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Took control of a commercial flight system. according to the fbi, roberts told investigators that all he does is reach under one of the passenger seats to the seat electronics box, plugs his laptop in and hacks into the planes entertainment system. that allows him to connect to the flight and navigation systems on the plane. the fbi seized his electronics in april after he tweeted about possibly activating the oxygen masks on a flight from denver to chicago. before that roberts went to the the f...

Improve aviation security. >> reporter: its an aviation nightmare, a passenger plane in mid flight makes a move sideways controlled not by pilots in the cockpit but a passenger seated in the cabin. this man, a cyber security consultant chris roberts, tells the fbi he did just that to expose airline vulnerability. he said he issued a command that quote, caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or size ways movement of the plane. >> absolutely a flight crew would notice e...

Controlled not by the pilots in the cockpit, but by a passenger seated in the cabin. this man, chris roberts, a cyber security consultant tells the fbi he did just that to expose aircraft cyber vulnerabilities. in this affidavit, roberts says he issued a command that "caused one of the airplane engines to climb, resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane." >> absolutely a flight crew would notice extraneous input to their airplane albeit engine controls or flight controls. >> repor...