I was wondering why anyone would go through all that trouble if s/he already had that level of control of the plane?
Good to have someone more knowledgeable explain that I'm not necessarily crazy.
Good to have someone more knowledgeable explain that I'm not necessarily crazy.
Car bombings still happen sometimes but it’s much easier to just shoot someone or push them off a balcony.
That he was killed by manipulating the data bus seems entirely speculative and exceedingly unlikely. If you have that kind of access to the plane you can plant a bomb or if you just want to down the plane Russia has potent anti-air weapons which trivially can take down a sub sonic passenger jet.
The chances of a attack like this being undetectable are exceedingly low. You would likely need to compromise nearly every aspect of the plane to make sure you have suppressed every available cross-checking mechanism. Does not stop it from happening, but it would not, in any way, be some sort of magic assassin weapon.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103_bombing_inve...
It wasn't the super deep check of the debris that pointed them to a bomb,it was a process that started with watching debris on primary radars fall away from a point where a moment before a transponder was squawking, it was finding the pressure spike on VCR and FDR, it was finding explicit explosion-affected parts, which guided which parts to reconstruct in 3D (very rare thing to do), and to finally find remains of the bomb itself.
I think there is concern there with undiagnosable crashes, but also a more pronounced concern with hijacking. If you have access to the plane you can just plant a bomb. With this you could capture the plane for hostage or turn it into a missile.