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Boeing preps pilotless passenger flights – once it has solved the Sully problem, of course

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Re: There's something fundamentally important they're missing.

> Take the old classic of the perfectly Airbus that ran off the end of a runway in Poland.

From your description, it sounds like the one where the pilot made a really smooth landing. A bit too smooth in fact.

Since then, procedure has been changed and the advice is to go for a firm landing on contaminated runways. There were also other recommendations concerning other aspects related to runway design, maintenance and monitoring.

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