Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot

Seattle Post Intelligencer, AP by Larry Neumeister | Feb. 15, 2009 (News Report)

The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot until just before it went down in icy weather, indicating that the pilot may have ignored federal safety recommendations and violated the airline's own policy for flying in such conditions, an investigator said Sunday. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 15, 2009

The press always wants to analyze a crash immediately; the NTSB careful analysis should be waited for to make conclusions.

Flight control engineers and safety experts will be interested in this study. Iced up, damaged, or asymetric flaps are not commonly designed into ... More »

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