From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 00:27:20 MDT
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> The wire harnesses generally travel along the dorsal spine of the
> aircraft, above the passenger compartment, or else along the walls of
> the cargo compartment, depending on the plane.
>
> In such a case pilots, once they lock themselves in the cockpit, have
> taken themselves out of the equation. They can land the plane, and
> negotiators show up an hour later, just in time to watch the plane take
> off again under the control of the hijackers flying by laptop.
This specific scenario has been discussed in the relevant forums and found
to be extremely improbable. You make it sound like an unskilled (skilled
people don't fly suicide missions) only needs to plug a laptop into a
network. It sure ain't so.
Besides, if the plane is on the ground you can either dump the fuel or
trigger a trapdoor box out of reach which needs manual resetting.
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