A framework to mitigate airliner risk in air traffic management

Threatened by hijacking or suicide-by-pilots, the airliner may either crash itself or be shot down due to its potential for suicide attack. To save persons on board, some researches allow air traffic controllers or federal agents to take over authority for airliner piloting. Though rarely, an air traffic controller may possibly misuse this privilege and then attack airliners, too. In this paper, to mitigate such risks , we propose a framework which is composed of a few critical components based on existing cryptographic schemes. Experiments are designed to simulate the real world cases and results demonstrate that our solution is efficient and feasible for current air traffic management.