Chris Roberts, a cybersecurity consultant, has told the US FBI that he has hacked into computer systems onboard aircraft in flight up to 20 times and had even managed to control an aircraft engine during a flight. Roberts was arrested by the FBI in April following a United Airlines flight to Syracuse, New York, when he had posted on Twitter that he was planning to hack into the aircraft he was currently traveling on. Roberts, who is under investigation for possible computer crimes, told FBI that he had hacked into in-flight entertainment systems aboard aircraft 15 to 20 times from

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