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Re:When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? by WalterBright on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @01:13PM (#3320215)
The reason for accidents is usually an unanticipated combination of events. Unanticipated means an autopilot will not have been programmed to handle it.

There are many, many aviation disasters that were avoided because the pilot got creative.

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Re:When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? by adrianN on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @01:53PM (#3320416)
And there are a couple of disasters where the pilots didn't listen to their mechanical friends.
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