Published On:
Sun, May 17th, 2015
Security researcher tells FBI he took control of a commercial airliner – even making it fly sideways – by hacking into the entertainment system
Chris Roberts told FBI agent he had hacked flight entertainment systems
- He compromised such systems up to 20 times from 2011 to 2014, he said
- On one flight he ‘overwrote aircraft’s thrust management computer code’
- He then managed to ‘issue climb command and turn the plane sideways’
- Despite FBI interviews in February and March, Roberts was not charged
- However, agency confiscated two of his laptops and several hard drives
- Roberts was kicked off United Airlines flight in April after a ‘tweet threat’
- He had told followers that he might hack the aircraft’s onboard systems
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