7 Feb
2018
7 Feb
'18
12:23 a.m.
Maybe the autopilot? Still, overly simplistic.
On 2/6/2018 12:42 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
I find the story hard to believe. A "CLB"
command causes the engines to make the airplane climb? It doesn’t work that way.
I'm a little familiar with the 757 autothrottles and the overall Airbus logic (if
you think a modern UNIX OS looks bizarrely complex, take a look at Airbus "flight
law" sometimes);.
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Literally, googled "hacker controlled plane engine"
https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/17/us/fbi-hacker-flight-computer-systems/index.…
On 2/5/2018 5:31 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
Someone with better search skills than me can
probably turn up news
articles on both events.