Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, was kicked off a United Airlines flight last month after tweeting about security vulnerabilities in its system. Wired published an extraordinary story: Feds Say that Banned Researcher Commandeered a Planes. He 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. 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.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/security-researcher-hijacked-plane/