BERLIN, July 22: Some 30 European businesses and research institutes are working to create software that would make it possible from a distance to regain control of an aircraft from hijackers, according to a German news magazine.

The system ‘which could only be controlled from the ground would conduct the aircraft posing a problem to the nearest airport whether it liked it or not,” according to extracts from the latest issue of Der Spiegel.

“A hijacker would have no chance of reaching his goal.”

The project costs 45 million dollars, of which the European Commission is contributing 25 million dollars, and involves aircraft maker Airbus, electronics giant Siemens and the Technical University of Munich.—AFP