Originally Posted by
slast
Megan, thanks for the links - I wasn't aware of the A320 one. Of course what none of these reports can say is what would likely happened if there had been no crew intervention at all, and the automated systems just been allowed to continue doing their thing.
It’s not just the incidents that are reported in the press and are known to the world.
What about the probably 100 incidents a day worldwide that we never hear of where an airliner suffers an autopilot malfunction and the pilots simply disconnect, manually fly and then just write up the defect in the tech log? Or any other system defect automation can’t handle and again all that is written about it is a tech log entry?