Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane | WIRED

Read more here: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/

The main part to know:

Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, told the FBI agent during an interview in February that he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight. He was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course, the document states...

That would seem to be a pretty big 7.. and a turning point in the dangers aviation is about to be hit with...