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Computer? one person says he has. did he do it and could terrorist do it too? we have more. >> reporter: computer expert chris roberts claims he hacked into a commercial airline's cockpit flight controls. >> it is definitely possible to manipulate the electronics to get to the i'veive i'veonics of an airplane. >> he said he hacked into the flight management times in as many as 20 times and caused one of the airplanes to claim resulting in lateral movement. >> i don't believe it. >> reporter: two government sources close to the investigation tell nbc news initial data analysis shows no proof of...

Hour, french provided satellite, nothing confirmed yet, satellite indications of possible debris. rick, in light of your experience on airplane recovery and your own book "finding malia" and significance of the satellite data, where would you place the progress of the search now? >> we don't have you there, sorry. we don't have you, rick. why don't i make that to kip darby, you're a pilot yourself, the new information, how much does it help us with assets here? >> i agree there's nothing to indicate the pilots. from a technical point of view, flight management does allow you put in a new route...

Working, it turned. we don't know the facts as they stand now, if it could have been some other nefarious microwave technology within the flight path. >> don't we know it was altered by computer command? >> no, sean, they don't know. all they know is the plane turned, they can't know on the ground unless they have the black boxes that the plane was taken off the flight management -- >> i'm only telling you what "the new york times" is saying. the flight was altered by manual command not computer controls. >> how could they know that? they would only know that if they had the black boxes in the...

So this airplane, it's not clear whether it flew directly over the waypoints or it just got near them. >> right. is this consistent -- i can actually draw on here. so if the activity was this way and goes this way and changes or regardless of that, does that indicate that somebody is punching those coordinates into the cockpit somehow or that they are coming close to the waypoints that that's the reference that we know roughly where they were? >> well, that's an excellent question. if this airplane were flying on a flight management come cuter system and the waypoints were put in, the airplane...

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