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Re:Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 ... by sand500 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @08:08PM (#39655950)
Some planes can land themselves now:

https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/#autoland

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Re:Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 ... by zettabomb on Saturday March 09, 2024 @08:28PM (#39656031)
Autopilot and autoland have been around for a while, but they still need to be set up by the pilot, only operate under certain conditions, and autoland in particular only works at some airports. This is probably not a solution, not for quite a while at least.
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Re:Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 ... by sand500 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:19PM (#39661760)
The Garmin autoland can automatically activate, determine which airport to land at communicate on ATC frequency to say it is going to land at X airport.
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