and commandeer an aircraft. aviation correspondent rene marsh is outfront in washington. this is a terrifying report when you read through it because among many things, the hacker doesn t actually even have to be onboard the plane to take it down. absolutely right, erin. this report says that these airplanes are connected to the internet, and the planes are basically flying routers which can be compromised by someone who is on the plane or someone who is on the ground. now, this is all based on interviews with cybersecurity experts aviation experts. they essentially all agree that using a laptop someone in theory, as you mentioned, could commandeer an aircraft, put a virus into the flight control computers. jeopardize the safety of the flight by taking control of the plane s computers, or they could even take over warning systems or even navigational systems. the report also explains that you know as the air traffic control system is upgraded to
these standards and really develop a threat model so they can defend against it. it s scary because the report says it s possible. this is one of the key things i noticed. someone on the plane or on the ground could hack into the flight control systems. to me that s a game changer in a lot of waz, not least of which is the fact a terrorist can take down a jet without having to be onboard. without having to be willing to kill yourself to do it. not like 9/11 where they had to get past security and go through that process and be willing to die themselves. doesn t that raise the risk there would be a lot more people wanting to try this? absolutely. raises the risk exponentially and globally because so much relies on this satellite-based system, and literally, on the fact that it is a flying router. and because of that it s not just in the united states, but it s literally potentially limitless. someone intends on doing harm could reach aircraft around the world through the satellite a
japan, the latest air scare in a region rattled by aviation disasters. pretty scary. when you think about some of these cases, so clearly pilot error. in san francisco, pilot error. tiaiwan taiwan, pilot error. it was a very bad weather. yeah japan has had record rainfall in recent days erin. however, at the time of this crash, it was not raining at the hiroshima airport and there were right winds which is wi they re looking at the pilot, the trujiktry of the plane when it went down. and we got new information. they re saying 27 people were hurt here. there were two americans on the flight. and to think of all these repeated incidents in the last 13 months it is frightening for passengers who are flying here knowing that new pileots are being hired all the time and these takeoffs and landings the most dangerous time of the flight when there s a chance something can go wrong. when something has gone wrong in each of these cases. will thank you very much. reporting live from tokyo.
it hit the runway and just exploded. seems like the wheels broke. investigators are looking into early reports the airliner may have hit an antenna on the runway. airbus is also investigating. ashiana is the same airline that suffered a disastrous landing in san francisco in 2013. flight 214 s pilot botched the approach and landing of this boeing 777, killing three people and injured 187 others. the crash raised serious safety questions about pilot training and procedure and asia s booming airline industry. this latest hard landing is the sixth serious incident involving asian-based airlines in the past 13 months including february s crash of transasia flight 235. pilots turned off the wrong engine, sending the plane careening over a taiwan bridge. 43 people died. it s still too soon to know if pilot error played a role in
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