Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

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Originally Posted by MungoP

So, what I'm asking is, does modern technology prevent/resist/over-ride a pilot from flying an aircraft in the most basic sense once the autopilot system has been disconnected ? And I say again: I'm not suggesting that this is relevant to this particular accident.

Read the Lion air preliminary report. The AP was not engaged during the flight. The MCAS system was interfering with the manual flight and kept for the most time triming nose down. The only thing that would have saved them where the trim cut out switches they did not switch off.