Update:April 14/15...US/FAA announced today that commercial jetliners can be hacked in flight by a passenger with a lap top or from the ground. The plane can literally be hijacked in flight leaving the pilots as passengers. This answers my question described below. The Malaysian flight that is still lost comes to mind.
At 72 years of age computers to me are science fiction. I took the Environmental Studies course a York University ( the first time it was offered...around 1969) and we were still using punch cards at that time. So I'm limited in computer sciences.
I have a question for the people in the know. Is it possible for the computer on a commercial airliner to be "hacked" in flight? Is it possible for the flight crew to lose all control of the aircraft thus becoming passengers with no ground communication available to them? I ask this as the last three crashes have been suspicious. Also, a pilot can fly a drone over Afghanistan from Washington. D.C. and destroy a target on the ground. Does it therefore follow that a commercial aircraft can be "hacked" in flight?
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