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GeekFurious t1_ja74iw8 wrote

Interestingly enough, Mentour Pilot JUST had a video about an incident where the pilots thought they were on autopilot until they reached about 28,000 feet when the plane started to bank too much and the captain overreacted and forced the plane into an unrecoverable dive.

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WannaGetHighh t1_ja861vb wrote

That specific pilot had let his kid sit in the cockpit and play with the controls and then didn’t realize the auto pilot got turned off. Bit more ignorance than mistake imo

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GeekFurious t1_ja86ujg wrote

Different incident.

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WannaGetHighh t1_ja870ih wrote

Damn that’s a rough mistake to make

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GeekFurious t1_ja87jgo wrote

Yeah. But if you watch the whole video, this captain had a lot of issues with following the rules and handling incidents well.

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BeKind_BeTheChange t1_jaamuu2 wrote

How sad. If he would have just let the auto pilot take over they would have pulled out of it.

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GeekFurious t1_jabouil wrote

A lot of accidents in the past few decades happened because the captain skirted the rules and seemingly didn't think they needed to follow basic checklists.

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