Article on AVweb. Closing para,
I don’t often speculate on such things but if I were a betting man—and I’ve been known to dabble at the tables—my bet is that the accident investigation will once again revisit a familiar theme: automation bias. In the name of safety shaped by consistent procedures driven by automation in the cockpit, pilots are increasingly losing their basic feel for putting hands on controls and throttles and actually flying a flyable airplane. A second focus will be the utter perversity of how pilots now have to be trained to keep the automation that’s supposed to help them from killing them instead.
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