‘Automation Addiction’: Is Technology Weakening Pilots’ Skills?
Safety officials say that hundreds of deaths in airline crashes over the past five years are attributable to pilots who have become too dependent on computerized fight controls, forgetting how to react in certain situations. Although fatal airline accidents have decreased dramatically over the past 10 years, the International Air Transport Association reports that some
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‘Automation Addiction’: Is Technology Weakening Pilots’ Skills?
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