Autopilot on a Plane

Of the 269 people on board, 23 were active crew and six were dead head crew who were just, you know, hitching a ride. The plane was supposed to fly v. They had a heading, so theyweresuposed to fly va heading mode then switch over to inertial navigation system. But in this particular flight, when tit took off from anchorage, the vr beacons kind of wone od those way points that you would put into the inertial Navigation system. So it's like saying, you tell the plane, go west. In ha plane just kind of in a dumb fashion, goes west. O'Brien: Most flies jus like just stay