With today's technology, mainly communication technology, I JUST CAN NOT
    BELIEVE that in 5 hours flying in automatic pilot, it is not possible to
    download information from a Learjet board computer and understand why
    everybody aboard is dead or unconscious, and otherwise try to land it
    even in a bad landing, better than wait it to crash.
        :
    I don't want to start a discussion here, not even a fight about [OT]s
    but just transmit the idea, that when you develop something, please
    think about safety and how it can impact human lifes, even being a small
    PIC unit using a powerful explosive NiCad or Lithium battery.

"Safety" is usually at odds with other values that people claim to believe
in, such as privacy, affordability, accessability, and a large number of
factors that are usually lumped together under the heading of "freedom."
While the situation you descrive above is sad, it is also preferrable, I
think, to crackers posting pictures of famous people looking weird as they
sleep in airline seats, or assorted types of espionage carried out by
similar mechanisms.  (rather like that revolution that succeeded because
there was no back-door to the encryption algorithm that sealed the existing
goverments armaments.  Sad, but better than the alternative.)

"Those who would trade their liberty for safety deserve neither."  (Or
something like that.  Ben Franklin.)

OTOH, even as I type over here, there is source code over there that I'm
working on which will add the off-requested "tap" feature to cisco terminal
servers, to aid in "debugging" of complex async problems and such, where
you'd like to see the data stream that's happening on some other terminal.
For years I've fought this on privacy and "attractive nusiance" values, but
I'm finally giving in based on the "there are a lot of other ways to do
basically the same thing, anyway."  There's little doubt that elsewhere in
the company, people are working on other parts of the federally mandated
wiretap features...

BillW