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Old 12th Mar 2014, 17:25
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GarageYears
 
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@ mabuhay_2000:

I've worked with computers for... hmm... all my working life, in the aviation industry, one way or another, and some things are plausible, while other not. The idea that a T7 "computer system" could be hacked is, shall we say, less likely than the idea that this aircraft was hit by a meteor in my opinion. At one point I worked on a T7 flight simulator that used the entire aircraft AIMS system avionics boxes, and despite full access to the source code, those boxes were basically impossible to interface to, other than via their intended interfaces. As you might know, one function of flight simulators is to allow certain malfunctions to be introduced, to allow fault conditions to be trained, but this was extremely difficult in this case.
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