9 Frightening Airplane Facts Your Pilot Won’t Tell You
| March 26, 2015
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3. They Don’t Technically Need the Pilots
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Airplane technology is so advanced that planes could literally fly themselves. Even though a computer-generated landing would result in a much softer and precise return to earth, airlines continue to allow the pilots the control just to make them feel important… and for other reasons I’m sure. Not sure which is scarier — being in the hands of a human who could potentially fall asleep, or being in the hands of a computer that does everything perfectly.
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