Flight simulators have been cited as having been used for training for the safety of aircraft accidents involving the real world. On 9 / 11 Commission in the United States in 2004 concluded that those responsible for flying planes into the World Trade Center and the Penon had used PC-based application for the training of flight simulators.
In 1999, the player Yuji Nishizawa briefly hijacked a Boeing 747 from Tokyo, stabbed to death the pilot and the flight of 1000 feet above the ground, before being submitted. Subsequently, the hijacker said he was a fan of flight simulator, which wanted to try a real aircraft.
Zacarias Moussaoui was one of the hijackers involved in the attacks of September 11, and a software simulation of the flight for his laptop when he was arrested. During the trial of Moussaoui, it was revealed that he had used the software for flight simulation to improve its ability to fly
In 2005, through an open letter, Jack Thompson, a former lawyer and activist anti-video games, Microsoft has been accused of aiding terrorists in the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator. The letter and the response of the sector has been widely reported in the media
Jermaine Lindsay, one of the four July 7 London 2005, could be used for flight simulators to practice flying an airliner with an accusation that he was registered as a virtual airline. A person with the same name, the list of its closest major airport of Heathrow and clock up 30 hours in two months with a virtual airline. The website has denied the link between the attack and said that he worked with the Metropolitan Police to establish if the former member was the bomber. The website said that it provides information on airlines, free software add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator does not provide flight instruction for its members