Dangers of Automation in Airliners

The award-winning journalist delves "e;into the confluence of modern airplane technology and pilot behavior to probe how and why flight disasters happen"e; (BookTrib). Aviation automation has been pushed to its limits, with pilots increasingly relying on it. Autopilot, autothrottle, autoland, flight management systems, air data systems, inertial guidance systems. All these systems are only as go...