US authorities are looking into whether a cyber security professional was actually able to hack into the computer system of a plane and control the engines.
Chris Roberts, a cybersecurity consultant, was detained by the FBI in April 2014 following a United Airlines flight to Syracuse, New York, after officials saw tweets he had posted in which he mentioned hacking into the plane on which he was travelling. Subsequent to his arrest, he allegedly told the FBI he had hacked into the computer…
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