{"id":549623,"date":"2006-07-24T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549623-anti-hijack-software-under-development.html"},"modified":"2006-07-24T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T11:48:35","slug":"anti-hijack-software-under-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549623-anti-hijack-software-under-development.html","title":{"rendered":"Anti-hijack software under development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The system &quot;which could only be controlled from the ground would conduct the aircraft posing a problem to the nearest airport whether it liked it or not,&quot; according to extracts from Der Spiegel. &quot;A hijacker would have no chance of reaching his goal,&quot; it\u00a0 said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The project costs 36 million euros (45 million dollars), of which the European Commission is contributing 19.5 million euros,\u00a0 and involves aircraft maker Airbus, electronics giant Siemens and the Technical University of Munich. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The first results should be presented in Britain in October, the magazine said. The system would be designed in such a way that even a computer hacker on board could not get round it. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">If the software should see the light of day it would put an end to a debate in Germany over whether the air force should shoot down a hijacked commercial airliner if the hijackers threatened to use it\u00a0 as a weapon, as in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>INet-Bridge ||<\/em>\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=48736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 30 European businesses and research institutes are working to create software that would make it possible from a distance to regain control of an aircraft from hijackers, according to the German news magazine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}