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Old 16th Aug 2011, 08:42
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Safety Concerns
 
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If this a/c had a yoke we would have seen an accident report not dissimilar to the one posted by jcjeant.

http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR75-13.pdf

The biggest problem here is analogue pilots flying digital a/c. And by that I do not mean remove the pilot from the cockpit but after more than 40 years of digital a/c that have more than proven their safety capabilities it is about time pilots stopped harping on about "old" a/c and moved into the 21st century.

The a/c are sound, the technology is sound, room for improvement yes. The A320 for example is actually one of the safest commercial airliners flying despite all the doom and gloom and the first lightning strike will send it spinning to the ground out of control crap that is often brought into the same sentence.
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