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Old 14th April 2004 | 22:36
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Maxiumus
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An initial read of the thread subject and indeed the first paragraph of the article would lead you to believe ATC landed the aircraft. The article is not very clear at all in fact, but what happened seems to be that the usual ATC instructions were delivered via data link and the aircraft was still flown by the pilots, via the AP, as per usual. Its a new means of comms, not of actually controlling the aircraft.