Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot
The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot until just before it went down in icy weather, indicating that the pilot may have ignored federal safety recommendations and violated the airline's own policy for flying in such conditions, an investigator said Sunday. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Flight control engineers and safety experts will be interested in this study. Iced up, damaged, or asymetric flaps are not commonly designed into civilian autopilots.