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May 3 11 12:11 PM
Capone wrote: Excellent! Well done! From what I've heard the persistent search for the black boxes almost 2 years after the accident is a hefty lawsuit. CL, not sure if you saw it, but there was an interesting documentary on this crash. The theory is that the equipment used to measure the velocity had frozen up, which caused the auto pilot to disengage in really bad weather (because supposedly the entire auto pilot system relies on the speed of the plane - any truth to this?). The pilots apparently did not have enough experience to know how to fly the plane manually. So they crashed. Hence the lawsuit.The documentary ended by commenting that commercial air pilots should have more experience flying planes manually (like the old-school pilots). I recall speaking with a pilot who basically told me the same thing = he's there just to babysit the computer who basically does everything (including landing and taking off). Scary stuff if you ask me!
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