Boeing has patent for autopilot tech
PETALING JAYA: When it was first speculated that
Flight MH370 could have been hijacked via remote control access, many
dismissed it as far-fetched science fiction.
But the technology to navigate planes, ships, trains, buses and
other vehicles by remote control has been around for about a decade.
The Boeing Company, the world’s leading aerospace company and the
largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, has
the technology.
It owns a patent for a system that enables remote controlling of its aircraft to counter hijacking attempts.
Boeing applied for the patent for an “uninterruptible autopilot control system” about 11 years ago, and was awarded it in 2006.
The system can be activated when the security of onboard controls are jeopardised.
“The method and systems of the present invention provide techniques
for automatically navigating, flying and landing an air vehicle,” states
the report for the US patent number US7142971B2.
Once activated, an aircraft could be automatically navigated, flown and made to land without input from anyone on board.
“Any onboard capability to supercede the automatic control system
may be disabled by disconnecting the onboard controls,” states the
report.
Power is provided to the automatic control system “from an
alternative power control element that is inaccessible (to anyone on
board the vehicle)”.
According to the patent report, control commands could be received
from a remote location and/or from predetermined control commands stored
on board the plane.
Boeing applied for the patent on Feb 19, 2003, barely two years
after the Sept 11 attack in which hijacked planes rammed into the World
Trade Centre, reducing the gigantic buildings into rubble.
Eric D. Brown, Douglas C. Cameron, Krish R. Krothapalli, Walter von
Klein Jr and Todd M. William invented the system for Boeing. The patent
was awarded three years later on Nov 28, 2006.
When the automatic control system is activated, no one on board the aircraft would be capable of controlling its flight.
The patent report also states that a signal might be transmitted to
at least one remote location from the plane to indicate that the
uninterruptible autopilot mode of the air vehicle has been engaged.
The system includes a dedicated communication link between the
aircraft and a remote location, distinct from any communication link
established for other types of communication.
According to an independent analyst James Corbett, the US Federal
Aviation Administration had reported on the Federal Registrar last
November that the Boeing 777-200, -300 and –300ER aircraft were equipped
with an electronics security system to check unauthorised internal
access.
Contributed by Sira Habibu The Star/Asia News Network
“Flight 370 Was Remote-Hijacked”
Author, barrister and political advisor Matthias Chang
A high-level Malaysian source has confirmed that missing Flight MH370 must have been hijacked by remote control.
Matthias Chang, a barrister who served as Political Secretary to the Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia,
Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, explained why only a remote-hijacking “fly by wire” scenario can explain the plane’s disappearance.
Read Matthias Chang’s MH 370 – A Sinister Tragedy In the Fog of Coincidence?
In an exclusive interview with
Truth Jihad Radio,
Chang – who remains well-connected with the highest political levels in
Malaysia – patiently explained why all of the evidence points to a
remote hijacking by one of the handful of countries capable of such a
technological feat. He expressed annoyance with Western media criticism
of the Malaysian government, arguing that it is Western governments, not
Malaysia’s, that are covering up what they know while the media fails
to ask the hard questions.
[The audio interview will be posted for
Truthjihad.com subscribers by this evening
here.]
During our interview on the morning of Friday April 4th (Malaysia
time) Matthias Chang told me: “I want to raise a point that has not been
much discussed in either the mainstream or alternative media, which is
that the technology of autopilot has been in existence for a long time.
Since September 11th, more sophisticated systems have been placed in all
planes to avoid any hijackings. If there is a hijacking in progress it
kicks in and flies to an airport to land safely. The system can be
triggered by the pilot himself from the cockpit, or it can be triggered
by ground control. And by ‘ground control’ I mean it can be operated
from land, an AWAC plane, or a ship, by an entity that has the
capability and technology to fly the plane remotely. That technology is
out there.”
Chang pointed out that only remote-hijacking can explain the plane’s
flight path: “This plane is flying for six hours on its own. Who’s
flying the plane? The entity flying the plane must be those with the
technology that’s used now to pilot drones. We know drones have been
flown in Afghanistan from Florida. We have seen video tapes and news
broadcasts about how ‘pilots’ in Florida are flying planes and drones in
Afghanistan as if they are playing computer games.”
Chang explained that the Western media’s pilot suicide hypothesis
“doesn’t hold water. If you’re a pilot, why turn back, go north to
Thailand where there are military exercises going on, and you will know
from the radar that other planes are flying, then turn south and fly for
six hours? That’s ridiculous. Also, most suicides leave notes
explaining why. This is another huge question mark. Why this accusation
of the pilot, when the facts are inconsistent with suicide?”
Suggesting that the Western countries have been leading the public on a wild goose chase, Chang explained:
“During the past four weeks, we have heard of various countries
providing data. Australia said there were two floating objects west of
Perth, but when ships were sent they were not found. France, also, said
they discovered two objects. When the search planes went, these too
couldn’t be found. The satellite of Thailand (a US client state) found
two objects. It was sea rubbish. This was followed by (US occupied)
Japan saying they found objects. But those objects were not MH370s. The
British firm Inmarsat, using its calculations, said the plane would have
crashed in the area where the objects were located. But subsequently
Boeing, doing new calculations projecting faster flight at lower
altitude, said the plane could have ended somewhere 1000 miles north of
the previously projected location.”
