Each day there is a new theory what has had happened. Now some claims
someone from the passengers may had hacked the plane using radio devices or
USB connecting to the onboard entertaining system and "remote controlled"
the plane. Although I would not say it is completely impossible, sounds
like a hollywood movie to me. For that someone needs to plant the malicious
code into the firmware of the airplane before flying and then the trigger
device activates that code -- or the exploitation needs to be done while
flying. This is really interesting as I thought all curtail electronics on
board is tripled, and three different companies / teams are designing and
producing the electronics. These electronics needs to either vote or
manually switched, in case something happens. So if this malware theory
true, an attacker needs to know all three devices, hack all of them and
make sure triggered each one of them, right?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/465126/Missing-Malaysia-Airlines-plane-=
may-have-been-cyber-hijacked-using-mobile-phone

Tamas




On 15 March 2014 21:38, Lee Jones <lee@frumble.claremont.edu> wrote:

> > Unstalled a u2 apparently "just wants to fly" and coaxing
> > it down was apparently a difficult task.
>
> I read about a U2 incident over ConUS (continental US).
> Flight was being handled by normal air traffic control
> centers.  Pilot was somewhere over Utah(?) -- as normal,
> pretty high up -- and reported his engine had flamed out.
>
> Controller was thinking emergency and asked pilot his
> intentions.  Pilot said he was going to glide to his
> base in California -- he was just giving them a heads
> up that he couldn't accept any reroutes or holds.
>
> May be ap apocryphal but probably has a grain of truth.
> Starting at 70,000' with U2's reported 23:1 engine out
> glide ratio, plane can go over 300 miles before landing.
> [Engine out glide ratio may even be higher than that.]
>
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