EAL401 can be argued as an early version of too much reliance on automatics. However, the far less automated SAS DC-8 that hit the water on approach to LAX one night was almost the same. Nobody was flying.
The Area Nav equipped ANZ DC-10 that hit Mt. Erebus was also rooted in unfounded reliance on automatics. The system had never let them down before. It was beyond their comprehension that a route coder would change the lat/lon of a waypoint without advising the crew.
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