as well as towards the difference between an honest mistake and a violation. Which, in turn, often translates into reluctance to fly manually on part of many crews. It gets to the point where even some instructors frown upon pilots flying manually above 1000 feet AAL
So true. Some pilots are lost without the automatics as their crutch. In this incident the captain hastily re-engaged the automatic pilot about three minutes after starting the badly executed manually flown go-around.
And who can forget the tragic crash into the sea of the Flash Air Boeing 737-300 following a night departure from Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The aircraft slowly rolled to 111 degrees and 43 degrees nose down after the autopilot was disconnected within a few minutes after takeoff.
The CVR recorded the voice of the captain repeatedly shouting to the copilot to engage the autopilot even though the 737 was rolling past the vertical. Automation dependency at its worst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_..._of_the_flight
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