john smith
Pre-takeoff checklist
From Security Now #263, 25 August 2010...
Spanair’s 2008 crash which killed 154 of 172 people because take-off flaps and slats failed to extend as they should have, may have malware implications
Spanair’s Maintenance System was infected with malware, believed to have been spread through a Flash Drive, which might have prevented it from alarming about the problem which, had it done so, would have grounded the plane pending investigation. Internal Spanair documents pointed to “Trojans” causing its central computer — designed to monitor fault messages transmitted from the aircraft — to fail.
Spanair’s 2008 crash which killed 154 of 172 people because take-off flaps and slats failed to extend as they should have, may have malware implications
Spanair’s Maintenance System was infected with malware, believed to have been spread through a Flash Drive, which might have prevented it from alarming about the problem which, had it done so, would have grounded the plane pending investigation. Internal Spanair documents pointed to “Trojans” causing its central computer — designed to monitor fault messages transmitted from the aircraft — to fail.
