Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. It is still a mystery what exactly happened to the plane but a shock theory was explored in 2019 Channel 5 documentary ‘Flight MH370’. The theory centres around the idea that a hijacker could have carried out a cyber-attack on the plane, accessing the aircraft’s network via a mobile phone or USB connection to the in-flight entertainment system.
Risk management consultant Dr Sally Leivesley suggested that the hypothetical hijacker could then have compromised the plane’s network with “malware” that creates phantom cockpit controls ... Read even more
