Originally posted by AMTMAN: There is no system in existance that would allow anyone to take over an airliner without that aircraft
having been modified. In other words unless an airline purposely modifies it's aircraft it is not going to happen. Do your homework.
Just to address the technical aspects of how remote control of an airliner would be achieved unknown to the airline involved. According to David
Hawkins of
www.hawkscafe.com... ,Boeing, a leading defense industry contractor, has been illegally outfitting airliners with a military grade
gyrochip that allows for remote control of the airliner that is impossible for a pilot to override. (See content below.) He says that Lufthansa is one
airline that found out about it and had technicians take the chips out.
Hawkins believes that airliners with that chip were used on 9/11. He believes that further modifications to the planes were made by a company that
specializes in such things in British Columbia.
These modified planes were then folded into the scenario on 9/11 using the Iridium66 satellite communications network. He has a lot of detailed info
on this on his website.
seattletimes.nwsource.com...
QRS-11 gyrochip
Between 2000 and 2003, Boeing exported commercial jets with a QRS-11 gyrochip in the instrument flight boxes, even though the chip was classified by
the State Department as an export-restricted defense item because it can be used to stabilize and steer guided missile
www.straightaero.com...
Are Boeing fitting their aircraft with illegal devices that could enable terrorists to remotely hijack airliners and crash them into high profile
targets? In light of what happened on 9/11, Boeing's blanket denial that this practice has taken place is both highly suspicious and a threat to
national security . . .
According to the Seattle Times, "The QRS-11 chip, made by a unit of BEI Technologies in Concord, Calif., is just over 1-½ inches in diameter and
weighs about 2 ounces. It sells for between $1,000 and $2,000. Described as "a gyro on a chip," it is used to help control the flight of missiles
and aircraft." . . .
Recent newspaper reports discussing these devices and the policy to have them in all airliners within three years assure us that they would prevent
another 9/11 style outrage - but because anysuch system is vulnerable to hacking allied with the fact that pilots have no way of overriding the
autopilot, not even with secure access codes, this only increases the chances of another 9/11 style attack.
A comprehensive investigation on behalf of those who have the authority and resources to perform it needs to be mandated immediately into whether
devices that completely remove control of a plane from the pilot and that have illegally been installed in many existing aircraft are a fundamental
danger to national security.
Description of the Iridium66 communications system:
www.hawkscafe.com...
I just wanted to ad a postscript to the above. Hawkins has an elaborately developed scenario to explain the motives and aims of the perps on 9/11.
They are quite different from what most CT'ers would imagine. I don't know whether to buy his line of thinking or not. On the technical side,
however, he sticks very close to things which, though murky, are being looked into by others as well. One very important fact to consider is the very
tight relationship between Boeing and the DOD.
Hawkins believes that three or four other highly suspicious crashes of airliners around the globe may be related to the presence of the special gyro
chip being discussed.
[edit on 25-2-2008 by ipsedixit]
[edit on 25-2-2008 by ipsedixit]