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> Have planes equipped with remote control that can override pilots in extreme situations.

Given the baseline security of these sorts of systems, this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Yeah, we just grounded an entire aircraft fleet for a few years due to systems overriding pilots.

Due to systems not designed properly and with improper regulatory oversight. Also, these systems were overriding these decisions autonomously, not through human intervention.

A defeatist take.

Most incidents start with the systems failing and the pilots being the fallback. It’s not clear how, 1. A remote system would not be immune to this, and 2. How a remote system would be good if the systems are failing and probably producing bad readings

What security? How do you people imagine this would even be online connected to the Internet?

Air gapping from the internet is the least of the worries. You haven't solved the problem, and created a handful more.

Elaborate, please, otherwise it’s just an opinion. How is not being connected to the Internet source of a handful more security issues, or any other issues.

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