Have just stumbled upon this on the net - makes interesting viewing I would say. After seeing this I would much rather have a pilot at the 'wheel' than a computer:-
http://www.break.com/index/autoplanecrash.html
With the new aircrafts being made with more reliance on computers, accidents like the one happened with an A320 of Air France where 5 people died and 50 injured. Airbus was introducing the Fly By Wire with a fully automated System, which was a huge technological jump and Air france partnered with this event.
The accident is surrounded with mystery as there have been a lot of glitches and AirBus and Air France and French Aviation Ministry have been quite tight lipped on this accident and what ever communication has come out, it seems stage managed.
http://www.airdisaster.com/investigations/af296/af296.shtml
Anyway the aircrafts of today are not fully automated and still relies on human pilots.
Another accident that can remember of is the SouthWest Airlines incident at Chicago Midwest Airport on 8th december 2005. where the pilot landed the aircraft on a runway filled with snow and the flight over ran the runway to crash on the airport wall and then stopped after hitting car on the road killing a 6 year old boy.
The reason, attributed was the Pilot relied toomuch on the OnBoard Computer and fed in information that was different from the ground reality.
Anyway... have look at the two links and decide...
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