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RAF pilot sacked for sending Airbus Voyager into sudden dive

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Re: Interesting

Yes, some of us remember the "Russian" Airbus which crashed in Siberia when the pilot let his son sit behind the stick. I can to some "extent" understand that father. I have stood behind the wheel of a ship aged eight, when my father was a captain and I have let my son behind the helm of a yacht too, and I can understand all of that. But in that case, over Siberia, everything went wrong, and had they just let the "stick" alone the plane would have tried to saved itself, but as it was, they were overriding the system pulling the stick. This topic between automation and too much automation and education will not disappear ever.

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