Boeing wants to create a system to protect aircraft from intentional crashes

The American aerospace company Boeing plans to create a system to protect its aircraft from accidental and intentional crashes, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing informed sources.

As the newspaper writes, in the wake of the Flydubai incident, Boeing executives are discussing the threat of intentional crashes as one of the leading causes of fatal accidents in commercial aviation. The company wants to take this risk into account when developing the next generation of aircraft.

"While Boeing plans to give pilots final control over how the new planes fly... the aircraft's advanced computers are expected to have new automated safety systems that could make it more difficult to crash, either accidentally or intentionally."

The newspaper recalls that back in 2006, Boeing patented a remote autopilot system for its aircraft. In the event of a hijack attempt, it would deactivate the pilots' control of the aircraft. However, as the newspaper writes, such systems were never implemented on passenger aircraft due to the risk of hacking.

Boeing declined to comment to the newspaper on the issue of preventing intentional crashes, but said it supports legislative initiatives in Congress regarding the mental health of pilots.

A Flydubai airline plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30 signaled an emergency and some time later made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The airline later confirmed that a fight broke out between the pilots during the flight. Later, information appeared in the media that one of the pilots injured the second and wanted to cause a plane crash. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by passengers on that flight.