A monitoring and control system for manned vehicles is being proposed,
wherein an automatic early-on recognition of emergencies and an automatic
specification of measures to be taken in accordance with a separate
escalation assessment concerning the development of the emergency in
question are made possible, in that data packets comprising a vehicle
identification field, a time indicator field, a continuously updated
position field, a continuously updated vehicle-status field and a
pilot-confirmation field are either transmitted from the vehicle to a
ground station and evaluated there or is transmitted to the ground
station already having been evaluated, wherein continuous storing of the
data packets is carried out over a limited period of time in the ground
station when a first evaluation result is present; in the event of the
occurrence of a second particular evaluation result storing is carried
out over a longer period of time and at the same time a switchover signal
is transmitted to the vehicle, which switchover signal switches over the
control from being linked with the cockpit to being linked with the
autopilot control station control without being subject to influence by
the cockpit, and wherein switching back to the control means being linked
with the cockpit is only effected by a reset signal which again is not
subject to influence by the cockpit, which reset signal is generated by
the ground station, depending on a third particular evaluation result
concerning the pilot-confirmation field, and transmitted to the vehicle.