Re: Protection on flights

[Arclight <arclight@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:26 16.09.2001 -0400, CHam628781@aol.com wrote:

>Of course the best way to prevent a hijacking is to have a pilotless 
>aircraft controlled completely by a combimation of on-board and ground 
>based systems. It's doable now and with sufficient back-ups would probably 
>be safer than flying in a human piloted plane.

Researchers at the munich technical university have already build a 
collision-evasion system, which is going to be integrated into the next 
generation of transport aircraft for the german airforce. With that system, 
transportes ca fly at about 30m AGL without the need of a pilot.
Also, Airbus has already started to build a feature into their airliners, 
which makes it possible for ground control to steer an aircraft against the 
pilots will. Ok, one problem solved, next one arises in that case...

Arclight