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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...

Vulnerability is a serious violation of federal law. >> as you know this guy chris roberts has not been arrested but has been interviewed at least a couple times by the fbi. as far as you know what is the status of the investigation right now? >> well, so his -- the fbi seized his electronics. he was on a flight going to syracuse, new york and the fbi met him at the end of the flight seized electronics, two laptops and i believe at this point they haven't done a forensic investigation of those they were looking for a sign to see if he connected to the network and issued any commands or manipul...

Year this coming winter. if we don't have that rebound year things are going to change. the face of agriculture in california is going to change probably forever. >> reporter: farmers argue growing food isn't the same as growing grass or filling a pool. that they've already absorbed bigger cutbacks than urban users are just now beginning to feel. it becomes a blame game that nobody wins. bret? >> the gao says passengers could take control of the commercial airliner by using a plane's wireless entertainment system to access its flight controls. the faa says it is working with government securit...

>> it's going to give us precisely the steps he took to drive that plane into the ground. when it is synced up with the voice recorder you will have a second by second picture, including the sounds and the manipulation of the flight controls that will show us exactly what he did. >> the data recorder was badly burned in the crash. is it possible investigators won't be able to retrieve the data from it? >> no. no the data recorder is very robust. it was scorched. the type of fire that could damage a data recorder is a long intense, high heat flame. that was not the case here. i think they'll ...

Hours professionally in the air, this doesn't seem odd. this just seems like a young pilot. they're saying he was able to set the flight controls from 38,000 feet, where it was at its cruising altitude to 100. that's a big reveal. >> what we can't do, thomas, is mistake experience for competency. you know the captain will be significantly experienced, possibly with tens of thousands of hours and obviously hugely competent. but there will be competency tests through training rigorous training, where they will have to do various checks. checks in the air, very very strenuous checks in the simula...