Lame :
Mate I do well remember the DC-10 incident.
I would have liked to think we had at least learnt something since then.
Stillalbatros:
A more even field you say:
The price of a 767 tanker @ 150M??
Thanks for VILIFING my point for me.
Thats just it, the price you can produce something and sell it at with your markup is the price:
Does the US Govt subsidise Boeing.
And yes I am well aware of the contents of flt 427.
AB industries are on the record mate at stating they will be the first to have pilotless A/C, supporting an industry to rid ourselves of a job, have you any logic mate.
A question maybe someone can answer though, A colleage told me that Israel Airlines had their AB fleet modified so that this senario of loss of redundency could not happen??
IS THIS TRUE?.
The US military do and use the fact that they can, fly a UAV (and its F-----g huge) from the mainland USA , while it is on a mission in Iraq?.
With todays technology AB have the capability today to fly pilotless A/C, just customer acceptance thats all.
Human factors we are taught, and why?, when techno freeks and bean counters are not .