Approximately 30 European companies and research institutes are collaborating to develop software with a special mission: to regain control of aircraft that are being hijacked.
According to exclusive information published by Germany’s Der Spiegel, this system will allow ground control to take back command of an aircraft, forcing it to land at the nearest airport, regardless of the pilot’s wishes.
“The hijacker will have no opportunity to achieve their goals,” Der Spiegel reported.
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This project has an investment cost of up to 36 million euros, with contributions from the European Commission, the aviation giant Airbus, electronics giant Siemens, and the Technical University of Munich.
The first results will be presented in the UK next October. The system will be designed so thoroughly that even if there is a hacker among the hijackers on the plane, they will not be able to turn the situation around.
If this software can be released to the market, it will put an end to the long-standing debate in Germany about whether the air force should shoot down civilian aircraft in cases where hijackers intend to turn planes into weapons.
The most notable example of this situation is the September 11 attacks targeting locations in New York and Washington.
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