Hacker admits hijacking plane mid-air

 

A security researcher hijacked an airplane's engines after hacking its in-flight entertainment system. The US security researcher, told FBI agents in February that he'd hacked in-flight entertainment systems on over a dozen flights and on one occasion hijacked an aircraft's thrust management computer and briefly altered its course.
He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights. Looks like the guy did the airlines a favour: have to be more carefully when making this planes