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Air India Autopilot Incident

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Nothing would surprise me Garry 8)
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That's what worries me Ben

Is the state of the art on modern computerised airliners such that the pilots are forgetting what a dangerous environment flying is...a complete loss of a sense of reality if indeed the modern pilots ever had a proper sense of reality.

Aeroflot A.310 springs to mind.
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The spokesman said that "due to distraction the co-pilot touched the auto-pilot disconnect button momentarily". "But the same was connected back," he added.
Visions of 'Airplane' come to mind :lol:

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Maybe it was Roger the flight attendant?
I wouldn't like to travel by air in India...train ops are dodgy too, but at least on rail you're not far from the ground.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... -cpl-exams

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/world ... india.html

Scary stuff.
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