness, and
> takes control of itself, preventing its violent contact with the planet.
> Every airliner has a ground proximity warning, that urgent manly voice
> often heard in the last seconds on the voice cockpit recordings urging
> “Pull up!  Pull up!”  Most airliner controls are already fly-by-wire.  If
> the plane knows to advise the pilot to pull up, the plane can be enabled to
> pull up.
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​Well then, it appears that all they need to do is to enable the ground
computer to seize control of the plane and lock the pilots out- shouting at
them apparently did not work​


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