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Old 27th Mar 2010, 19:58
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parabellum
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And we still have the security aspect. No matter how sophisticated the automation is, or how many levels of redundancy are built in, there is still the possibility that a well armed and organised terrorist unit with suicidal tendencies could take over ground control stations, either by force or by using more powerful jamming equipment and carnage would be the result. They would probably do this in a fairly remote area with known sympathies to their cause, remote on the ground, that is, the skies overhead may well be very busy. Committed terrorists may even try it in a complacent part of Europe, being suicidal why would they care? They would still have control long enough to create a disaster that would make every disaster to date look insignificant by comparison.

(Yes, I do keep banging on the security drum as most others seem only to consider levels of automation or the influence of bean counters!).
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