Another plane down.

[V8Ian]

It's been a shocking year for the industry.

Mystery surrounds final moments of Germanwings Flight 4U9525 - 9news.com.au

[V8Ian]

Is it getting to the point that pilots are relying too heavily on computers?

Only the quick thinking of a pilot averted a similar tragedy last year when a sister plane of the Germanwings jet suddenly lost altitude and nose-dived.

According to the European Air Safety Agency, a safety system designed to protect the jet reacted to incorrect data due to a faulty sensor.

Read more: Germanwings flight 4U9525 received safety warning months ago after sister plane went into tailspin | Daily Mail Online

Germanwings flight 4U9525 received safety warning months ago after sister plane went into tailspin | Daily Mail Online

[Eevo]

flying would be safer if the pilot was removed all togehter

[Chucaro]

Three days ago I read in an Spanish paper that a Lufthansa Airbus A321 on route from Bilbao to Munich the 5/11/14 had a massive computerized navigation system due to sensors frozen by extreme low temperatures.
The plane lost 3000 meters in a couple minutes and thanks to a quick reaction of the crew who switched of the computers to be able to control the plane manually.
If was not for the crew for sure will be another crush.
The news was published firsts by 'Der Spiegel'

[Eevo]

that would be the exception that proves the rule.

90% of crashes are attributed to pilot error.



just think of car "accidents"
99% of them are caused by the pilot (driver)

[Ean Austral]

Terrorism may be a factor.

Cheers Ean

[Chucaro]

I found a thread in English about the above case.
Eevo, this plane without pilots like you would like to see will be another fatal disaster.

Iced AoA sensors send A321 into deep dive

[Eevo]

Airplane accident statistics (world-wide) [31]
Year Number of accidents per one million departures
2009 4.1
2010 4.2
2011 4.2
2012 3.2
2013 2.8

[BigBlackDog]

What the statistics don't show and you don't hear about is the times when pilot intervention stops accidents, and I mean long before it gets that far. Variables such as weather and traffic that the systems can struggle to work with because they aren't so black and white.

[Eevo]

Terrorism may be a factor.

Cheers Ean

first ive heard that mentioned. got a link?