International Civil Aviation Organization.

Protecting Civil Aviation from Cyberattacks

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for civil aviation, although the significance of reports in May that a computer security researcher hacked into aircraft control systems while flying as a passenger aboard commercial jets is still unclear. The probe into the alleged hacking incidents unfolded just weeks after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Transportation Security Administrat...

Toxicological Findings from 1587 Civil Aviation

CHATURVEDI AK, CRAFT KJ, CANFIELD DV, WHINNERY JE. Toxicological findings from 1587 civil aviation accident pilot fatalities, 1999–2003. Aviat Space Environ Med 2005; 76:1145–50. Introduction: The prevalence of drug and ethanol use in aviation is monitored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Under such monitoring, toxicological studies for the 1989–1993 and 1994–1998 periods indicated...

Aeronautical Ad Hoc Network for Civil Aviation

Aeronautical communication systems are constantly evolving in order to handle the always increasing flow of data generated by civil aviation. In this article we first present communication systems currently used for en-route aircraft. We then propose Aeronautical Ad hoc NETwork (AANET) as a complementary communication system and demonstrate its connectivity and assess the throughput by simulati...

Historical development of civil aviation medical standards.

Risk assessment techniques for civil aviation security

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