It is easy to look at an specific accident, point out the limitations of the pilot on that occasion and conclude the best option is to eliminate the pilot. What is missing in that logic is the times the machine malfunctions and it is the pilot intervention that saves the day. It is the relationship between the number of those two types of occurrences that should determine if the pilot is removed or not. With current equipment there must be ten of thousands of human interventions that save the day for each one that makes the situation worse. We have a loooooong way to go before we get to break even.