Good point Peter. Jim Lovell's remark is absolutely at odds with the accident report.
The crew thought the computers were still flying the plane and could get them out of trouble. But they weren't, and the crew's unwitting manual inputs thinking the automatics would calculate a best response caused the plane to stay stalled.
In that case, not just an over-reliance on automatics was a contributing factor, but a lack of understanding of them.
TT
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