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Comment Re:The auto pilot (Score 1, Interesting) 208

no it was hacked
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

Wrigley says that the pilot can always turn off autopilot if the plane starts making unexpected course changes. If someone did hack into the aircraft and take over the plane using the flight management computer, they would have had no means of keeping that control. "If an aircraft flight management system could be hacked by remote control, it would cause a lot of confusion on the flight deck, but I can't imagine that any pilot would just sit back and watch while the aircraft changed course." In that event surely they would find some way of communicating the problem.

Sounds like the AirAsia crash reports of issues with the flight management computer and the talk of the pilot trying to reset it.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

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