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April 12th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
The app itself appears as an animated cockpit complete with buttons to direct
the aircraft to a specific location or send it crashing to the ground.
One function would make lights flash inside the cockpit, giving a terrified
pilot the impression that the aircraft’s systems were failing.
The hacking would only work if the aircraft was set to autopilot and could be
overrode by a pilot manually retaking control of the plane, Mr Teso said.
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said it did not believe Mr Teso’s
claim to be able to take over an aircraft.
“The described technique cannot engage or control the aircraft’s autopilot
system using the [flight management systems] or prevent a pilot from
overriding the autopilot,” it said in a statement. “Therefore, a hacker
cannot obtain ‘full control of an aircraft’ as the technology consultant has
claimed.”
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