Plane crash lawyer Jonathan C. Reiter weighs in on a recent assessment by the National Transportation Safety Board concerning the Asiana Flight 214 crash last year.
Source: ABC News “Investigators Eye Aircraft Controls in Accident” JOAN LOWY and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press, Jun 24, 2014.
“The Asiana flight crew “over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand,” said Chris Hart, the NTSB’s acting chairman.
“In their efforts to compensate for the unreliability of human performance, the designers of automated control systems have unwittingly created opportunities for new error types that can be even more serious than those they were seeking to avoid,” Hart said”
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New York Based Attorney Jonathan C. Reiter States:
“It is impossible to eliminate the human factor in piloting an airplane. Automatic computerized controls built into modern commercial aircrafts need to be predictable so that pilots do not have unexpected consequences caused by misunderstanding what the computer is going to do during flight. Maintaining proper air speed during landing is basic to piloting an aircraft safely.
In this case, multiple pilots in the cockpit were fooled into believing that the automatic pilot would maintain proper airspeed, when in fact the computer was not doing so. There was clearly something faulty in the interface between the pilots and the computerized system.”
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