Kan flyet hijackes og styres av en app? Nei

Airplane navigation through mobile applications?

The news that had been doing rounds earlier this week about how applications can be used to navigate an airplane and control various operations of a plane had been doing rounds. This information was provided by a German information technology consultant Hugo Tero, who had claimed that he had developed an Android application that will help him control navigation of aircrafts. In addition, this application would help him play simple pranks in the aircraft like dropping of oxygen masks from the aircrafts ceiling and grave things like crashing one plane in to the other.

Tero had successfully demonstrated the mentioned hacking of airplane systems in a closed system using PC-based simulation software and was also sure that these tasks would be easy to perform on a live aircraft it was found the different security flaws that can exist. The Federal Aviation Administration or the FAA has stated that this is indeed a threat to flight safety but cannot be done through a computer, as the aviation system does not allow any hacker to gain access to complete control of an aircraft. There are a lot of differences between an aviation control software and a PC based simulation software that cannot be overcome by any software specialist but a certified flight software specialist. Hackers who want to create problems to these systems though can use such information.

Fortunately, for the flyers this is good news as their flights would be safe and more measures would now be taken to ensure complete safety of the passengers on board. Tero has not let loose the explanation to this development and also claims that he is working with the agencies of the Government to make sure that all the systems are well protected against any hacking and making the necessary updates to the system to avoid any misfortune.