Sitting in the Dark
Air France’s Flight 447 on 31 May 2009 began normally and ended terribly. I’m told it’s not easy to crash an Airbus 330 because of a complicated combination of hardware and software that interfaces pilot-plane interactions. Still, the black box recording of that doomed flight revealed that when all three pilots were faced with a problem not accommodated…
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