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Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash
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Posted in Enterprise Security, 20th August 2010 15:03 GMT
Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago.
Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport on a scheduled flight to Las Palmas on 20 August 2008. Just 18 survived the crash and subsequent fire aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft.
Spanair's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and this resulted in a failure to raise an alarm over multiple problems with the plane, according to Spanish daily El Pais.
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