Reply to post: Re: Aircraft autopilot ... terrain-following radar to avoid collisions.

Oddly enough, when a Tesla accelerates at a barrier, someone dies: Autopilot report lands

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Re: Aircraft autopilot ... terrain-following radar to avoid collisions.

Are there any more recent inadvertent controlled flights into terrain that might provide useful for this discussion?

Here you are. Looking at a few of the recent crashes classed under CFIT that involved modern airliners, they were all caused by crew ignoring or responding too slow or incorrectly to warnings.

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