[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Duress
On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
> At 2:49 PM 3/3/96 -0500, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
>
> >As a side remark, every burglar alarm connected to a phone that I've ever seen
> >has this feature: a code that one can type under duress that will both turn
> >off the alarm and call for help. I wonder how many users will remember this
> >code when under duress.
>
> The air-transport system has had a Hijack transponder code for years. The
> pilot dials it into the air traffic system radar transponder when the plane
> is hijacked.
Of course, all smart air piracy buffs know the transponder code is 7600,
and refuse to allow the pilots to use it.
> However there is a problem.
>
> One of the private pilot magazines reported that a small plane operator
> used the code (because his airplane was, in fact, being hijacked). When he
> landed the airplane, it was surrounded by LEA, and in the ensuing gun
> battle, everyone on the airplane died. The went on to say that the safety
> of the passengers and airplane are the pilot's primary responsibility and
> that pilots should consider this incident when deciding to use the code.
>
> Duress codes need to be designed to minimized the chance of such responses
> when they are used.
>
> Regards - Bill
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting
> (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave.
> [email protected] | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
>
>
>
---
My prefered and soon to be permanent e-mail address: [email protected]
"In fact, had Bancroft not existed, potestas scientiae in usu est
Franklin might have had to invent him." in nihilum nil posse reverti
00B9289C28DC0E55 E16D5378B81E1C96 - Finger for Current Key Information