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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. >> reporter: roberts claims on multiple occasions he reached under one of the passenger seats to what's call...

Into flames as it nose dived into a parking lot. it crashed shortly after takeoff just north of san antonio. the cause isn't known this morning. the couple killed in this crash would have celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary on thursday. >> a possibly really disturbing event in the skies. a new problem for anybody who flies here we need to think about. hackers. a computer security expert is claiming to have taken over a united plane's engine controls and made it briefly fly side ways. abc's kendis gibson has more on this story. >> reporter: the fbi investigating a frightening possibility...