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Re:Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pi... by Someone1234 on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @10:20AM (#9458400)
A lot of newer aircraft have built in checklists now[0]. For a bunch of reasons (e.g. safety, automatic double-checking, and expedience).

Yes, it would be non-optimal if an aircraft had an issue without a handbook, but assuming that communications haven't been lost, someone on the ground can easily read out items.

[0] http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/april/i_ca...

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Re:Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pi... by cnvogel on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:35PM (#9460056)
...so what's the checklist to mitigate the situation "the monitor which normally displays the checklist on this airplane failed"... :-)
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