This may explain why, when planes crash — as two Boeing 737 Maxs have over the past five months — people immediately speculate about the folks in the cockpit. “Was it pilot error?” I am often asked by those who know my background as a former air accident investigator and the author of The Crash Detectives. The planes were not in jeopardy, but the pilots could not override the computer’s command, forcing the airplanes to dive. On land or in the air, modern technology consistently handles mundane, repetitious, complex, or mind-numbing tasks so we don’t have to. She is the author of two books on air accidents including the Penguin bestseller, The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters.

Source: Ethiopian News April 22, 2019 18:00 UTC