Exploding Pagers (General)
United Airlines flight UA2428, a Boeing 757-224, responded to a TCAS RA and two passenges were injured.TCAS RA = Traffic collision avoidance system
Injured how? That would be nice to know. Did it phantom react? You'd hope they weren't injured when they hit something.
Now there's something a bad person might really want to fuck with.
Absolutely. Would also look frightening in the movie. It's open to a bad person, but it's also open to the machine going rogue whilst we become lulled into ineffectuality. We're handing over the keys. You can't just change your mind later, get 'em back.
Planes have long had auto-pilot - they now have auto-land - they have pioneered driverless technology. For that reason they make for an interesting window into the history of AI's subsumption of humanity.