More MH370 stuff

jynxyjoe said:
You'd need a 25 pin jack on some of them, and I think the 777 has a USB but I don't think there's one in the AV compartment. Once you get in you can't edit flight parameters. I'm going off memory here and that wasn't really my focus but it was something we had to deal with testing boxes that needed to monitor inputs/outputs of the boxes. Normally it involved a lot of transformer and MOV isolation so we didn't fry the laptop AND the box.

So the next thing you'll need a hacker who is familiar with proprietary software, and (essentially) driver code. Using his stolen password of "Jeff" (The writer of the program's name is Jeff Jeff'ty Jeff born in Jeff, Jeff in nineteen-Jeff'ty Jeff), he hacks in and changes all the parameters of the flight control computer and lowers the G/S to 2.00. The entire plan goes to crap because he just figured out he needs to get all three independent computers to show the same thing at the same time and he only brought one laptop. The system is just doing too good a job ignoring the new crap info (from the hacker's laptop) that doesn't gel with the other ADC's. So he takes his penknife he snuck aboard and snips the blue wires on the other two ADC's which feed information into the central unit (whatever it's called on this airplane) which integrates all the information from all the systems. Plot twist: he's been color blind since birth and never knew it so, the wires were actually the dreaded red wires.

Finally, after snipping the dreaded red wires on the ADC the computer naturally reverts to a system bias test which drops innane trivia into the FMC's up top in the cockpit. The Captain and FO's weren't trained under the dumbest eff's in the planet at Pinnacle Airlines, so when the question came up "How many fuse plugs are on each tire?" and he answer 4 the plane blew up.

I'm going to hell.
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Read this at work and started cracking up!!! So wrong.....and yet funny.

Guess I will see you in hell.....
 
JordanD said:
I would think if it was anything malicious somebody would be pretty quick to claim they did it.
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Yup.

The point of terrorism isn't usually killing for the sake of killing. But rather to scare an entire group of people so they revert into a bunch of pansies so scared of their own shadow that they are willing to let smurf fondle their genitals in order to declare them safe to board an airplane.
 
sorrygottarunway said:
Oh come on, you always trust a good transporter chief!

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The guy who brought down Windsor 114 because he can't read an altimeter?

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Murdoughnut said:
The guy who brought down Windsor 114 because he can't read an altimeter?

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Didn't the terrorists issue them the wrong altimeter setting also?

Of course, that doesn't explain the excess nose-down dive they were in when they finally broke out of the WX and were looking down at the runway.

And also doesn't explain the few shots of the TRACON where one of the ATC controllers is wielding an E6B computer in hand.
 
MikeD said:
Didn't the terrorists issue them the wrong altimeter setting also?

Of course, that doesn't explain the excess nose-down dive they were in when they finally broke out of the WX and were looking down at the runway.

And also doesn't explain the few shots of the TRACON where one of the ATC controllers is wielding an E6B computer in hand.
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Would an airplane "running on fumes" explode in such an enormous fashion and continue burning afterwards? I like playing this game, shall we do Iron Eagle next?
 
5Right_5Left said:
Would an airplane "running on fumes" explode in such an enormous fashion and continue burning afterwards? I like playing this game, shall we do Iron Eagle next?
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What is a Hades Bomb, what is "it" we're not going to take...anymore, and why doesn't he just bluetooth the music to his headphones?

If a Chester wants to race you on a motorcycle, wouldn't it just work out better to take the hot chick from high school out in your convertible you're daddy bought you while waving your acceptance letter to the Air Force Academy at him while you fill up the tank on your trust fund debit card? That kid didn't have anything to prove, he even had nice hair, just leave Chappy alone and get on with your life. Chuck Norris was one day out with Delta Force to grab his old man from the non descript Libyan country.
 
With all this in mind, next time I non-rev on a long international flight and get stuck in coach, I'm going to grab my iPod Touch and a USB plug and find my way down to the avionics bay and see if I can't at least crank the thing up to Mach .86 to get there a little sooner.


@BobDDuck -- Where do I plug in to change the speed? You can PM this me if you want.
 
ppragman said:
That's pretty spooky
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Put it this way: it'd be easier to control an analog airplane by getting under the floor and yanking on the analog control cables than to actually physically take control of the airplane by "tapping into" the FBW system.
 
JordanD said:
But... what if we want that regardless of the getting on an airplane part?
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Print yourself 50 non-rev boarding passes and just go through security all day.

Roger Roger said:
Put it this way: it'd be easier to control an analog airplane by getting under the floor and yanking on the analog control cables than to actually physically take control of the airplane by "tapping into" the FBW system.
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Have to go for the Mad dog, not the 777.
 
Roger Roger said:
Put it this way: it'd be easier to control an analog airplane by getting under the floor and yanking on the analog control cables than to actually physically take control of the airplane by "tapping into" the FBW system.
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Actually not true at all. There is one data cable between the box that converts analog yoke inputs to digital and the FBW system. The data isn't encrypted and as long as it's valid data it's accepted in to the system.
 
5Right_5Left said:
Would an airplane "running on fumes" explode in such an enormous fashion and continue burning afterwards? I like playing this game, shall we do Iron Eagle next?
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Wait, so you guys are telling me that MH370 was hijacked because Doug didn't play the right music?! Maybe MH370 crashed flying the snake...
 
BobDDuck said:
Actually not true at all. There is one data cable between the box that converts analog yoke inputs to digital and the FBW system. The data isn't encrypted and as long as it's valid data it's accepted in to the system.
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might as well be encrypted to the average turr'wrist. You need the proprietary software which views, doesn't edit, and even if you had a programer figure all that out and get it to edit you'd need to type faster than the yoke sends information (probably 20-30x per s) and isn't there more than one computer for the FWB and more than one input (I'm going off memory) and the system uses a comparitor to shun bad data?
 
Maybe this one was hijacked in the traditional way and flown to the secret island so they can reverse engineer it and then carry out the attack described above on multiple B777s at once.

@jynxyjoe Love the Pinnacle Airlines training comment!
 
jynxyjoe said:
might as well be encrypted to the average turr'wrist. You need the proprietary software which views, doesn't edit, and even if you had a programer figure all that out and get it to edit you'd need to type faster than the yoke sends information (probably 20-30x per s) and isn't there more than one computer for the FWB and more than one input (I'm going off memory) and the system uses a comparitor to shun bad data?
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Yah. Still easier to get under the floor and yank on control cables.
 
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