Were all of these people ordered to look in all the wrong
places – by a military high command that knows perfectly well where the
plane is?
Chang continues:
“Given all this information, it’s crystal clear, clear as day, that
the one country that has the most sophisticated surveillance technology
has remained mute. They may have given sealed evidence – I don’t know.
But no public announcement.
As VT Editor Gordon Duff says, a gnat has a hard time disappearing. So how can a 777 vanish?
“America has the most advanced satellites in the world…it can detect
an object the size of a coin, look at bunkers buried deep underground.
NROL 39 (the US National Reconnaissance Office) uses the octopus emblem.
It states clearly that enemies of America cannot hide because ‘nothing
is beyond our reach.’ The octopus’s tentacles encompass the whole globe.
I find it very odd that America has been reticent, conspicuously
silent, about what their satellites have shown, if anything.”
What makes it especially odd that the US will not admit it tracked
the plane is that the flight path involved some of America’s most
sensitive military areas:
“As MH370 reached the airspace of Vietnam it went north toward
Thailand where the US-run Cobra Gold and Cope Tiger military exercises
were being held. Then, allegedly, the plane ended in the Indian Ocean.
But there is no evidence or debris. Now what is conspicuous…is that when
a plane goes past Southern Thailand into the Indian Ocean, it has to
fly past a very important landmark: Diego Garcia, a secretive US
military base. It was from this base that the US launched bombers to
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam before that. Surely this base has some of
the most sophisticated surveillance technology. Any unidentified plane
that flew in the direction of Diego Garcia would certainly be located
and identified.”
Chang, the former top political advisor to the Prime Minister of
Malaysia, noted that the bizarre disappearance of MH370 coincided with
the US-run Cobra Gold and Cope Tiger military exercises – just as
previous “disasters” have mirrored suspiciously-timed drills and
exercises:
“On 9/11, when planes struck the Twin Towers and the
Pentagon, there were military exercises taking place, and NORAD and
others were confused about whether the planes were part of the exercise
or not.”
Chang was referring to the notorious
46 drills of September 11th 2001,
the biggest pre-designated National Security Special Event Day in US
history. Those exercises practiced and then mimicked every aspect of the
actual attacks, including a live-fly plane-into-building exercise that
shut down the National Reconnaissance Office and prevented NRO personnel
from seeing satellite images of whatever the alleged attack planes and
their military control planes, including the “Flying Pentagon” E-4B
Command Center aircraft, were really doing that day.
Chang noted that the 7/7/2005 London bombings – like 9/11– perfectly
mirrored drills that were occurring at exactly the same times and
places:
“On 7/7 in London, there was a bombing of underground stations, plus
the bus in Tavistock Square. Surprise surprise, four Muslim youth were
said to be responsible for the deaths and injuries. Yet on that very
day, there were terrorist bombing exercises at precisely the same four
locations.”
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Chang observed that Christopher Bollyn, whose book
Solving 9/11 implicates
Israel and its US agents in the worst terrorist attack in US history,
has discovered indications that the disappearance of MH370 might be
connected with another false-flag plot: “Bollyn exposed how, immediately
after the hijacking (of MH370), the Times of Israel put out propaganda
that the plane was hijacked by agents of Iran, then landed in Bangladesh
to weaponize the plane to carry out a diabolical attack like September
11th.” (Bollyn also discovered a suspicious “evil twin” of MH370 hidden
in an Israeli hangar – his article is linked
here.)
Chang said that the media’s focus on the search for the MH370′s black
box is a deception. “We’ve been diverted to look for the black box.
Bullshit! There are plenty of signals.” Chang asserts that both Boeing, a
leading US military contractor, and the Rolls-Royce company that makes
the plane’s engines, know exactly what happened to MH370, because they
are constantly fed signals giving them every significant detail about
all of their planes including exactly location, altitude, airspeed,
engine function, manual or autopilot, and so on.
Regarding Rolls-Royce, Chang said:
“As long as the engine is running, they monitor it. If anything goes
wrong with the engine for any reason, they land the plane and abort the
flight. There have been a couple of instances when Rolls-Royce detected
malfunctions and told the pilot to land as soon as possible due to the
malfunction.
“So for six hours or more, Rolls-Royce would have kept track of the
pings. Rolls-Royce would know where the plane’s going. Now I’m told,
rightly or wrongly, that in the protocol, Rolls-Royce may be prohibited
from disclosing this information.”
Likewise, Malaysia has been prevented from disclosing the sealed
evidence it has been provided by one or more unnamed countries – or even
the name of that country or countries.
But despite the gag order, Chang thinks the evidence speaks for
itself: “There is cyber war between these (larger) countries, and we
small countries are caught in the middle. I think the passengers were
collateral damage.”
Chang’s conclusion about Flight 370?
“Under the cover of the military exercises, something diabolical, something catastrophic, has happened.”
Sources Veterans Today Editor:
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other
broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the
New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and
other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San
Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He
currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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