Just a quick question. Is it possible to hack the computer systems of these planes?
Don’t know..................
Everything can be hacked on a plane.
Last I saw there was no evidence of human remains found, but suspiciously and conveniently intact photos, etc., of the the supposed victims were located there. No major plane body. Seeming like a possible “Let’s roll” flight, whereby the passengers might have been bused into a hangar and disposed of otherwise, while a healthy plane continued on for a future life and the supposed crash scene was prepared in advance.
I'm not an aviation expert, but modern airplanes various systems communicate in real-time with ground receivers and Boeing collects this data. I believe the general architecture and systems are similar to how Drones and UAVs are controlled. Remember also that a couple years ago, Iran supposedly hacked a US drone and forced it to land in Iran.
So yes, I believe it would be hackable - but it would be a very sophisticated and high-level hack.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
As a Mondey morning quarterback, when the pilot couldn't override the auto pilot with the control yoke, this jackscrew displacement indicates that he cranked the trim tab all the way forward.
What it renders down to is that the pilot didn't have a full understanding of the systems on his aircraft. Is it the pilot, or the aircraft? That, I will leave to others.
Better question: Does a Chinese-born engineer work in the department that wrote the code for the MCAS software?
I cannot for a second believe that this aircraft passed flight testing prior to certification for a software bug which governs hands-on manual flight without any incidents whatsoever.
If it did experience problems during flight testing, I hope a thorough investigation is brought to an effective conclusion and not just ‘passed over’...
Of course it is.
And these systems are run by tremendously complex software, and bugs -- serious ones -- are inevitable.
Proper security addresses the first concern, and proper QA addresses the second. But you can't guarantee hack-free or bug-free. You can only make failures less likely.